[Texasforever]

Where, pray tell, would he get a prescription for liquor?

That is the point. When you medicalize pot then the employer has a harder time firing a guy just for taking his "medicine". Now if he only needs his "medicine" off the job then he obviously just likes to smoke pot. Wouldn't you agree?

[rb22982]

It doesn't say in the article he was smoking marijuana on the job. Just that he tested positive for it. Well when you have a 2-2 1/2 week time frame for testing positive (in the most common methods) and he was using it for prescription then well he's going to test positive.

[Dakmar]

And if vicodin was legal, a doctor could prescribe it and people could take it work and not get fired, since they were taking it under orders of a physician. What interest would an employer have in picking and choosing which prescription drugs to disallow in the workplace?

[carenot]

When you medicalize pot then the employer has a harder time firing a guy just for taking his "medicine". Now if he only needs his "medicine" off the job then he obviously just likes to smoke pot. Wouldn't you agree?

I believe that the employer has the right to fire an enployee just because he don't like him. Why does he have to have a reason?