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A Positive Test Doesn't Always Mean You're Disqualified Early in my career, I watched a colleague make a determination that stuck with me. A claimant had tested positive for illegal drugs and was let go as a result, and my colleague disqualified him for misconduct on that basis alone. There was one problem: the employer had no drug policy. No rule against drug use, nothing the claimant had ever agreed to or been warned about. The claimant's job also wasn't a safety-sensitive