as of 2017, recreational marijuana use is now completely legal in California.
Can any nurses provide insight as to how most facilities will regard this issue? As long as you don't come to work impaired, will you still get fired for recreational use?
Im a new grad RN about to start working in a correctional facility, and I quit smoking about 2 months ago, as I don't want to take any chances. However, I would assume that attitides on this issue will be continuing to change, and it may be rocky for the first few years.
To both poster quoted and everyone else directing criticism to the employers..
When the majority of society decides marijuana use is acceptable and testing parameters are established then employers can follow suit. But when society as a whole votes marijuana as illegal, there's too much liability. That's not on the govt or the employer, iit's on most of everyone we share this country with.
The majority of people in this country has already decided marijuana use is acceptable. Look at virtually any polling done on this issue in the past decade. It is the politicians who support for-profit prisons who are dragging their feet when it comes to testing parameters and removing MJ from a schedule 1 drug.
The majority of society has already decided on that marijuana should be legal.
The majority of people in this country has already decided marijuana use is acceptable. Look at virtually any polling done on this issue in the past decade. It is the politicians who support for-profit prisons who are dragging their feet when it comes to testing parameters and removing MJ from a schedule 1 drug.
The majority of society has already decided on that marijuana should be legal.
Then the majority needs to vote for US congressmen and US congresswomen who favor legalization of marijuana.
The majority also needs to NOT vote for a President who is opposed to marijuana legalization.
Oh, wait...
the majority voted for Hillary Clinton, who won the popular vote. She has definitely come around to the idea of marijuana legalization, and is at least 100% supportive of medical-marijuana legalization.
Bernie Sanders was 100% supportive of federally legal marijuana, as well as universal single-payer healthcare and affordable & accessible college.
He also received endorsement from most of the major nurses associations and unions.
...and absolutely none of this changes the fact that, statistically, the majority of Americans support marijuana legalization.
the majority voted for Hillary Clinton, who won the popular vote. She has definitely come around to the idea of marijuana legalization, and is at least 100% supportive of medical-marijuana legalization.
...and absolutely none of this changes the fact that, statistically, the majority of Americans support marijuana legalization.
Hillary Clinton in favor of medical marijuana + Hillary Clinton won popular vote= majority of Americans support marijuana legalization?
So, you are saying that if a voter agreed with everything Hillary said except for marijuana legalization they would have voted for Trump. Since they voted for Hillary, then they all must be in favor of legalization.
No, actually. I'm saying the majority of the US supports marijuana legalization, based on well-known statistics and polling.
However, the majority of the population doesn't vote in congressional elections, and the Presidential election in regards to how the population views marijuana is unreliable.
if the politicians actually represented the will or interest of the people, marijuana would be federally legal by now. We all know this is, unsurprisingly, not the case.
The majority of people in this country has already decided marijuana use is acceptable. Look at virtually any polling done on this issue in the past decade. It is the politicians who support for-profit prisons who are dragging their feet when it comes to testing parameters and removing MJ from a schedule 1 drug.
The majority of society has already decided on that marijuana should be legal.
Nice try with the stats game but you have to read what they are actually supporting.
This is now a new administration. Neither Bernie or Hillary is the President. Trump is not in favor and Sessions has already put undoing legalization of marijuana high on his list of things to do. Sessions is the top cop and can choose to enforce Federal law at any time anywhere.
Also, as long as your employer has ties to Federally funded money or insurance, no pot for you. Of course you could go work for DISH.
Edit link didn't work but it is easy to Google the breakdown of what people are actually in favor of.
however, the majority generally doesn't vote for congressional races.
Then they have no right to complain when congressmen and congresswomen who are elected by people who DO bother to vote for them don't follow the mandate of people who didn't bother to show up at the polls.
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Elky said:
Since this issue is so new and many policies and limitations have yet to be defined, I assume many aspects of that situation would be uncertain.
if that happened to me, personally, I would indeed get a lawyer and sue the hell out of them. No precedence has really been set legally one way or the other, and until a big case develops and gains media attention, confusion will continue to ensue.
And in Washington, where the state Supreme Court has ruled that use of medical marijuana is not a protected class, and employees can be terminated for using marijuana. Several other states have similar rulings.
At the small to very large healthcare systems in Washington where I have worked, everyone from part-time environmental services to C-level officers were tested at the time of hire and for cause afterwards. Generally speaking, a drug test positive for any one of a number of different substances could, and often did, lead to revocation of a job offer or termination.
It has been many years since I clinically touched a patient, but as a senior executive, I am still subject to drug testing upon demand if I wish to keep my job. It is one reason why I don't use marijuana, even though Washington permits it for medical and recreational purposes.
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The majority of people in this country has already decided marijuana use is acceptable. Look at virtually any polling done on this issue in the past decade. It is the politicians who support for-profit prisons who are dragging their feet when it comes to testing parameters and removing MJ from a schedule 1 drug.
The majority of society has already decided on that marijuana should be legal.