Cannabis legalization has changed a lot of things — dispensaries are open, products are regulated, and millions of adults now purchase cannabis as casually as a bottle of wine.
But step into a job interview and the rules suddenly feel stuck in a different decade.
Across North America, employees can legally buy cannabis on the weekend and still fail a workplace drug test on Monday. The contradiction has left many workers asking the same question: if weed is legal now, why are companies still testing for it?
In this article, we break down the surprising reason workplace policies haven’t caught up with legalization, why cannabis drug tests don’t actually measure impairment, and how cannabinoids like CBD are adding new complexity to an already outdated system.
