This time next year, citizens of Michigan will likely have the legal right to smoke marijuana. Employers here and in other states that haven’t already legalized it need to get ready.
I wrote about this on the National Driller blog in the summer of 2017, specifically talking about areas that allow medical marijuana. Almost 30 states allow that. Anecdotally, medical pot makes hiring people to run heavy equipment much harder. Even with the hoops patients have to jump through to get it, it stands to reason that states with medical marijuana have much more broad use. In a Web poll accompanying that blog post, one in five respondents said finding applicants who can pass drug screening makes hiring tougher.