Medical Marijuana

[killersmart1]

Hello Everyone

Comments

[flwyd]

I would hope the Drug Free Workplace Act would prevent people on drowsiness-inducing cold medicine from operating machinery, too.

Regardless of how legal pot or booze are, going to work high or drunk is unprofessional.

[randomorbit]

it doesn't say anything about recreational Marijuana, so I think you're golden.

[overand]

"If an employee feels like they have a need for medical marijuana we would highly recommend you work with your physician to identify alternative ways to treat your condition."

Funny, how they imply it's the patient's desire for the substance rather than the doctor's order, here.

Re: flwyd - one assumes the issue here - besides a matter of ethics - is that many companies perform drug testing. These don't indicate if you're HIGH AT WORK - only what you've used semi-recently. Drug testing is - in my opinion - a violation of privacy. If someone on a vacation from work travels to a country where Marijuana (or whatever substance) is not illegal, then returns to the United States, and is drug tested at work - they can lose their job, regardless of not having violated any laws, and not having been under the influence of substances at the workplace.

[killersmart1]

There are medical marijuana patients out there who do work while high, and some of them need to be high to do their jobs. I don't know if that's true in health care, but there are very high-functioning potheads out there.

[overand]

Obviously - some absurdly high number of network engineers I'm aware of are functional potheads. Tempting to imagine a "marijuana users walk-out week" - it would probably cripple the telecom and IT industries - which would of course cripple everything else. But... yeah.