Every industry is having trouble recruiting.
Free government money destroyed the work ethic in many. Another huge problem is the required drug testing. It’s not that the companies don’t want to hire a recreational user. It’s that they don’t want to assume liability for any accident caused by an employee that might pee hot.
Until there’s a way to easily test for impairment, like a breathalyser, don’t expect to see a solution.
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And yet the Libertarians among us keep trying to convince the populace that we need to legalize all drugs. They told us that if we legalized pot, it would destroy the black market that drives the cartels and the associated violence. Here in Colorado, pot was legalized and rather than make them obsolete, the cartels swept into the state to take advantage of the lax legal environment. It only made the problem much worse. That change also drew the hordes of druggies that now occupy the tent cities that are on every corner.
I despise Libertarians even more than I despise leftist democrats, because they are the enemy within. All they really are is “progressives” who don’t want the government taking their drug money.
Well, they could move to this hellhole. Besides banning guns, becoming an abortion sanctuary and government sanctioned kidnapping the state legislature banned pre-employment piss tests for pot and they are advocating that the police drop marijuana consumption as a prohibition to employment.