A coalition of transportation and safety organizations say they have “serious safety concerns” surrounding the Trump administration’s move to federally reschedule marijuana.
Led by the American Trucking Associations, the groups sent a letter on Monday urging federal officials to take steps to ensure that truck drivers, pilots, transit operators and other safety-sensitive workers will continue to be tested for cannabis.
“Unless the necessary steps are taken to preserve employers’ ability to test safety‑sensitive transportation workers for marijuana, this change could have significant consequences for the safety of the traveling public and the entire transportation sector,” they wrote to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Terrance Cole, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
The organizations said they understand that federal officials are proceeding with rescheduling with “urgency” under an executive order from President Donald Trump, they are “deeply concerned that the current process has not adequately accounted for the impact on transportation safety or the agencies charged with protecting the traveling public” and they want agencies to “work together” during an ongoing cannabis rescheduling hearing and rulemaking process to address those concerns.
In May, the Department of Transportation (DOT) issued
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