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Committee backs ordinance limiting pre-employment cannabis testing for most city jobs; HR asks for implementation work
Summary
The Rules Committee gave a favorable recommendation to O35-24 to stop cannabis screening for most city hires and employees, exempting positions with federal/state testing mandates; Human Resources asked for follow-up on impairment-evaluation tools and legal crosschecks.
The Annapolis Rules and City Government Committee voted to recommend favorably on O35-24, an ordinance that would remove cannabis from the city’s definition of a controlled dangerous substance for employment testing purposes and bar pre-employment or routine employee testing for cannabis except where state or federal law requires it.
Sponsor Alderman Savage said the change is intended to prevent lawful off-duty cannabis use from disqualifying applicants or ending city employees’ careers based on urine tests that detect long-ago use rather than current impairment. “Urine tests do not detect a psychotropic component of THC,” Savage said, and “this test has no correlation on actual on-duty usage or impairment.” He built exemptions into the ordinance for categories that remain subject to state or federal testing…
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