Posted on 09/04/2015 8:52:52 PM PDT by george76
MILIE CYRUS .....
How about we don’t test them like we don’t test alcohilics? Just a thought.
feds said they wouldn’t prosecute
“All well and good, but what will you do with all of the chronically unemployed who won’t pass the drug tests. I assume employers will still have the right to fire or not hire users”.
People not passing drug tests here in southwest Colorado is a big problem. Walmart, for instance, can’t keep employees because so many fail the employer drug screenings and can’t find enough who can pass the drug tests to replace them.
Colorado should sue fed gov... i mean fedgov lets denver eschew immigration law enforcement.... so screw fex gov on these charges.....
I think that presumption is wrong.
If pot is legal, there is no right to fire or not hire pot users. Think about this. If there were a test which could tell if you had any alcohol at all in the past month would it be legal for employers to refuse to hire you?
Now I do know of one case where a large company got away with not hiring any smokers, but they had a legitimate reason. Many of their facilities were very large -- 15 minutes to walk to your work assignment from the nearest door. Smokers would walk outside to smoke, come back to their work assignment and leave in 10 minutes to go out for another smoke. No productivity at all.
I got that information from a long time employee of Walmart.
The Colorado State laws pertaining to drug use on the job are not compatable with the new marijuana legalization.
You don’t think a company would be liable if they knowingly had a user who caused an accident leading to damage or injury?
Drug testing is legit step for employment and continued employment. Someone wants to use drugs, fine, just don’t expect to have someone hire you. And about tobacco. It is legal to deny employment to someone because they smoke. I will never hire a smoker and will fire them. Did so last year. Nothing discriminatory about this.
Better to use it for bridges and roads than waste it on the current education establishment. That is the source (especially higher education) of so many of the problems this nation has now.
More time finishing concrete or doing ironwork or working with a shovel will help people gain perspective, and then if they want to pursue a higher education, they can fund it themselves.
Fifty pounds at current street value is worth about $240,000.00, sold by the ounce, and more if sold in smaller units, from what I have been told.
education gets enough money...ENOUGH....we don’t need people doped up with weed to provide education....
They aren't run by morons. They recognize that the cost of one screwup is huge and could lead to bankruptcy.
If you don't want the paycheck, go elsewhere.
not education in general. Education about drugs and what they do you.
drug education, not education in general.
drug education, not education in general.
A drilling company, an oil company, and a trucking company might all have legitimate reasons for drug testing, given that they operate within dangerous environments using heavy machinery. However, Walmart is a cheap store where the most difficult task is running a package over a scanner or pushing a broom. There is no legitimate reason for them to require drug testing as a regular thing. Now, if they want to drug test a current employee as a condition of continued employment if they suspect that the employee IS HIGH AT WORK, then it might be reasonable, but otherwise, it is none of their business if an employee likes to spark up off duty, especially in a state where it is legal. If Walmart is randomly drug testing employees without cause, then they are idiots.
How will that help?
Or is your idea of 'drug education' extolling the virtues of weed?
I'd rather have a solid bridge to drive over, myself.
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