Why Legalization Isn't A Hall Pass For Recreational Users At Work
Cannabis legalization challenges a lot of the norms we have held to be true. It has been considered an illegal drug for decades and hasn't been allowed in the workplace.
Legalization of medical cannabis has been the first challenge for employers and legal recreational use brings up many more questions.
The thing that's unique about cannabis is it has both medical and recreational uses. This means there have to be two sets of rules in the workplace – accommodating medical use and restricting recreational usage.
We have established in past articles that employers have a duty to accommodate medical cannabis in the workplace when a patient has a valid prescription.
Recreational consumers will have different rules than medical ones
What about recreational use? Both employers and employees should realize this isn't a free pass for people to be impaired any time and place.
To add another layer of complexity to...
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