Posted on 08/13/2010 2:39:46 PM PDT by jessduntno
Supporters and opponents of a ballot measure to legalize marijuana in California are dueling over the law's possible effects on employers and the workplace.
The California Chamber of Commerce claims in a legal analysis released Thursday that Proposition 19 would lead to more workplace accidents by forcing employers to let workers smoke pot on the job.
The analysis also contends the law would make California companies ineligible for federal contracts because employers could not guarantee a drug-free workplace.
The proposition's supporters dispute the chamber's findings. They point to the determination of the state Legislative Analyst's Office that employers would retain their right to enforce existing workplace pot rules under the new law.
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Does this mean they can have cigarettes and a 2 martini lunch?
They practically shoot you for smoking a cigarette in California, and they are talking about smoking pot ON THE JOB??
You can smoke pot, but not tobacco. Go figure.
If you do it in the Whitehouse, why not the rest of the country?
“Does this mean they can have cigarettes and a 2 martini lunch?”
Who knows? Who knows anything about anything the courts will do next? will they honor the State’s constitutional amendment by referendum process? Up hold laws that are constitutionally passed? Elect Gov. Moonbeam in a “deemed” election? WTFK?
Busy body laws coming back to bite. To funny.
This is nonsense. Irresponsible people smoke pot on the job NOW. Irresponsible people drink on the job NOW.
Unintended Consequences of Liberal legislation just go on, and on, and on...
You will be able to LEGALLY smoke pot in the workplace, but smoking a cigarette will get you fined, or even taken to jail.
Can you imagine how much an employers liability insurance is going to soar because of this?
“Yeah.. like dude, I was just tokin’, you know, and uh... his head ran in to the forks of the lift.”
yeah, that’s it. if you’re gonna drive a once-prosperous state into banana-republic status, this is how you do it.
why dont the nuts in calli just say they want to legalize pot..you cant smoke cigs at work but i bet calli will vote for smoking pot in hospital nurseries.
I read this as “Chamber Pot Law”....
When I first saw that headline, I thought it said “California Chamber Pot.”
Heh.
“Yeah.. like dude, I was just tokin’, you know, and uh... his head ran in to the forks of the lift.”
I ... uhhhhhhh ... started counting out these parts and REALLY got into it ... did you ever notice how the chrome sometimes gets a little burn in it? Here, check out these parts ... I been looking at them really close for about two hours ... coooool.
No ... production costs will be just fine. Gimme a drunk anyday ... when you smell it on him you send him home .. hard to tell if a devoted pot head is stoned or just stupid.
Better stock up on the munchies! Michelle Obama approved, of course!
AZ can’t pass a law to enforce fed law, but CA can pass a law defying fed law?
When I first saw that headline, I thought it said “California Chamber Pot.”
I read this as “Chamber Pot Law”....
16 seconds apart?
Allllllright ... that was weird.
These people are insane.
Gimme a drunk anyday ... when you smell it on him you send him home .. hard to tell if a devoted pot head is stoned or just stupid.
Give them an inch, and they’ll try for a mile...
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