Medical/Recreational Weed Legal in 20+ States, Can Still Be Fired in All But 2
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How about not wasting your money on it and you wouldn’t have a problem.
Same goes for alcohol and cigarettes. These are really simple solutions to
the problem. If you want to do those things, find a line of work that
allows it, don’t get upset when you fail a drug test knowing that it stays
in your system for so long, you knew the consequences.
I don’t care if it’s legal or not. Port is still pot, and if people got
fired when it was not legal, the company should still be able to fire the
person when it is legal. Unless, of course, if it’s for medical purposes.
One of the bigger problems is, that you can’t test for intoxication, like
you can with alcohol.
This is exactly why if weed was made legal in my state, I wouldn’t start
smoking it. Companies don’t have to allow it, and if your state does make
it legal, the company has to be in no hurry to change their current policy.
So in Arizona, I can smoke all I want in my house and not get fired, but I
could get arrested,but in Washington state I could smoke all I want
wherever but still get fired? Did I misinterpret anything?
Marijuana is becoming used much more. Otherwise we would not have seen so
many states turn to legalization. Fact; Just because marijuana is in a
person’s system does not mean that they are “High”. Therefor terminating
someone simply based on the fact that it was found in their system
logically is incorrect. It’s logical to say that if a person was caught
smoking marijuana on the clock without a prescription to fire them.
However, when a person is no longer on company time, why should they be
restricted in anyway to what substances they choose to put in their body?
Especially when said user can demonstrate it’s benefit. If I have
anti-anxiety medication it’s perfectly legal for me to be under the
influence of that drug while at work. Hmmmmmm It’s almost like marijuana
is not as bad as our government makes it out to be. Coming up on 100 years
and things don’t look very good for prohibition. Looks like the people want
more than just alcohol. The question is not if? The question now is when?
How much longer? How many more drug cartel leaders will America enable to
become filthy rich? You can’t have your cake and eat it too. How long do we
want this drug being sold out on the streets unregulated and untaxed? It’s
not going away. America needs to wake up on this issue.
This video could have been 200% more entertaining if when Louis showed up
at 2:19 he had a joint in his mouth and there was a cloud of smoke around
him.
kinda funny to think of Arizona as being the most progressive state for
medicinal marijuana…
Yes. Funny how companies don’t fire people for smoking cigarettes in most
cases.
Hello David Pakman viewers I would like to amend the report as far as laws
protecting medical marijuana patients in CT. The law here states “no
employer may refuse to hire a person or may discharge, penalize or threaten
an employee solely on the basis of such person’s or employee’s status as a
qualifying patient or primary caregiver…” And as far as I know when you
have a drug test come back positive they ask if you are a medical user and
have a card if you do the testing agency can not report a positive result.
It really depends on what your job entails, for example, if you are
operating heavy machinery or a vehicle, there is a zero tolerance on
alcohol and drugs. I will give an example, if you are operating a forklift
and an incident occurs, if you fail a drug or alcohol test, you are liable
and if someone is harmed, you can be convicted. Over here, we have drug and
alcohol testing for driving. I think an employer has every right to fire a
worker for coming into work under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Simple
as that. Don’t do it. And if your job requires you to have drug testing,
then you can’t take drugs, don’t perform such a job if you don’t like it.
Usually these restriction is due to heavy machinery.
Arizona can’t fire you unless they can *prove* you are intoxicated.
Unfortunately, because it’s a ‘right to work’ state, they can try to fire
you for *anything*. I’ve had some of my supervisors tried to get me fired
because I wasn’t a christian. One of them told me “I don’t think you should
allowed to work here because you aren’t a christian.” I told her what she
was saying was against the law, and I would be reporting her. I don’t think
it went too well for her when she was called to HR. That being said, it
gives you a clue of the small minds in this state. Brewer would have tried
to make it so it was a zero tolerance, but the big bucks that are coming
from medical marijuana in California made her shut up and agree to it.
The best screw you republicans. Would be on Obama’s last couple days he
uses his executive power to legalize weed at the federal level. Can you
imagine all those RWers wishing they still had Obama care when their heads
explode.
Excellent properties relieving symptoms from M.S.
