Drug Testing Public Employees Form

Instructions and help about Drug Testing Public Employees

A lot of people have been changing jobs during the pandemic. If you are thinking of doing the same, beware the employment drug test. It could make you go from looking like you were hired to just looking like you were high. Specifically, you may lose an opportunity after failing a drug test for marijuana, even if you haven't technically used marijuana, but instead you used legal CBD products. Now, many of them come from a version of the cannabis plant called hemp. Hemp has much lower concentrations of THC. That's the compound in marijuana that makes you high and so growing hemp is legal in Texas. In fact, the state agriculture Commissioners smiling face welcomes us to the website for the Texas Industrial Hemp Growing program, which was touted as a big, lucrative new industry for Texas farmers. Well, it turns out that hemp can be used to make a synthetic version of THC. Which can make you high. The state considers that a drug too and wants to ban it. But since it comes from the legal hem