Group: Prop 19 Would Mean Pot-Smoking at Work

NBC Bay Area ^ | JESSICA GREENE

[equalitybeforethelaw]

Kewl Dude.

[a fool in paradise]

If marijuana was legal for adults in California, would more people show up at work high?

Can you demand the "right" to operate heavy machinery while taking prescription medicine?

Nope. Go home and smoke your dope.

When you sick leave runs out, find a new employer.

And there are already plenty of Americans living on "disablity" from the government who do nothing but smoke pot and drink beer from sun up to sunset.

Land of the free and home of the wage slave.

[detritus]

This is absurd. By this “logic” when alcohol prohibition was repealed then employers had to let their workers show up on the job sloshed to the gills.

[GeronL]

“for adults”

sure, they already “prescribe” it for minors.

[wolfcreek]

Alcohol is legal but, you can’t show up to work drunk.

[Le Chien Rouge]

Dirty little secret about sales: Quite a few are cokeheads.

Dirty little secret about the restaurant business: Most of the kitchen staff is baked.

Drug abuse in the workplace is already quite prevalent.

I don’t think legalizing it will make one bit of difference.

[gthog61]

Why don’t they just find a judge to declare it legal?

[a fool in paradise]

Additionally more employers are going to a tobacco-free staff. No tobacco (smoking or smokeless) even in your off-work hours.

Since this is allowed to stand (”for insurance purposes”) then the same stands to rule for those who engage in other risky behaviors.

[calex59]

It would no more allow pot smoking at work than it would allow drinking at work. Dumb ass.

[wolfcreek]

Yep, those sandwich artists look pretty wasted.

[nickcarraway]

But remember, we are told alcohol is evil, and pot is good.

[Ben Mugged]

Beer is legal but I can’t take a beer break. Alcohol & smoking is prohibited on my company’s campus. Would probably be the same with MJ.

[calcowgirl]

The California Chamber of Commerce on Thursday released a legal analysis that claims Proposition 19
would lead to more workplace accidents by forcing employers to let workers smoke pot on the job.

I don't get it. Under their logic, wouldn't employers now be forced to allow workers to drink alcohol on the job?
The proposition deals with legalizing marijuana for recreational purposes, not medicinal purposes.

[abigailsmybaby]

Smokers can’t smoke on the job but the commies want to make legal to smoke pot on the job. Does the second-hand-smoke rule not apply to pot? Is that what I’m missing?

[absolootezer0]

drinking is tolerated (or employers at least look the other way) in many places. restuarants, bars and strip clubs sometimes encourage their wait/ bar/ entertainment staff to accept drinks from patrons as it increases business.
in alot of union shops, a drink or two at lunch is acceptable.

[nickcarraway]

Tobacco and alcohol are bad, apparently. Other things aren’t.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

""I have families members with severe arthirtis." Willis told us, "If they're typing or driving for work, they apply it to their knuckles and it helps relieve some pain."

Yes, this is exactly why all of these people want to legalize pot. To rub it on their knuckles. And all of that glacoma out there, people need to smoke pot to cure their glacoma. We have a state that is on the verge of bankruptcy and cannot pay it's own government workers, yet what are Californian's worried about? Smoking pot. Of course!!

[WayneS]

Really? Darn it! I guess I’d better head for home before I get in trouble...

;-)

[wolfcreek]

Drive safely!! }:~)