re: Vermont Legalizes Recreational Marijuana

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Really do not care about legalization or not but I am curious, does everyone think that Marijuana being legal means employers are going to stop with pre-employment and post-accident drug screens?

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Some will some won't. It will be interesting to see as what qualifies as "in your system" in a post accident screening

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Ok? So exactly where do the folks that smoke work? Seriously curious and I owned two companies where we could have opted out of testing but our insurance would have been ridiculously high if we had done so...

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I know a lot of people that smoke pot, and they are across a wide selection of industries. tech, marketing, non profits, small businesses, lawyers, service industry, oil/gas, etc. About the only people who I know that don't smoke for their jobs are either drivers or work in medical.

I will say that I know mostly professionals, so they aren't really at risk of accidents.

They might as well get the revenue up there. Everyone is hooked on heroin in that state so they might as well get some tax revenue from a lesser drug to combat the epidemic of the greater drug.

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I'm not a grower so I'm not for sure, but since only female plants bud, maybe it's so you have a better chance at two female plants.

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If that's true, makes sense

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If that's true, makes sense

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If what's true? That was just a guess.

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Vermont Legalizes Recreational Marijuana

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good

I was already moving to Vermont in the next few months.
This is a surprising bit of good news on my soon to be new state.

I sure hope so and I'm not a smoker. I just think its asinine for weed to be illegal and a complete joke.

I seriously doubt people are pan handling due to weed. It's not that type of drug like alcohol, cocaine, or heroin is.

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Really do not care about legalization or not but I am curious, does everyone think that Marijuana being legal means employers are going to stop with pre-employment and post-accident drug screens?

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Not all of them, of course, but some legal states are seeing sizable decreases in the number of companies that screen for cannabis.

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So far, companies in states that have legalized either recreational or medicinal marijuana are leading the way on dropping drug tests. A survey last year by the Mountain States Employers Council of 609 Colorado employers found that the share of companies testing for marijuana use fell to 66 percent, down from 77 percent the year before.

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Companies are having a hard enough time hiring, with unemployment hovering around 4 percent. “Employers are really strapped and saying, ‘We’re going to forgive certain things,’” says James Reidy, a lawyer who works with employers on their human resources policies. Reidy knows of a half-dozen other large employers that have quietly changed their policies in recent years. Not all companies want to advertise the change, fearing it might imply they are soft on drugs.

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“We assume that a certain level of employees are going to be partaking on the weekends,” said Reidy, the employment lawyer. “We don’t care. We’re going to exclude a whole group of people, and we desperately need workers.”

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