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Nevada bans employers from refusing to hire those who fail marijuana tests
CNN ^ | June 12th | Eric Levenson and Chris Boyette

Posted on 06/15/2019 9:47:02 AM PDT by indthkr

(CNN) — Starting in 2020, Nevada employers cannot refuse to hire a job applicant for failing a marijuana screening test, making it the first state to pass such a law.....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: 2020election; cannabis; defileyourtemple; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; liberalagenda; liberaltarians; libertarians; losertarians; marijuana; mediawingofthednc; medicalmarijuana; nevada; partisanmediashills; pot; potheads; presstitutes; smearmachine; sobriety; thc; wod
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To: dfwgator

Know plenty of people who tried their hands at masonry labor, only to be fired for being no better than a half-trained chimp after they got their fix of weed.

Pot for escapism is terrible, stays too long in the system.


41 posted on 06/15/2019 10:50:46 AM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Fox Shadowbans People On Comments)
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To: AmericanCheeseFood

What’s next, legalizing Cocaine? Why not?

Zappa - Cocaine Decisions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0ZAdpJ-ih0


42 posted on 06/15/2019 10:52:11 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: indthkr

Is smoking dope some mind of civil right?


43 posted on 06/15/2019 10:53:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Random drug tests are used, and termination occurs with a confirming drug tests shows recent use.

Random drug tests, not always random.

For unknown reasons, my name often was chosen.

I could ALWAYS pass the test, no need to lose any good young workers.
My boss had been there about forever and knew a million workarounds.

Once he sent one of my team, everyone thought he was a safe bet. He never returned. And he was a very good worker too.


44 posted on 06/15/2019 10:53:50 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: indthkr

—reminds me of Wm. F. Buckley’s comment that “the same part of the political spectrum that would make smoking tobacco a felony would make smoking marijuana mandatory”—


45 posted on 06/15/2019 10:58:35 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the meda or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: 2banana

“But you can safely operate heavy equipment or drive a truck while smoking a cigarette.”
Agree.

“You are a hazard with the same equipment while smoking a joint”

also agree, somethings are not for on the job consumption. I would have a whole list of things not to be under the influence of
Alcohol or heroin or pcp or someone who has siezers or is a psychopath or is sick with ebola to name a few.


46 posted on 06/15/2019 10:59:14 AM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free)
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To: rktman

—he signed the “gun” bill yesterday—


47 posted on 06/15/2019 11:00:33 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the meda or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: indthkr

What about truck drivers, first responders, security guards, railway workers, miners and anyone else in potentially dangerous jobs.


48 posted on 06/15/2019 11:01:41 AM PDT by spokeshave (If anything, Trump is guilty of attempting to obstruct injustice.)
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To: dfwgator

Like 80% of the construction and tech industry?


49 posted on 06/15/2019 11:02:33 AM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free)
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To: indthkr
Federal courts! The possession of even minute quantities of marijuana is still a Federal offense punishable by up to one year in prison for a first offense.
50 posted on 06/15/2019 11:04:46 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Comey,Brennan and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: spokeshave

I don’t want a pothead installing my furnace or upgrading my electrical service either..


51 posted on 06/15/2019 11:06:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: PAR35

And lawyers are a constituency for the same purpose legalizing pot, so.....hmmmmm, I smell a plan


52 posted on 06/15/2019 11:06:55 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: indthkr

Will they have special pot smoking areas are will the two groups have to share the same space? /s


53 posted on 06/15/2019 11:15:52 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: rellimpank

Thanks. I guess. NOT!


54 posted on 06/15/2019 11:24:42 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Caipirabob
Find another reason to fire them... easy.

Many Nevada employers require their employees to have a security clearance. Someone who has failed a drug test cannot get a security clearance. Sorry, rules are rules.

55 posted on 06/15/2019 11:26:05 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: AmericanCheeseFood

“Pot for escapism is terrible, stays too long in the system.

For the occasional smoker/vaper, it is very difficult to measure any effect on behavior or mental ability after 2-3 hours, regardless of the level in adipose tissue. THC taken orally has a somewhat longer effect profile.

For the addiction or dependency-prone individual who likes to stay high all the time or while working — Don’t hire them, bad news.


56 posted on 06/15/2019 11:29:40 AM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: indthkr

So those who lost their job
due to testing positive
for marajuana use can now
sue to get their job back?
What happens when a employer
fires a underporforming
employee due to his’ being
stoned on the job? Pot
creates procrastinators.


57 posted on 06/15/2019 11:45:18 AM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: rktman

Stoners now, stoners forever. Working impaired is never a good business model.

So, does the legislation protect the employer from legal liability for acts carried out by the buzzed employee?


58 posted on 06/15/2019 11:49:05 AM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between real life and fiction? Fiction has to make sense and follow some logic.)
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To: dfwgator

It’s a quandary. Insurance carriers and agencies in Nevada, for example, will have a hard time denying coverage for someone with an otherwise sensible drug testing program.

I would think that carriers would just write around covering accidents where a user is involved leaving the company naked. The companies will then chose to find drug users by guess and by golly and rid themselves ot them just as they get rid of habitual drunks that show up okay on blood alcohol.


59 posted on 06/15/2019 11:49:59 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: indthkr

Surely this insane law will not stand SCOTUS scrutiny?

Gotta be unconstitutional!


60 posted on 06/15/2019 11:51:08 AM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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