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Comey: FBI ‘Grappling’ With Hiring Policy Concerning Marijuana
Wall Street Journal ^ | May 20, 2014 | Charles Levinson

Posted on 05/20/2014 2:17:05 PM PDT by Second Amendment First

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To: fr_freak

Pot is against the law.

Those that smoke pot are criminals and those that smoke pot regularly are habitual offenders of the laws.

Hardened Criminal, Habitual Criminal are pretty much the same thing.


21 posted on 05/20/2014 3:04:06 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: JoeDetweiler

In Oregon, we have medical marijuana. So what happens now
when a company has mandatory drug testing and you test positive for drugs and are not hired. This is a lawyers
wet dream....


22 posted on 05/20/2014 3:04:11 PM PDT by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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To: fr_freak

BTW- I never did use the term “hardcore criminal.”


23 posted on 05/20/2014 3:07:05 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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24 posted on 05/20/2014 3:13:40 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Second Amendment First
A lot of the nation’s top computer programmers and hacking gurus are also fond of marijuana

This can't be true because every single pot smoker is a brain dead idiot who only lifts a finger during a psycotic break or to run down little suzy with his car. I know it's true becuase I read it right here on FR.

25 posted on 05/20/2014 3:34:18 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: Oliviaforever

I just gave a sample for a drug screen test for temporary employment. It’s probably going to be positive because I take a medication that can cause a false positive for cannabis. I will have to prove that I have this prescription or I will lose the job. This is an office job, not an airline pilot or anything that critical. Why does everybody have to have these screens? There was a time when employers didn’t do this.


26 posted on 05/20/2014 3:35:19 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: RightOnTheBorder

Yes, we here on FR believe in freedom, except when we don’t.


27 posted on 05/20/2014 3:38:52 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First

The only reason for them to be “grappling” is because they’ve chosen to be confused. The FBI predates the big wave of MJ laws, they’ve crossed this bridge before going in the other direction. They just need to dust off the old policy book.


28 posted on 05/20/2014 3:40:08 PM PDT by discostu (Seriously, do we no longer do "phrasing"?!)
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To: Oliviaforever
...law breakers should not be in the White House or FBI.

If the laws were as laws should be, few, understandable by the general populace, reflective of generally accepted social mores, the view that law breakers should not be in positions of public trust would be sound and easily defensible. Unfortunately, the phenomenon documented in the books entitled One Nation Under Arrest and Three Felonies a Day suggest that a thoroughgoing application of your notion in present circumstances will prevent anyone who has run a business, not to mention a goodly swath of the population at large, from being though worthy of positions of public trust.

29 posted on 05/20/2014 3:40:11 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: virgil

Yes, you will be punished for taking your medication.
You will also be punished if you don’t take your medication.
Take your pick, you will be punished.


30 posted on 05/20/2014 3:42:28 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: GeronL
Then hire someone else

Yes, I'm sure there's no shortage of whip-smart computer programmers and hackers who will quit smoking weed just so they can land a low-paying government job with the FBI.

31 posted on 05/20/2014 3:50:19 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Second Amendment First
More evidence that national marijuana prohibition is dead.
32 posted on 05/20/2014 5:01:22 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: virgil; Ken H

I read a story a few years ago on U.S. companies that drug test American employees, but not their foreign counterparts. They interviewed an HR rep from EDS and asked why Americans were tested but Canadians were not. Her answer? Canadians won’t put up with it. But hey, Land of the Free, and all that.


33 posted on 05/21/2014 4:55:07 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Wolfie

We have a court system that ruled it was ok for companies to test employees and now it’s just accepted by everybody. Whole generations don’t remember a time when employers didn’t do this. Consider the time, the cost, the ethical and legal questions. Is it really necessary to test every employee?


34 posted on 05/21/2014 9:22:39 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Second Amendment First

This is will be a goldmine for defense attorneys.

Det. X were you smoking pot during the investigation?

Stoners are stuck on stupid. There is no medical reason for pot.


35 posted on 05/21/2014 9:29:35 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: virgil

yes


36 posted on 05/21/2014 9:30:33 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory
There is no medical reason for pot.

Would you mind telling me which medical school you graduated from, and the nature of the medical research you did? Because, otherwise, I'm inclined to think you are pulling "facts" out of your hind quarters.
37 posted on 05/22/2014 12:01:17 AM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Drew68

There probably are... In India...


38 posted on 05/22/2014 12:49:26 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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