Posted on 02/25/2024 10:41:06 AM PST by devane617
After states legalize the sale of weed for recreational use, on-the-job injuries rise among younger workers, new research shows.
U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics for 2006 through 2020 show that legal "recreational marijuana sales were associated with a 10% increase in workplace injuries among individuals aged 20 to 34 years," the study authors concluded.
They note that prior research involving older workers did not show this effect. In fact, older workers' injury rates typically decline after recreational weed is made legal in their state, perhaps because older folk are only using their marijuana to ease pain.
In contrast, the rise in injury among younger workers may be because "marijuana use diminishes workers' cognitive functioning or acts as a gateway to harder drugs," the researchers theorized.
The study was published in JAMA Health Forum and co-led by Dr. Joseph Sabia, chair of the economics department at San Diego State University.
As the researchers noted, "since 2012, 24 states and Washington, D.C., have legalized the possession and sale of small quantities of marijuana for recreational purposes."
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Why are teachers, cops, the president, congress, judges, city council members, mayors etc., not subjected to random drug tests?
But Johnny and Suzi stocking shelves at the local hardware store are?
Does anyone see a problem here?
Who could ever have suspected this might happen?
Gee, ya think?
Affirmative action for air traffic control is so wonderful
All I can say is that if they gave teachers random drug tests, this country would have almost no teachers.
Which would please me.
Teachers, thanks to leftist infiltration and subversion, are some of the creepiest and most perverted professions in America.
You bet....
Let me add to the list, why are district attorneys, prosecutors, teachers, cops, the president, congress, judges, city council members, mayors etc., not subjected to random drug tests?
Can you imagine if people like dirty Fani and her staff were randomly drug tested? I guarantee there would be lots of job openings...
and in other news- Young worker injuries on the rise due to their eyelids being stapled shut as a result of a new fad going around
The Quality Director where I worked pulled out a printout of defects. The plant had an automated system that plotted them by the hour. I waved it at me and told me we had a quality problem and to go solve it. I said, “We don’t have a quality problem. We have a drug and alcohol problem.”
He said there was no drugs or alcohol involved. The morning break had just ended. I excused myself from the department meeting and went into the parking lot. I came back and showed him a couple of malt beer cans still frosty where they hadn’t been quite emptied yet. And a couple of “roaches” and some glassine bags with bits of white powder in them. He screamed, “Get that out of here!” I threw it in his trash can. He yelled, “Not in my trash!” So, I took them out and dumped them in a can on the production floor. This was a defense plant. But they’d stopped drug screening because it was racist. That’s on account of the screening had only found black people using. (Whites used too but weren’t so stupid about as to risk their jobs.) Back to the QA thing, I pointed out the failures occurred after each break and lunch and gradually eased off until the stoppage. So, yeah, drugs in the workplace are bad for profits.
Government created disaster , AGAIN
Let’s drug test them all.
While we are at it, let’s see if the had a drink in the past 3 months.
Or coffee.
Or cigarettes.
And, all workers should be force vaxxed.
“ They note that prior research involving older workers did not show this effect. In fact, older workers’ injury rates typically decline after recreational weed is made legal in their state, perhaps because older folk are only using their marijuana to ease pain”
Hahahaha, no bias there.
Perhaps the older employees have job’s requiring more experience and could it not be them injuring the younger less experienced employees, forklift, cranes etc.?
Ya missed my point.
If Suzi down at the local Chicken Licken is subjected to random drug tests, so should judges, cops, teachers, prosecutors, district attorneys etc...
No?
“”recreational marijuana sales were associated with a 10% increase in workplace injuries among individuals aged 20 to 34 years,”
They were not associated.
They were coincidental.
Nobody proved any association whatsoever. Facts matter.
This is what scares me the most - the quality issues, especially in professions where safety of the consumer is important. There are a lot of things I just don’t trust like I used to, and this goes back before legalizing marjuana. It’s a lack of responsibility all around.
“Sabia’s group believe that a loosening of laws around recreational marijuana may hurt younger workers, specifically. That’s “consistent with the hypothesis that recreational marijuana impedes [their] cognitive function and care,” the researchers said.”
Yet, somehow it makes older workers smarter?
A ludicrous POS of a study.
I wonder if there is a correlating increase in the rate of auto accidents similar to the work accident rate in this 20-34 age group?
Ah… my bad.
Agreed. All or nothing.
My point is if we’re gonna test for pot etc,, we need to include alcohol (which wrecks lives too) and tobacco and maybe caffeine. Everyone should also upload their CVS prescription list. Then, forced vaxxes.
Liberty and freedom are messy sometimes. But they beat democracy and statism.
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