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Re:Marijuana testing of job applicants is barred by NYC by rjf72 on Friday April 12, 2019 @04:52AM (#19643179)
Your comment is ambiguous here, but this ban is giving marijuana special treatment. It's completely legal to test your employees for e.g. alcohol use and refuse to hire them if they do use it. By taking away the ability to even test for marijuana, it gives marijuana use a special status.
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Re:Marijuana testing of job applicants is barred by NYC by locklock on Friday April 12, 2019 @04:55AM (#19643189)
There's a difference between these tests (has this person smoked weed at any point in the last month, roughly?) and breathalyzer tests (is this person currently drunk?)

Showing up to work drunk vs. showing up to work two weeks after smoking weed are relatively different scenarios, to say the least.

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Re:Marijuana testing of job applicants is barred by NYC by rjf72 on Friday April 12, 2019 @05:06AM (#19643258)
Hair tests for alcohol indicates average consumption over a period of months. It can also be detected using blood/urine tests over shorter periods of time, but similarly testing for usage rather than 'are you drunk right now' which hardly needs a test.
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