You're giving Amazon way too much credit here. They didn't need to drug test most of their employees in the first place. That policy was their choice. Also: >

You're giving Amazon way too much credit here. They didn't need to drug test most of their employees in the first place. That policy was their choice. Also: > Amazon was hit with a proposed class action suit, which claimed that the company was violating a New York City law by testing applicants for jobs at local facilities for marijuana, according to a Westlaw report. So it seems like their hand was forced by the dissonance between federal and state law. This is not leadership or some kind of principled stand, it's liability minimization.