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California Adds Drug Users as a Protected Class
Front Page Magazine ^ | 18 Dec, 2023 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 12/18/2023 4:54:28 AM PST by MtnClimber

What are the odds that pedophiles will be a protected class in California by 2025? Let me put it this way, I wouldn’t bet against it.

But one thing at a time. Drug users are first in line. Behind Islamic terrorists, drag queens and just ahead of people who vandalize classical art while screaming that the planet is about to explode.

California employees will soon officially have protections from discrimination based on their use of cannabis or marijuana while off the clock and away from the workplace.

The new protections come from an amendment to California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (AB 2188) which was approved by Governor Gavin Newsom on Sept. 18, 2022, and goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2024. The bill makes it unlawful for an employer to not hire, penalize, or terminate a person based on their use of cannabis products outside of work.

Just in case you were worried that your bus driver or heart surgeon is wiping out his brain cells and impulse control on a regular basis. But we can’t leave it here, what about the cocaine and meth users? Drug civil rights must apply to everyone.

Within a decade we went from workforce drug testing to drugs being a protected employment category.

Then again the only things that aren’t protected employment categories in California are being a white man or a conservative.

In California, you can be fired for refusing to wear a BLM badge, but you can’t be fired for being high.

The political class protects itself. It’s not as if anyone in Sacramento state government isn’t high all the time.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism
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1 posted on 12/18/2023 4:54:28 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Leftists protect themselves.


2 posted on 12/18/2023 4:54:38 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Is it time?


3 posted on 12/18/2023 4:58:09 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: texas booster

Daniel Greenfield ping


4 posted on 12/18/2023 5:00:06 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Heroin and Fentanyl users have rights too!


5 posted on 12/18/2023 5:04:27 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: MtnClimber

So people can get a CDL in California and smoke pot in their off time? Keep your distance from those big rigs if you can. Lots of big rigs do long hauls.


6 posted on 12/18/2023 5:05:54 AM PST by MulberryDraw
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To: MtnClimber

Fentanyl laced weed needs some protection too. /s


7 posted on 12/18/2023 5:07:31 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Is it time?

Would it matter if it was? As if anyone is going to deal with the filth that rules much of our country.

8 posted on 12/18/2023 5:07:43 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: MtnClimber

The only class that will never be protected is the straight white Christian gun loving male


9 posted on 12/18/2023 5:07:57 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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The only class that will never be protected is the straight white Christian gun loving male

He has his own protection anyway.

10 posted on 12/18/2023 5:10:44 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

There are however federal laws that supersede California laws regarding drug use. Use of cannabis etc. may be legal in many states but it is not at the federal level. An individual who is certified or licenses to work on US flagged merchant ships can lose his or her merchant marine documents and license if she or he tests positive for cannabis etc.


11 posted on 12/18/2023 5:11:30 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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Don’t forget car jackers Gavin


12 posted on 12/18/2023 5:26:42 AM PST by albie
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There is nothing more useless than a junkie


13 posted on 12/18/2023 5:35:37 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: MtnClimber

This will also (further) open the door to group homes for drug users being allowed into residential neighborhoods.


14 posted on 12/18/2023 5:44:43 AM PST by Languager
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To: MtnClimber

Great idea! How about drug pushers???


15 posted on 12/18/2023 5:56:08 AM PST by Savage Beast (TRUTH is a terrifying thing to behold when trapped in a web of delusion.)
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To: MtnClimber

More insanity from CaliFUBAR


16 posted on 12/18/2023 6:10:54 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: MtnClimber

What an evil cesspool the once beautiful state of CA, has become.

This minion just keeps pushing Satan’s agenda, more and more, each day.


17 posted on 12/18/2023 6:13:38 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: MtnClimber

Well look at the good side. California will now become a magnet for all the druggies and perverts in the country giving (hopefully) a reprieve to the rest of the US.

BUT DON’T BET THE FARM ON IT!


18 posted on 12/18/2023 6:13:47 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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California Adds Drug Users as a Protected Class

As they call them voters even if they don’t vote.


19 posted on 12/18/2023 6:34:22 AM PST by Vaduz (....)
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To: MtnClimber

California’s government is on drugs


20 posted on 12/18/2023 6:39:58 AM PST by butlerweave
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