Impaired medical professionals caring for the public is a main concern of marijuana legalization, medical or otherwise, to which the states’ legislatures’ attention has been drawn. What was typically not-to-fertile an enforcement area has become overridden with “weeds” of impaired physicians, nurses, physician assistants, and all other licensed professionals getting caught high on or off…

California is about to pass a law allowing random mandatory drug and alcohol tests for all physicians regardless of an employment or other event triggering reason. While Pennsylvania’s regulatory scheme is not yet this aggressive, DEA, federal OSHA, and Pennsylvania’s hospital reporting regulations already require event-based drug testing with confidential reporting and immunity for the…