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."
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
When you’re injured at work, they test you ASAP. If anything shows up, you get no comp. It’s considered your fault.
Yep, all or nothing.
Unpossible. Never heard of this. Marijuana is good because of excessive stress not having it at lunch break...
Ans don’t be surprised if Joe Biden doesn’t sign an EO making MJ legal.
And what about operating heavy equipment?
Right?
But some here require hard facts to pry out of the vault of denial.../s
That, too.
The Peoples Republic of Minnesota legalized weed in an orgy of leftist legislation when the DFL (Democrat Farmer Labor Party …as socialist as it sounds) seized control of the legislature and the the leftist ideologue Governor Walz was re-elected in 2022. However, while weed use and personal cultivation was legalized, the Legislature failed to implement the regulatory structure nor address such questions as driving while impaired by pot. The haze you see over Minnesota might not all be from Canadian wildfires, but also from idiots smoking their reefer.
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