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countrygirl12

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I do not use marijuana, but I think that it should depend on the job. If someone is working at a store, then it should be excluded, but if someone is a doctor or has a job where they need to be alert and focused all the time, yeah, they need to be tested.

Why should it be excluded if somebody works in a store? SO they are so stupid they can't figure out that $1.00 minus a quarter equals 75 cents? You need to be alert in a store as well as any where else.  You also need to be able to focus.  I certainly do not want to go in to a store to buy a cola or pay for gas and have to explain to the stone head behind the counter why they are there or how to work the card machine.

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INCLUDED! Hands down.  IMO If someone needs marijuana than they either shouldn't be working or don't need to be working.  I understand there are medical dispensaries available now & that's fine.  But for a patient to work while using there drug of choice that has side effects that could potentially danger themselves or others, effect production which effects other associates and naturally customers.  I also understand patients still have a need for a steady income.  I also know that there is a hefty price to pay for medication (Including weed) But that is not each corporations responsibility to absorb the risk of accidents or loss.

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no because certain jobs shouldn't be done if you are high on pot

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No it should be in the testing

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no because certain jobs shouldn't be done if you are high on pot

No job can be done correctly if you are high on pot.  Or anything else.

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Re: Should marijuana be excluded in drug test for employment? What do you think?
« Reply #35 on: September 08, 2018, 03:41:33 pm »
I don't know where you got your information but as far as I know 8 or 9 states have legalized it.  I don't know how you could exclude it from testing if it's illegal in that state. And every company certainly has the right to test for it even if it is legal in their state.

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Re: Should marijuana be excluded in drug test for employment? What do you think?
« Reply #36 on: September 08, 2018, 03:46:55 pm »

  Yes, it should be tested like any other drug.
  Public safety matters!  I’m

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Re: Should marijuana be excluded in drug test for employment? What do you think?
« Reply #37 on: September 09, 2018, 04:43:09 am »
Companies should still do drug testing on potential employees, but if they have a medical condition they should tell them before getting employed.

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Re: Should marijuana be excluded in drug test for employment? What do you think?
« Reply #38 on: September 09, 2018, 08:12:24 am »
No, it should not be excluded. As other posters have commented, it's still a drug and you can still be impaired by using it. In fact, in states where it is legal, one state has been complaining that there have been more accidents due to marijuana impairment than before it was legal. I still believe it leads to stronger drugs because sooner or later, the body will become immune to the affects and will need something stronger for the highs.

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Re: Should marijuana be excluded in drug test for employment? What do you think?
« Reply #39 on: September 09, 2018, 12:07:14 pm »
No I think it should no longer be included. If somebody came to work stoned, the high would probably last a relatively short amount of time anyways provided the person wasn't somehow sneaking drags while working. It should be barred in certain types of jobs though like working dangerous machinery or driving or something like that where a stoned person could possibly get hurt or hurt someone else.

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Re: Should marijuana be excluded in drug test for employment? What do you think?
« Reply #40 on: September 09, 2018, 01:47:58 pm »
I think any and all drugs should be included in employment drug tests.  No, I don't think marijuana should be excluded from employment  drug tests.
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Re: Should marijuana be excluded in drug test for employment? What do you think?
« Reply #41 on: September 15, 2018, 07:34:05 am »
INCLUDED! Hands down.  IMO If someone needs marijuana than they either shouldn't be working or don't need to be working.  I understand there are medical dispensaries available now & that's fine.  But for a patient to work while using there drug of choice that has side effects that could potentially danger themselves or others, effect production which effects other associates and naturally customers.  I also understand patients still have a need for a steady income.  I also know that there is a hefty price to pay for medication (Including weed) But that is not each corporations responsibility to absorb the risk of accidents or loss.

Nobody needs pot.

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Re: Should marijuana be excluded in drug test for employment? What do you think?
« Reply #42 on: September 15, 2018, 07:35:17 am »
No, it should not be excluded. As other posters have commented, it's still a drug and you can still be impaired by using it. In fact, in states where it is legal, one state has been complaining that there have been more accidents due to marijuana impairment than before it was legal. I still believe it leads to stronger drugs because sooner or later, the body will become immune to the affects and will need something stronger for the highs.

Most drug addicts will tell you that they got started using drugs by smoking pot.

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Re: Should marijuana be excluded in drug test for employment? What do you think?
« Reply #43 on: September 15, 2018, 07:38:45 am »
No I think it should no longer be included. If somebody came to work stoned, the high would probably last a relatively short amount of time anyways provided the person wasn't somehow sneaking drags while working. It should be barred in certain types of jobs though like working dangerous machinery or driving or something like that where a stoned person could possibly get hurt or hurt someone else.

So it is okay to come to work doped out of your mind as long as it doesn't last very long?

If someone gets hurt on the job the employer has to pay the medical expenses.  As a business owner I should not have to pay because somebody is doped up.

It doesn't matter what they job is.  Even a cashier.  If you are doped up you are too stupid to count change.  We have had guys who smoked pot at lunch and they come back and are so slow and stupid they can't even figure out how to push a broom and they seem to think it is funny.

Personally, I do not want to be around anybody who has been using drugs.  PERIOD!

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Re: Should marijuana be excluded in drug test for employment? What do you think?
« Reply #44 on: September 15, 2018, 11:01:27 am »
not really

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