CBD Oil – A Hazard to Continued Employment
As a Flight Attendant, if you test positive for marijuana (THC), regardless of whether it is state approved medical or recreational marijuana and regardless of whether you knowingly smoked a joint or unknowingly ate a marijuana edible, you will be deemed a test violator. The same holds true for a Flight Attendant who states that the test positive was the result of CBD use.
AFA cautions members on the use of CBD oils. As a Flight Attendant working in a safety-sensitive position, if you test positive for marijuana (THC), regardless of whether the positive test result is from the use of:
1. state approved medical marijuana
2. or recreational marijuana, and
3. regardless of whether you knowingly smoked a joint or
4. unknowingly ate a marijuana edible, or
5. used CBD oils,
You will be deemed a test violator. Generally, the source of the THC, even if the product is purchased legally, will not change the test result from a positive to negative.
The production of CBD oil is unregulated. Most claims by those selling the product that you will not test positive are not scientifically founded and should be viewed very skeptically. There are no studies that have scientifically determined the number of times you can repeatedly use a low THC concentration CBD product across time before you might test positive.
The bottom line, as many terminated Flight Attendants and other safety sensitive employees will tell you: the use of CBD may be hazardous to your continued employment.
Flight Attendants needing additional information or who have questions about the use of CBD oils are encouraged to contact our AFA EAP/FADAP representatives at www.afacwa.org or by calling 800-424-2406.
