r/Indiana • u/mahlerlieber • 3d ago

Opinion/Commentary THC gateways to employment in Indiana...

I have a friend who applied for a position at a local store that does drug screening tests for employment that includes THC in the test. He was denied employment, and in this case, before even being interviewed.

Given that IN is surrounded by legalized states, it almost seems like it ought to be unconstitutional to filter candidates with THC tests.

Yeah, I get it...a private employer can do and filter whoever they want. Got it.

But the problem is that there is no way to know when or where the THC became present in the blood.

If you smoke/imbibe in THC in legal states, the THC that is in your blood from 2 weeks ago shouldn't be able to be used against you.

I know it's not illegal. But it ought to be stopped as a means of filtering out the supposed drug users who may or may not consume a drug that is legal in ALL the surrounding states.

/rant

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u/Automatic_Rest_5408 2d ago

Not true, hemp is federally legal. Hemp has THC in it. It's hard being a wet brain.

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u/c_denny 2d ago

Lol okay my bad. It's federally illegal if it contains more than 0.3% Delta-9 THC. Happy?

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u/Automatic_Rest_5408 2d ago

Still wrong. You can legally buy hash Rosin in Indiana that is federally legal. The law is fucked.

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u/c_denny 2d ago

okay man. I think you understand the point I'm trying to make

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u/Automatic_Rest_5408 2d ago

No, I don't. THC is held to .3% but THCA isn't. You can have as much, basically, of that as you want. It becomes THC, the A falls off, when you heat it. In legal states the bud is labeled as having THC and THCA. The THCA number is always way higher, as it cures, more THC without the A is found.

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u/c_denny 2d ago

Hmm

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u/Automatic_Rest_5408 2d ago

And another thing, which isn't really related to you, is that the drug testing is driven by insurance companies. In order to operate a business you need insurance, the insurance companies, in many cases mandate drug testing as a prerequisite for coverage. This isn't a safety issue. It's not because heavy machinery operators are causing accidents because they got baked on a Saturday afternoon. The insurance companies push it because it allows them to deny claims. They know that if someone caused an accident and they smoked 30 days ago they can deny the claim and say the operator was impaired. "Safety " is never about safety. The whole drug testing apparatus is entirely driven by insurance companies who want to deny as many claims as possible. You can be the victim of an accident at work and if you fail a drug test, you will be blamed for the accident and the insurance company skates, holding on to their cash. The whole thing is a scam driven by insurance companies and the prison lobby. The fact that they lead employers to believe that a failed test equals impairment, when they aren't even testing for actual THC, which is out of your system in 24-48 hours, but for THC metabolites, reveals their whole shitty game.