Even before Maryland legalized recreational marijuana earlier this month, people who used cannabis could apply for certain jobs at Amazon and pass preemployment drug screening.
Amazon has excluded marijuana from such tests for the past two years. The online giant made the decision partly to stay consistent with its testing across the U.S. as more states moved toward legalization.
But Amazon and other employers are sticking with other rules, even as Maryland and other states start recreational cannabis industries. Amazon delivery workers, for instance, face a zero-tolerance policy for at-work impairment.
While Maryland’s law, which took effect July 1 for people 21 and older, prohibits the smoking of cannabis in public places, it stops short of addressing use or impairment in the workplace or drug screening of workers or prospective hires.
Instead, “individuals remain subject to any existing laws and workplace policies on substance or cannabis use,” said Tia Lewis, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Cannabis Administration, in an email.
That can include federal rules prohibiting operating commercial vehicles while impaired or any workplace prohibitions against impairment or cannabis use specifically.
Maryland is one of 23 states, plus Washington, D.C., to have legalized recreational cannabis. But the drug remains illegal under federal law. The federal Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 required federal contractors and those receiving federal grants to ensure a drug-free workplace...
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