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smoking is legal, they test for it and wont hire smokers
why should marijuana get special treatment?
Testing for tobacco is nowhere near as common as testing for marijuana is, and there's a pretty good argument that banning smokers from employment is just as stupid.
At this point several states have legalized it for recreational and/or medicinal use. Given that marijuana has long been established to not have any effects truly more harmful than alcohol or tobacco, requiring employers to test for it is basically a waste of time.
I'd rather my employer test for marijuana and not hire the potheads.
I smell the potheads coming back from their lunch break... on a daily basis.
Did I mention I work in a facility with forklifts and cranes moving materials that weigh thousands of pounds?
I feel safer working around the guys that aren't high... and yeah, all of the potheads I've mentioned drive forklifts and operate cranes.
I'd stop testing for it if I were an employer and had no legal requirement to do so. The test is worse than useless it is counterproductive. You can tell if someone has smoked within the last month or so but you can only detect harder drugs like cocaine and heroin a few days out. So you'll catch the guy who smoked a joint at a Friday night party but the guy who was in the back room at the same party snorting rails would get away with it. Alcohol is also potentially much more dangerous than marijuana especially for heavy users. We have the strictest standards against the use of the least dangerous drug and that makes little sense.
What doesn't make sense is why some people are so adamant about doing mind altering drugs (I'm not talking about medical uses). I love sugary sweets, but if my job required me to abstain from my snickers or M&Ms, I would learn to do without. It's an indulgence and not something that I need to survive. Rationalize it all you want, but we don't always get to make the rules that we have to follow. It's not like the government put a tax on bathroom usage or jacked up the price of lipitor like pharma bro tried to do with Daraprim.
This is a general question as I realize some jobs need to test for marijuana.
However, now that states are legalizing marijuana and the effects seem to be no worse than a hangover from alcohol, is it time to stop testing for it unless the specific job requires it. Testing for other drugs is fine, of course.
What doesn't make sense is why some people are so adamant about doing mind altering drugs (I'm not talking about medical uses). I love sugary sweets, but if my job required me to abstain from my snickers or M&Ms, I would learn to do without. It's an indulgence and not something that I need to survive.
I've never used an illegal drug in my life, but why would I want to work for somebody who wants to test me for what I do in my private life?
Also, I like my work because it pays for my indulgences. Why work for somebody who wants to take them away?
I've never used an illegal drug in my life, but why would I want to work for somebody who wants to test me for what I do in my private life?
I don't think employers much care about what you do in your private life. They just don't want your private life habit to be carried into work one day leading to an accident resulting in the death or dismemberment of you or another employee costing them thousands/millions of dollars.
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