Marijuana, Man

Marijuana is the most common and most easy to get drug on the market today. Because its affect on the human body is downplayed by everyone, from adults to pre-teen kids, the vast majority of civilized society doesn’t consider it to be that dangerous or that much to worry about. Drug and alcohol testing, of course, doesn’t agree with this approach, but that doesn’t mean that workers don’t try to get away with what they can as often as they can. This is due to the lack of seriousness given to “weed,” as many call it.

Marijuana, Mary Jane and Weed, as the names call it is a very addictive substance because, like alcohol, it takes the edge off of stress. Like any drug it provides an escape for people who do not want to deal with their lives. Sometimes, if an employee tests positive during drug and alcohol testing, it is due to a temporary situation in their lives which may not return in the form of substance abuse. In this case, having a multiple strike company policy is particularly beneficial to employees. However, sometimes, taking the edge off becomes a lifestyle, and marijuana is used as a “gateway drug” to harder stuff, because soon our bodies become adjusted to the new norm created by abusing marijuana all the time. In this case, Mary Jane has taken another victim, so to speak, and such behavior will show up more than once during drug and alcohol testing.

Businesses have to be careful about who they allow into their workforce. In many cases, companies do not have a standard system for employee evaluation that is as effective as standard workplace drug testing and alcohol testing. In many cases, this is simply due to ignorance about the matter in which they stand. Employees cannot be predicted or read in any other way than through drug screening, and Mediscreen makes all of this possible through the convenient use of onsite drug & alcohol testing. Workplace drug testing laws are part of this attempt to standardize these systems, but many companies choose to use employee screening just because it seems to work and it seems to save them a lot of money. It does, on both accounts.

This article has been taken from : http://www.mediscreen.net.au/articles/marijuana-man/