At ChoicePoint, do you test people who use medical marijuana?
Dr. Stuart Hoffman: Constantly. We do about four million drug tests a year here. Approximately five percent are positive for all sorts of things, and marijuana is probably 75-80 percent of those. A few people have prescriptions for Marinol, pure marijuana: perfectly legitimate, recognized by the federal government. People who are on medical marijuana present a very different problem for us because there are only about 10 or 11 states that currently accept medical marijuana. And it is the employer’s individual policy which determines whether we make it a positive or negative. So a Wal-Mart store in California will fire someone for using medical marijuana? A Wal-Mart store anywhere in the world will not recognize medical marijuana, even though some states say that it’s legal. It’s their decision. It’s title 49, part 40, U.S. Department of Transportation. [Hoffman pulls out thick printed book of regulations.] That’s the bible for the federally regulated tests, and it’s been challenged in
