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More businesses are mellowing out over hiring pot smokers

  • Offline MalabarJag
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05-05-2018, 04:09 PM

(05-05-2018, 02:22 PM)rollerjag Wrote:
(05-05-2018, 01:40 PM)MalabarJag Wrote: Testing is not done daily. The idea is to find out if a person has used marijuana (or other drugs) when you hire him, not if he's sober that particular day. The odds are that if a person has used marijuana recently he'll use it again, which is a risk factor to consider when hiring if the employer believes marijuana use will negatively affect one's work.

Testing is also frequently administered randomly post-employment, and is indeed designed to see if you are under the influence while at work. 

If marijuana use is as legal as drinking alcohol, why is it fair to prohibit employment for a person who used marijuana on  the Friday night before his pre-employment drug test the following Monday, over his potential co-worker who got drunk the same night? Is that person as much, or even more, of a risk?

First off, I'm of the opinion that an employee should be judged solely by his job performance. If you can't tell whether or not a person is on drugs by his job performance, then it doesn't matter.

But I'm not the one who's writing the paychecks. An employer can choose to hire the stoner, or choose to hire the drunk, both, or neither. If you think marijuana users are treated unfairly in employment, start a business and hire marijuana users. No one is stopping you.

And marijuana use is still not legal; not even in states that legalized it since it's still illegal by Federal law. And yes, Constitutionally it should be strictly up to the states, but the nine ruling elite have repeatedly claimed otherwise.



                                                                          

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