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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Legal Marijuana States Aren't That Safe for Pot-Smoking Employees, Survey Finds 🌿Legal Marijuana States Aren't That Safe for Pot-Smoking Employees, Survey Finds
A recent study in states where medical or recreational marijuana is legal shows that most employers haven't let the social shift in legalization soften their tolerance, or lack thereof, regarding employees who test positive for the substance.
Conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management, the survey polled 623 human resource professionals in nineteen states where medical marijuana is legal and four states and Washington D.C., where cannabis is legal for adult-use. The results showed that most employers are still following federal laws and guidelines despite operating in states that have laws allowing forms of marijuana use.
According to the study, 41 percent of respondents in states where medical and/or recreational marijuana are legal fired first-time offenders who tested positive for it, and 50 percent of respondents in states where only medical use is legal did the same; it also reported that 44 percent of survey participants in...
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