When it’s legal across the board (make no mistake, this is coming), I would imagine business will be the same as with alcohol. If you show up to work stoned, it’ll be as frowned-upon as showing up drunk, if not moreso.
The unintended consequence of legalization, even though I believe they understand this will happen, is that worker productivity will plummet in this country. One can sleep off a night of heavy drinking and work through the next-day fog. Having been a heavy user of marijuana in the past, I can tell you definitively that the deleterious effects of marijuana on cognitive functionality lasts for several days.
I certainly am not going to rush out and buy some, if Texas were to make it legal (like that would happen).
/johnny
I’m mainly thinking about those professionals, doctors, dentists, independent mechanics, etc with whom we conduct business.
I'll pass on the surgeon working with a hangover. Likewise a commercial pilot or any employee who comes to work in a looking/acting in a fog of any kind.
I can tell you definitively that the deleterious effects of marijuana on cognitive functionality lasts for several days.
Nonsense.
Colorado and other pro-dope states are having to face this difficult question as we FReep.
Employers still have the right to drug screen their employees. And if THC is found, they still have the right to fire them.
Of course this will change. Pretty soon companies will be prohibited from firing a stoner. No matter how poor his work perfromance. Just like queers are now a protected class - dopers will be also.
My experience is the opposite of yours. It's why I don't drink at all. So there ya go...anecdote for anecdote.