Two GOP congressional lawmakers are joining prohibitionist organizations in their call for a “carve-out” to the Trump administration’s medical marijuana rescheduling action by affirming that safety-sensitive transportation workers could still be penalized for testing positive for THC.
At a press conference outside the Capitol on Thursday, anti-cannabis Reps. Andy Harris (R-MD) and Pete Sessions (R-TX)—along with representatives of Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) and the National Drug and Alcohol Screening Association (NDASA)—criticized the move to reclassify medical cannabis dispensed to patients under state laws as a Schedule III drug.
The congressmen and prohibitionist activists argued that the policy change means a 1986 executive order on the federal workforce that President Ronald Reagan signed defining illegal drugs as Schedule I and II drugs under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) would be effectively nullified when it comes to marijuana use by truck drivers, airline pilots and other workers regulated by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
To that end, the lawmakers said they intend to introduce a bill to codify a “carve-out” to the rescheduling rule to ensure that DOT-certified drivers continue to be tested for cannabis. That’s despite the fact that DOT itself recently clarified that its drug testing policies are
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