Is urine testing for marijuana use as a terms of employment a good idea?
No! Some of your most brilliant, hard working, and reliable employees are marijuana users. When you drug test, you put all marijuana users in the same place as the abusers — the unemployment line. Drug testing is bad for business. (Not to mention it is an invasion of privacy.) If a worker has a drug problem, you can tell by testing how well he does his job. Firing all the drug users who work for you will hurt your business, costs money, and will get people very mad at you. Drug testing allows an employer to govern the actions of an employee in his off time — even when these actions do not effect his job performance. Asking employees to urinate in a plastic cup every month is not a good way to make them feel like part of the business, or make friends, either.
