Cannabis Testing Employees: The Haze Continues

New Jersey Law Journal (reprinted with permission)

4.1.2022

This New Jersey Law Journal article, written by Wilentz Shareholders Lisa Gora and Tracy Armstrong, reviews the cannabis testing guidance currently set by the NJ Cannabis Law and the importance of the pending regulations to clarify the law’s impact on employment drug testing. 

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