The Cannabis Conundrum
Why Your Current Drug and Alcohol Policy May Have Gone to Pot
For employers that already have a Drug and Alcohol Policy, the following language should be very familiar:
Employees should report to work fit for duty and free of any adverse effects of illegal drugs or alcohol. This policy does not prohibit employees from the lawful use and possession of prescribed medications.l
Just about every drug and alcohol policy contained language such as this, and every employer with such a policy likely believed the policy prohibited their employees from coming to work "high" on marijuana. And until recently, those employers were correct. Now however, due to rampant changes in the laws regarding marijuana, those prohibitions may have gone up in smoke (no pun intended).
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