[MamaTexan]

Pot is a drug. Same as alcohol...you don’t come to work stoned or drunk. You do, your fired.

Alcohol stays in your system for one or two days. Pot stays in your system for one or two MONTHS.

So people can get fired because they has a few tokes while on vacation last month, but someone who spent the weekend chit-faced drunk is okay!

Just doesn't seem right, somehow.

[muawiyah]

Some people inherit a slightly different gene set and they are unable to metabolize alcohol. They have a drink of wine in June and the alcohol is still in there come Thanksgiving.

Obviously the only way they can be alcohol free is to not ever drink alcohol in any form ~ not ever.

Then there is the far larger group who are unable to metabolize the aromatic hydrocarbons found in modern automotive paint ~

[imfleck]

MJ doesn’t stay in a human body for one or two months. It’s the metabolites that are detected in drug tests, not THC.

THC itself has a very short shelf life.

[SgtHooper]

I agree with you. The residual remains in the body for awhile, but that does not mean the user is incapable of performing the job during the week, usually. Of course, many exceptions are inferred here, and I agree the employer has the right to handle pot smokers/smoking in any way they want and too dam bad for the employee/prospective employee. What has not been mentioned is second-hand smoke on the non-smoker, but who is tested and terminated or punished in some way. So then thresholds are applied, similar to DUI’s, etc. Over the limit, punished; not over the limit, warning, and other procedures.