By Phillip Smith North Carolina’s Republican Gov. Pat McCrory last month vetoed a welfare drug testing bill championed by his own party in the legislature, saying it
By Phillip Smith North Carolina Gov. Robert McCrory (R) Thursday vetoed a welfare drug testing bill pushed through the legislature by his Republican colleagues. Drug
By Phillip Smith The ACLU of Illinois Thursday filed a class-action lawsuit against the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) over its policy requiring drug testing of residents in
By Doug Fine As it has with thousands of PTSD patients nationwide, cannabis gave 32-year-old Augustine Stanley his life back. Already a decorated veteran, already
By Phillip Smith The Republican-controlled Michigan House Friday approved a bill that would allow for the suspicion-based drug testing of welfare recipients. The bill, House Bill
A new study conducted at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research has found that random drug testing in schools – something 28% of American students
Every dispensary worker that I know got into the industry because they were a patient prior to becoming employed, and used to frequent the establishment.
By Phillip Smith, StopTheDrugWar.Org Bills that would force welfare applicants and recipients to undergo drug testing are moving in the state legislatures in Austin and
New statistics claim massive rise in pre-employment drug test positives, when in fact testing technology has just gotten harder to fool.
By Phillip Smith, StopTheDrugWar.Org The Kansas Senate approved a bill requiring welfare and unemployment benefits recipients to undergo drug tests if there is “reasonable suspicion”
By Phillip Smith, StopTheDrugWar.Org The Republican-controlled Indiana House voted overwhelmingly Monday to approve a “reasonable suspicion” drug testing bill for welfare recipients. House Bill 1483 advanced to the
By Phillip Smith, StopTheDrugWar.Org The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta Tuesday upheld a preliminary injunction blocking Florida’s 2011 law requiring welfare applicants to
By Dan Viets, J.D., SMCR Board Chair A series of new crimes involving “altering or falsifying” drug tests would be created if House Bill 38
by Phillip Smith With states facing severe budget pressures, bills to require drug testing to apply for or receive public benefits — welfare, unemployment benefits,
By Phillip Smith Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) has quietly signed a bill that would require state employees to undergo random, suspicionless drug testing. His
The use of herbal products containing synthetic cannabinoid agonists are popular among consumers because they are seldom detectable on standard workplace drug screens, according to
by Phillip Smith The Chicago Housing Authority wants to require all current and future adult residents–including senior citizens–to pass a drug test. A positive drug
By Phillip Smith Florida welfare applicants and recipients, mostly women with children, will now have to undergo drug tests at their own expense to receive
By Phillip Smith A Missouri bill that mandates the drug testing of welfare recipients and applicants if case workers have “reasonable suspicion” they are using
By Phillip Smith A new political action group formed to protest Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) new drug testing policy for state employees is sending
On Thursday the Oregon Supreme Court upheld a ruling that allowed employers to terminate employees for participating in the state approved medical marijuana program. As
A saliva test or a mouth swab drug test is a form of drug testing in which an employer, parent, or law official will swab
Many of you have read in Ninjasmoker’s ‘Stoner Friendly Links’ that medical marijuana patient Joseph Casias was fired from a Michigan WalMart last week for
A question that I often hear is ‘Now that I have my medical marijuana card, I can’t be fired for failing a drug test, right?’
