I'm 36 and have been drugs tested once. They reckoned they'd seen me drop a gram of coke on camera so I got 6 weeks paid holiday.

I live in Germany, and over here unless your employer can present a damn good safety critical reason for why you must be sober at work (e.g. operating heavy machinery) it's not even legal to randomly drug test employees.

For your standard office job, or McDonalds cashier, or even high level office positions it would all be illegal for the employer to (randomly) drug test you.

As long as you're not operating dangerous machinery, it's none of your employers business what you do off the clock at home, even if that's consuming illegal drugs. They can (obviously) ban you from being high at work, but they would reasonable suspicion to accuse of you violating that, and potentially trigger a test (which means effectively the thing that is banned is for your performance at work to be impaired by drugs. If you work equally well high as sober, and don't reek of weed when you walk in, you can pretty much just work high without risk of much consequences)

Yeah, most restaurants dont test for drugs for a reason.

On the flip side, I've had to take a drug test for every single job I've ever had. Most are sales related. But I travel for work so I kind of understand the need 10 years ago when everything was illegal. Now that weed is mostly legal everywhere its pointless to even test for it.

Im 46, and I've only had one job that didnt do a pre-employment drug test. But most of my jobs have involved machines that can hurt people if not handled right.

I have told prosprective employers to fuck off over:

take a drug test

Take a psych test

Unlock my credit for credit checks

Take a full face scan

Register with id.me for the application process

a handful of my jobs they knew i was heavily medicated and were offering me more drugs (part time office work in between surgeries)

I've been tested only twice in my life (I'm nearly 60), once while in college for an engineering internship at IBM and once five years ago when I started driving a school bus. I actually failed the IBM drug test (for marijuana) but they just told me to "clean up my act" and gave me the intership anyway. I'm kind of OK with drug testing school bus drivers only because there's not really any way of testing whether or not a driver is currently high. On the other hand, they don't regularly test drivers for alcohol and it's more common than most parents would want to know for drivers to be drunk.