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In the construction industry, the overall positivity rate decreased from 4.2% in 2019 to 4.1% in 2020. Positives for marijuana increased from 2.2% in 2019 to 2.5% in 2020.

There was a billowing use of marijuana during in COVID-19 pandemic.

Article content The percentage of Quest-tested U.S. workers with urinalyses that came back positive for illicit drugs has remained consistently around 4.4 per cent since before the start of the pandemic. “Driven largely by surging rates of marijuana general U.S. workforce positives and steady rates of amphetamines positives, the rate of drug positivity remained stubbornly high despite seismic shifts to the workplace caused by the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Barry Sample, Ph.D., senior director...

/PRNewswire/ -- The COVID-19 pandemic did not dampen workforce drug testing positivity for marijuana, which continued to increase last year in the general U.S....

The amount of Americans who tested positive for marijuana increased in 2020 for the fifth straight year, bucking the overall trend of drug test positivity rate decreasing last year among all other drugs.