I’ve worked with someone who smoked pot during their breaks. They were
about as functional as me if I drank whisky during my breaks. I can totally
see employers wanting to keep marijuana out of their businesses for this
reason.
this how the frog is boiled SLOWLY by liberals.
David – what about recording your show LIVE
after few ganja kif limbo paca lolo snop tijuana
we will see if Louis will not FIRE YOU hahahaha
If I turned up to work drunk then I’d get fired. If I turned up to work
stoned I’d expect the same.
Damn that’s like setting people up for failure legalizing marijuana but
still can get fired for using it.
Marijuana still carries a hefty penalty if you get caught with it and don’t
have a license in Arizona, but it’s good to finally hear that we’re doing
something right here that’s not happening in all other states. Sick folks
shouldn’t lose their jobs for taking their prescribed medication.
The person in charge of the drug testing for their respective companies
have to take their heads out of their asses and address this problem. If
the substance is fully legal then they have no grounds to terminate
anyone’s employment on the basis that their urine came up positive with
marijuana. THIS MAKES NO GODAMN SENSE!!!
David, you realize that the insurance companies are main proponents, and
driving force, of drug testing in the workplace, right? Mostly in the
construction and blue-collar jobs. They offer lower rates for those
companies who will do random drug tests to get lower rates. They don’t try
to test our public safety personnel though.. police, fire, rescue and
politicians don’t get tested. I couldn’t care less if a McD worker is high,
I do worry about those who have the authority to use guns and save lives.
For what job do you have to do a drug test in America?
That’s the great thing about being your own boss.
“I think I’ll excuse myself from work and go outside to smoke a joint.
Maybe I’ll come back to work, or perhaps I’ll go sit under a tree and take
a nap, instead.”
Can we please work on a law to make it also mandatory for all members of
congress, governors senators mayor and city representative to be randomly
drug tested every year.
Here in Ohio smoking cigarettes can get you fired or stop you from being
hired from some of the larger companies to work for around here. Reynolds
and Reynolds is a perfect example of that.
Marijuana should be treated no different than alcohol. Just because it is
in your system does not mean you have been using it at your work.
In spite of legal recreational and/or medical marijuana in 20+ states, you
can still be fired for it in all but 2 http://ow.ly/EgQ8l
With it being legal, it can now be truly argued that users are being
discriminated against. Also, we need to get this shit changed period.
Currently there are tests that can determine if a person is actually under
the influence while at work, yet employers and whatnot continue to use
testing that discloses more than your current state and essentially gives
them a history of most of the substances you had consumed outside of work
hours. Again either this needs changed, or it should be required that
employers compensate employees for the period of time the testing reveals.
You are not getting paid on your time off, your employer has no business
being in your business while you are not under their employ… again pay up
or it’s fucking illegal. Oh and the rules should be applied to all drugs,
prescribed and unprescribed. If it is illegal to fire someone for taking
prescribed medicines, there is no argument here.
Okay 2 things here: 1. Nothing you do in your freetime should lead to you
being fired.
I dont care if its legal or not. As long as you dont get jailtime, you keep
your job.
2. All Internetlaw should just be thrown out completly if there is such a
thing. Did you need new laws on taxes becouse of the Internet? No. All
other laws apply, i dont see how we need any new ones specific to the
Internet.
Zero Tolerance = Zero Intelligence.
Problem is that every stoner I know wake and bakes. They’re going to work
stoned.
Some vaporizers today can actually ‘vape off’ the buzz inducing THC and
provide just the pain relieving CBD’s. So if you vape at a certain
temperature, which doesn’t effect your mind, is it still illegal?
The vaporizer dilemma cracks me up. It’s only legal in NY to eat or vape.
But you can’t legally sell a vaporizer for use with weed. Man…we live in
such silly times.
not everyone is the same I hate people who compare everything based on some
anecdote
The issue comes down to no real tests for “active” cannabinoids in your
system, There’s no test to see if you’re high right now, or got high a week
ago. Fake piss is common out here tho. I drive a forklift and if I hit
something I gotta get an immediate UA, and it’s testing for everything
thard why it’s hard to specify the
Thc content the chemical itself stays dormant in your system for a while.
You’d have to get caught with it on the job, either visually, or like
smelling alcohol on the breath, smelling weed on the person.
Nice to hear someone serious in the news media bringing this up. Good job
guys.