As a small business owner would I then be allowed to fire an employee for coming to work late after a coke binge or for returning from lunch stoned on pot brownies? No harm was inflicted on me, right?
Nope. NLRB, EEOC, unions, and whoever else could stick their weenie into the pot would fight my right to a productive business atmosphere. It'll be argued that they have "a disease" and not only do I have to allow them time off for rehab, if they choose it at all, after all they have a "right" to suck blow up their snoot, I have to pay for it and the on site counsellors to help them manage their dependency.
I'm all for live and let live, but if drugs are legalized a lot of other "nanny state" laws will have to be changed to satisfy the peripheral effects of a doped up population.
I always thought liberals opposed the war on drugs because it led to a lot of moral relativism, navel gazing and a "tuned out" population that was too busy chasing imaginary bunnies around the apartment and not paying attention to all the other things government does.
Can you do that stuff with drunks now?
Sure it is your right as owner. Private Companies; along with publicly held, have no drug use policies in their terms of employment across this country. I believe it more depends on the state you are in.
Many here will probably agree, at the FEDERAL level, this war on drugs needs to cease. Let the states and their voters decide what a citizen can do within that state.
Re Post 35, the problem again is TOO MUCH GOVT, not too few laws.