Executive Summary / Introduction

Struggling to hire, some companies are relaxing corporate drug policies. Employers are struggling to hire workers in the tightening U.S. job market.

Marijuana is now legal in nine states and Washington, D.C., meaning more than one in five American adults can eat, drink, smoke or vape as they please. The result is the slow decline of pre-employment drug tests, which for decades had been a requirement for new recruits in industries ranging from manufacturing to finance.