Cannabis At Work: Dealing With The Stigma
I'm an HR pro by trade and I recently went to an employment law seminar. The topic? The implications of medical marijuana in the workplace.
The speaker who opened the session was a lawyer, and let's just say he didn't present medical marijuana in an objective, balanced light. Quite the opposite, really.
He began by saying there were more marijuana dispensaries in Vancouver than Starbucks, a story Civilized covered recently. The jury's out on whether that's true or not.
But he shocked the conservative HR audience, which I believe was his intention. He went on to use terms like "stoner" and "pothead." He referred to employees leaving their "hash brownies" in the lunchroom and said medical cannabis is "not a real drug." He said all of this to a group of HR professionals who, like most of the population, are not well-educated on medical marijuana because it's a relatively...
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