With WA and CO now legal
How are they handling the ridiculously inaccurate pee test for pot? It does not test "under the influence" as the officials claim. It tests for metabolite traces from the past.This can lead to all sorts of false "under the influence" positives which in turn can affect the outcomes of driver's licenses, workplace, hiring, etc...
I realize it has always been this way.
My suspicion has always been and remains today that the alcohol and drug testing industry plus the part of our legal system that makes bank from busting pot users loves having this vague test. More people are swept up in the net = more money.
In 1996 my workplace enacted the DOT 49 CFR rules where we were subject to random testing based on our having a commercial driver's license. Doesn't matter that we only drive once in a blue moon. The dude who taught the "class", which was required by the Feds to start the program, was from a drug testing company. He looked government with his badge and all but he was 100% private and for profit. 
Anyway...his class was like the movie Reefer Madness. He claimed that the pee test was an under the influence test and that marijuana influenced pilots three days after being exposed to a room full of marijuana smoke. That these pilots could not land a flight simulator on a white line three days later.
So we can land a rover on Mars but we can't have a real-time under the influence test for pot?
I smell something.
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