The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is advising that all safety-sensitive workers must still comply with federal drug testing requirements, even as the president directs the attorney general to complete a cannabis rescheduling process.
However, the department didn’t quite specify what would change if marijuana is ultimately moved from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA)
After President Donald Trump signed an executive order on cannabis rescheduling last week, DOT issued a notice saying it’s received “inquiries” about the impact of the potential reform on the department’s “longstanding regulation about the use of marijuana by safety‐sensitive transportation employees.”
That includes “pilots, school bus drivers, truck drivers, train engineers, subway operators, aircraft maintenance personnel, transit fire‐armed security personnel, ship captains, and pipeline emergency response personnel, among others.”
DOT clarified that, until Attorney General Pam Bondi finalizes the rescheduling action, marijuana remains a Schedule I drug. Therefore, it “remains unacceptable for any safety‐sensitive employee subject to drug testing under the Department of Transportation’s drug testing regulations to use marijuana.”
Additionally, “Until the rescheduling process is complete, the Department of Transportation’s drug testing process and regulations will not change,” the notice says.
“Transportation employees in safety-sensitive positions will still
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