Amazon will no longer test most job applicants for marijuana

Amazon is no longer screening most job candidates for marijuana use, the company announced this week. Instead, it will treat cannabis use the same as alcohol.

"In the past, like many employers, we've disqualified people from working at Amazon if they tested positive for marijuana use," Dave Clark, CEO, Worldwide Consumer, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "However, given where state laws are moving across the U.S., we've changed course." Amazon has offices in a handful of states and has fulfillment centers in nearly all 50 states. Marijuana is legal in 16 states and Washington, D.C. and medical marijuana is legal in 36 states.