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ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: Feds (Obama) to stop prosecuting medical marijuana users (10/20/2009 6:34:22 PM)
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i'm wondering if this decision will affect corporate pre-employment drug testing? Pro'bly not now that the precedent has been set...sigh.
No, I don't see how it would. It's still illegal. I don't see how this would cause any employer to change their policies.
But it would be legal within state assigned guidelines.
Employers don't have a choice really, it's the insurance fuddy duddy's who require the testing...(people with starched white shirts and narrow black neckties).
It depends on the job, though. For instance, if you want to work in transportation, most companies won't hire you if you tests positive, period - medical user or not. If you smoke dope, you're not getting behind the wheel of one of their trucks or buses, and that's that. Lots of other fields will be the same way - as you say, because of the insurance companies. I don't see it changing much, because almost any type of work involves operating some sort of machinery or something else that could be considered a safety hazard for people who are impaired.
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