It’s the only ‘fair’ thing to do! *SMIRK*
Your joking, right?
Oh, to be so entitled. Gawd, we are in trouble!
Was wondering how they were gonna handle this. difference between alcohol and pot is pot stays in your system way longer. I predict this is gonna come up more and more.
“Attitudes are changing toward marijuana. Laws are going to have to change, too,” Coats told The Associated Press. “I’d like for this to enable people like me to find employment without being looked down upon.”
And there you have it folks, the first pothead victim of an unjust system.
Definite downside to pot in the workplace: laziness and lack of focus. Not to say there are no lines of work suited to its use, like sitting around and composing Inna-Gada-Davida.
They ignored the law of unintended consequences - people like this didn’t play enough chess.
I see what you did there.
A back door way for the Dems to cripple the oil & gas industry in Colorado.
They’ve tried to do it already via franking, which failed, but Oil & Gas companies are generally required by their insurance companies to randomly test employees for drugs and alcohol. All sub-contractors are also required.
Can you imagine what Oil & Gas company liability insurance rates will do if marijuana use is allowed?
Can’t be having those rednecks have good jobs!
Yeah, they should have a special break and lunchroom where dope smokers could have overstuffed sofas, dim lights, stero music and lotsa, lotsa snack machines. Tobacco smokers of course will still have to leave the building.
Alcohol is legal too. But try showing up at work crocked.
Unless you’re Tip O’Neill or Ted Kennedy.
The price of Public Education...
If the stoner wins his case, look for businesses to flee
Colorado at their first opportunity.
Thanks for posting. Hubby and I have long wondered what would happen in a case like this.
“Coats, A a quadriplegic, told The Associated Press. “I’d like for this to enable people like me to find employment without being looked down upon.”
Joe Biden was heard lending his support for the Dope on dope:
- Uh, uh, Brandon Coats, is here. Stand up, Brandon, let ‘em see you. Oh, God love you. What am I talking about? I tell you what, you’re making everybody else stand up, though, pal. I tell you what, stand up for Brandon.
They must be high!!!
Remember that when your on the operating table.
It is down to getting sued because he’ll sue when he decides he can fly off a roof or get sued because they fired him because he was high. The company is going to lose either way. This is just the first of such cases.
But pot’s intoxicating chemical, THC, can stay in the system for weeks.
Not exactly,
they detect the non-psychoactive marijuana metabolite THC-COOH, which can linger in the body for days and weeks with no impairing effects. Because of THC-COOH’s unusually long elimination time, urine tests are more sensitive to marijuana than other commonly used drugs. According to a survey by Quest Diagnostics, 50% of all drug test positives are for marijuana.
Sig Heil
Yup, what's sauce for the goose ... if you can't be fired for after-hours legal tobacco use, you can't be fired for after-hours legal pot use (as long as you're not high on the job). I think employers should be free to fire for any damn reason they please, and suffer the economic consequences of irrational policies - but it sounds like some tobacco users successfully invented themselves a bogus "right" under Colorado law.