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Why Amazon says weed could solve its driver shortage.

Written by Jacob Cohen | Sep 8, 2021 8:25:43 AM

Amazon says its number of driver applicants who fail drug tests for marijuana use is too high.

When screening for marijuana, the company’s driver applicant pool reportedly drops by 30% — the opposite of what you want during a labor crunch.

Now, Bezos’s baby is instructing delivery partners to explicitly advertise that they don’t screen for marijuana, which Amazon says could light up the applicant pool by 400%.