FYI -- One of the ways one can lose their job

[Drug Dumper]

I just read this:

Enjoying legal drugs in your spare time

If you vacation in a state where marijuana is legal and partake while you’re there, can you get in trouble with your employer? Bradley Hunt, attorney with Brinkley Walser PLLC, says his firm examined that question for a client and found: “While that consumption of marijuana in Colorado may have, in fact, been legal and on the up and up, if that employee was administered a random drug test by the employer per company policy, and that test came back positive, their employment can still be terminated even if the use of marijuana was done legally in a state that has legalized the use of marijuana.”

A Colorado appellate court held that because marijuana is still illegal under federal law, employees could be fired for using it off duty, says Jeremy Robb, an associate with Nilan Johnson Lewis. “Only a handful of states — including Arizona, Delaware, and most recently Minnesota — generally prohibit employers from terminating registered medical marijuana users if they test positive for marijuana.”

When it comes to lawful, off-duty actions such as smoking tobacco, some states prohibit employers from firing an employee, Robb says. However, other states do not have such prohibitions and employers may fire or refuse to hire smokers.

 

[Vagitarian]

I just read this:

Enjoying legal drugs in your spare time

If you vacation in a state where marijuana is legal and partake while you’re there, can you get in trouble with your employer? Bradley Hunt, attorney with Brinkley Walser PLLC, says his firm examined that question for a client and found: “While that consumption of marijuana in Colorado may have, in fact, been legal and on the up and up, if that employee was administered a random drug test by the employer per company policy, and that test came back positive, their employment can still be terminated even if the use of marijuana was done legally in a state that has legalized the use of marijuana.”

A Colorado appellate court held that because marijuana is still illegal under federal law, employees could be fired for using it off duty, says Jeremy Robb, an associate with Nilan Johnson Lewis. “Only a handful of states — including Arizona, Delaware, and most recently Minnesota — generally prohibit employers from terminating registered medical marijuana users if they test positive for marijuana.”

When it comes to lawful, off-duty actions such as smoking tobacco, some states prohibit employers from firing an employee, Robb says. However, other states do not have such prohibitions and employers may fire or refuse to hire smokers.

Interesting. Never in 28 years was I administered a test. I always wondered what would happen if I had been. I have my piece of paper that says it's OK in CA, it would've been an interesting lawsuit.

 

[libluvsbukkake]

Yet, if you were a raging Alcoholic, no worries. I remember the Manager Meetings that I used to attend, where Bar Bills would routinely approach $1,000. However, if you tried to expense an in-room Movie, you would be called on the carpet. This hypocrisy STILL exists.

 

[Drug Dumper]

Interesting. Never in 28 years was I administered a test. I always wondered what would happen if I had been. I have my piece of paper that says it's OK in CA, it would've been an interesting lawsuit.

I wasn't either, except for the initial one before I was hired.

 

[Vagitarian]

Yet, if you were a raging Alcoholic, no worries. I remember the Manager Meetings that I used to attend, where Bar Bills would routinely approach $1,000. However, if you tried to expense an in-room Movie, you would be called on the carpet. This hypocrisy STILL exists.

Alcohol consumption among managers was absurd at Merck in the 70s. By the time I got to Wyeth in the late 80s, I actually saw them get rid of an alcoholic DM. I know of another company who asked a high level in-house manager to leave over the white stuff in the 80s. They didn't even have to test him, his behavior went so far south. At least Pfizer allowed one in room movie per night on road trips. They figured it was safer and cheaper than going out drinking. Before they bought Wyeth, I'd just settle anything not allowable by paying out-of-pocket and having the bill re-printed.