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Legalized Marijuana Gives Hiring Managers a Headache
Wall Street Journal ^ | March 23, 2019 | Heather Haddon

Posted on 03/23/2019 6:58:01 AM PDT by billorites

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To: billorites

Don’t care if it is legal.
I would not hire a pothead and more than I’d hire an alcoholic.


41 posted on 03/23/2019 8:26:14 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: billorites

Why are those in Congress, judges, law-enforcement and teachers not required to submit to random drug test like so many other people in much less critical positions?


42 posted on 03/23/2019 8:29:42 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Mears

Ask. If they say no, then you later find out they lie, fire them. I presume someone could include a tox screen for nicotine but why bother, keep it simple.


43 posted on 03/23/2019 8:30:27 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: billorites

I was told by an HR rep for a major corporation that they had to test thirty potential hires to get one that could pass the drug test. This was prior to pot becoming legalized anywhere.


44 posted on 03/23/2019 8:33:41 AM PDT by Saltmeat
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To: Reno89519

Thanks,just curious.

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45 posted on 03/23/2019 8:36:49 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Saltmeat
I was told by an HR rep for a major corporation that they had to test thirty potential hires to get one that could pass the drug test. This was prior to pot becoming legalized anywhere.

Yeah, I might believe that but the stats don't support that claim.


46 posted on 03/23/2019 8:38:37 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: NorseViking
It is intellectually dishonest to compare chocolate to illicit drugs.

Chocolate release endorphins, a Natural OPIATE and has Definite Mood Altering characteristics.

Its mental health benefits include the ability to boost brain levels of endorphins (natural opiates) as well as serotonin (a mood-altering chemical on which many antidepressants act). Because it can increase serotonin levels in the brain, dark chocolate also may increase serotonin production in the gut, and thus help your immune system.

There are multiple articles to demonstrate, a simple google search would have answered your response.
47 posted on 03/23/2019 8:38:46 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: AlaskaErik
The feds just haven't cracked down on states that have "legalized" it.

It's not that they haven't. They can't because of the Rohrbacher-Farr, now Rohrabacher–Blumenauer amendment.

48 posted on 03/23/2019 8:43:09 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: eyeamok

Endorphins aren’t opiates. I am not familiar with any research linking chocolate and idiocy but I have surely seen a lot of idiot pot smokers.


49 posted on 03/23/2019 8:49:14 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

I don’t make a distinction between one “Mood Altering Substance” over another, regardless of whether or not they are Illegal or Common. If One “Mood Altering Substance” is grounds for termination or not getting hired, then ALL “Mood Altering Substances” should be treated equally.

If your “Mood” is altered as a result, then there is NO DIFFERENCE, your “mood” is still Altered regardless of the substance you took.!


50 posted on 03/23/2019 8:54:31 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: eyeamok

Different substances alter mood in a different way.


51 posted on 03/23/2019 8:59:59 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: billorites
How to Pass the Drug Test
52 posted on 03/23/2019 9:00:19 AM PDT by 38special (For real, y'all.)
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To: billorites

Gee, stoned people teaching your kids, driving their bus, making your food, filling your prescription, performing your surgery, assembling your automobile, flying your plane, assembling and servicing that plane...what could go wrong?
Marijuana has NO affect on people, it’s the same as tobacco. Yeah, say that at 15 thousand feet when the stoned mechanic ‘missing’ a step in maintenance makes you fish food.


53 posted on 03/23/2019 9:02:11 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: AlaskaErik

Washington state law is written to uphold an employer’s rights to requiree testing and refuse applicants who test positive.


54 posted on 03/23/2019 9:02:37 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Can I ask a stupid question?

How is it legal, to test for marijuana, and deny someone a job for marijuana use, in a state where it is legal?

If a person is using a legal substance, and is denied a job because of using a legal substance, is it time for lawsuits?”””

It is a stupid question......Do YOU have your own business???.......

Many companies are being told by their workmen’s comp insurance companies that NO CLAIM will be paid if the hurt employee tests positive for ANY DRUG-—including Marijuana.

How about having a business where employee’s drive your trucks? A florist for instance. IF the vehicle insurance company won’t give Liability coverage for any employee who tests positive for ANY drugs, you cannot have that person in your trucks.

Some homeowner’s insurance companies are stating that IF anyone is hurt on your property & they test positive for any drugs of any kind, NO coverage will apply. Not a whole lot different than refusing to cover Pit Bulls that you might own.

I would like to figure out how I can rent a building/house & know that the renter isn’t using drugs. I don’t need the headaches.

I can remember when California would seize your house /property if authorities found Marijuana or other drugs inside. Once had a blind date who I caught putting a baggie of MJ into my kitchen cupboard. AFTER I reamed him out quite well, I locked him out of my house. Told the person who ‘fixed me up’ to NEVER do any blind dates for me EVER AGAIN. Broke off my contact with that person, also.

I have the right to protect my Property-—My business & my person. Drug users need not come near me. Home Depot has hug signs on their windows:

Hiring: IF you use drugs, don’t bother. WE TEST.

I applaud them for that.


55 posted on 03/23/2019 9:04:53 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Reno89519

Right to work is the only way to go.

You have a right to work, and I have a right not to have you working for me. Its my company. I set the standards and pay the payroll/bills. Its all my risk. I can employ who I want. I can serve who I want.


56 posted on 03/23/2019 9:09:45 AM PDT by Delta 21
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To: Mears

If they tell you “No” before you hire them then take a smoke/vape break, they have proved themselves to be untrustworthy and that is an immediate trip to the door.


57 posted on 03/23/2019 9:12:34 AM PDT by Delta 21
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To: billorites

Other companies in states that have legalized marijuana are dropping marijuana from their screening .
Insurance companies says don’t call us your on your own.


58 posted on 03/23/2019 9:14:56 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: discostu

And in the world of moving heavy stuff where insurance premiums matter, those requirements often include peeing clean.

Home Depot was demanding drug tests years go. Big signs on their windows.

Same should apply to any job that includes driving a company truck.


59 posted on 03/23/2019 9:19:15 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Dilbert San Diego
If a person is using a legal substance, and is denied a job because of using a legal substance, is it time for lawsuits?

You can sue anyone for anything, but employers will frequently not hire people if they go in for a screening and there's alcohol in their system.

60 posted on 03/23/2019 9:20:06 AM PDT by Richard Kimball
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