Posted on 08/12/2010 5:50:06 AM PDT by Mojave
Medical marijuana advocates who want to end the practice of eliminating job candidates and firing employees who use pot with a doctor's okay have high hopes that gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown will get elected and sign a law that stops the practices.
In 2008 the legislature passed a bill that would have done just that, but it was vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The California Supreme Court ruled previously that's it's okay to eliminate candidates and fire employees who use pot, even if they have a doctor's recommendation under the state's medical marijuana law. The only way to change that is if the next governor okays new legislation. There's little hope among pot advocates that Republican candidate Meg Whitman would do that.
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If they’re potheads, don’t they already? Seems like all this would do, is prevent them from getting fired.
We gotta vote in this election.
Dude! It was last week.
I don’t understand it. If an adult wants to take drugs of any kind why is it anyone else’s business? Especially governments. I thought there was a thing called freedom.
Jerry Brown. This is a guy who has had YEARS to go over his “I cudda’s”, and his “I shudda’s” of when he was previously in the Governor’s office, and now this way-out, far Left wonk wants to come back, with notes not on his palm, but in his notebook ‘puter.
After seeing the current lot of similar radical Leftists in D.C. in action, I think he is going to be one very dangerous Governor for California, which is already highballing down the road to Hell due in part to his earlier terms in office.
We have to prevent the bastard from returning with that notebook computer, and clicking “run”.
Employers have the right to fire them when they show up stoned on pot. The potheads hope that Jerry Brown will assist their crusade to make it against the law for employers to control their own workplaces.
Employers currently have the freedom to fire stoners. If Moonbeam becomes governor, that could change.
If Kalifornia elects Gooberner Moonbeam (again) they’ll get exactly what they deserve.....
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I don't understand it. If an adult wants to rob a bank because he wants more money, why is it anyone else's business? Especially government. I thought there was a thing called freedom.
There, fixed it for ya.
And people can take all sorts of legal drugs. Does the word illegal mean nothing? People sure like to toss that word overboard!
this is not about their freedom to take drugs
It’s about the employer’s freedom to not hire them for jobs where impairment poses unacceptable risks- that’s also called “freedom”
legalize pot now!!!!!!! give me a stoner over a drunk any time...make’m pay taxes on the stuff and let our farmers grow it.
“this is not about their freedom to take drugs
It’s about the employer’s freedom to not hire them for jobs where impairment poses unacceptable risks- that’s also called “freedom” “
ABSOLUTELY!...well said...the public has a right to be protected...and the state has the obligation to do that.
“I don’t understand it. If an adult wants to take drugs of any kind why is it anyone else’s business? Especially governments. I thought there was a thing called freedom.”
Yep, the only people that should be able to restrict plants or chemicals are doctors. I’ve known several doctors that recommend people use hemp for certain conditions. One friend of mine had a progressive brain disorder and hemp practically saved his life. No other medication helped him with as few side effects.
Methamphetamine is probably the most addictive and mind-altering drug there is but doctors CAN still prescribe it because SOME people can use to correct a natural imbalance in their brain. If someone can be helped and get a prescription for meth, why not the same for a natural plant that you can grow on your own?
Drug tests are pointless because the only drug that is definitely detectable after several days is THC – the least addictive drug. One can be addicted to meth, crack, heroin and more but still easily pass a weekly drug test by drinking water. But if someone smoked a plant 2 weeks ago because they couldn’t sleep…stop the presses.
Of course I advocate firing of all truly bad employees, stoners or not. But the waste of money, invasion of privacy and possibility of “mistakes” that can ruin someone’s career is ludicrous because it does nothing that drug testing intended to do. Sounds just like every gubbmint program…
The answer to your question is, well, right in your question. “someone else’s business”. If you work for someone else they get to set the rules for employment, as long as those rules doesn’t violate state OR federal law.
Open your own business and you can use all the dope you want for as long as you stay in business.
Sadly, there are far too many people with ‘Progressive’ brain disorder. Moonbeam is but one example.
Uh-huh. And, I have "high hopes" that zero will get his head out of his butt, do a 180, stop bleeding the US dry and begin acting like a Tea Party conservative.
But, IMO, both the Kah-Lee-Forn-Yah potheads and I are going to be very disappointed!!
"Pot Advocates Have High Hopes For Jerry Brown In Gubernatorial Race: Meg Whitman Harshes Their Mellow"
I agree employers have the right, just as with drunks. As I said, if they are big potheads, then they probably already go to work stoned, and if they haven’t been fired by now, then being stoned must not be a detriment to their productiveness. Why fire someone who uses the stuff legally, just because they failed a pee test? If they are unable to work, fire them for another reason, like be a danger to others, or sleeping on the job, etc.
Dave’s not here.
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