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<blockquote data-quote="Calamity Jane" data-source="post: 656533" data-attributes="member: 13882"><p>Hi Nancy,</p><p></p><p>Do you know if it's up for recreational legalization or medicinal?</p><p></p><p>If it's recreational, and it passes, what would companies do that currently drug test? If a prospective employee tests positive for pot, they would no longer have to exclude them? That just seems so odd. I can think of so many issues for businesses. I'm sure even if the bill passes, it's still against the law to drive while on pot. But if I own a trucking company and I drug test potential employees, if pot is legal, and they come up positive on the pre-employment test, they can say, "It's legal, and I'm not driving now. Of course I wouldn't use if I were driving a truck." That is going to be so dicey for employers.</p><p></p><p>The thing is, even if heroin were made legal today I wouldn't be stupid enough to do it. We have to police ourselves. It's such a slippery slope because people want to do what they want to do, and our politicians don't want to stand in the way of the voters. Whenever I used to waste my breath telling my son that daily pot smokers are generally lazy, unmotivated, unsuccessful adults, he'd throw in my face the fact that Paul McCartney has been a regular pot smoker for 40 yrs, and he wrote and co-wrote the fantastic, world-changing Beatles catalog and all the songs he's done since the Beatles broke up. He's worked steadily and is still working. Of course, my son, his friends, and many other regular pot smokers are NOT Paul McCartney. I don't even know what to say anymore, I'm tired of talking to him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calamity Jane, post: 656533, member: 13882"] Hi Nancy, Do you know if it's up for recreational legalization or medicinal? If it's recreational, and it passes, what would companies do that currently drug test? If a prospective employee tests positive for pot, they would no longer have to exclude them? That just seems so odd. I can think of so many issues for businesses. I'm sure even if the bill passes, it's still against the law to drive while on pot. But if I own a trucking company and I drug test potential employees, if pot is legal, and they come up positive on the pre-employment test, they can say, "It's legal, and I'm not driving now. Of course I wouldn't use if I were driving a truck." That is going to be so dicey for employers. The thing is, even if heroin were made legal today I wouldn't be stupid enough to do it. We have to police ourselves. It's such a slippery slope because people want to do what they want to do, and our politicians don't want to stand in the way of the voters. Whenever I used to waste my breath telling my son that daily pot smokers are generally lazy, unmotivated, unsuccessful adults, he'd throw in my face the fact that Paul McCartney has been a regular pot smoker for 40 yrs, and he wrote and co-wrote the fantastic, world-changing Beatles catalog and all the songs he's done since the Beatles broke up. He's worked steadily and is still working. Of course, my son, his friends, and many other regular pot smokers are NOT Paul McCartney. I don't even know what to say anymore, I'm tired of talking to him. [/QUOTE]
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