Amazon wants potential employees to know it doesn't screen for cannabis usage

Thursday, September 2, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Amazon has an idea to solve the nationwide delivery driver shortage -- hire cannabis smokers.

Bloomberg reports the company is telling its delivery partners, the stores that operate those blue Amazon vans, to prominently advertise that they don't screen for cannabis use.
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Amazon says it can boost the number of applicants by as much as 400%, but didn't say how they arrived at that number.

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