Employers get a discount on their workman's comp insurance if it is a drug free work place.
The effects of marijuana can last 12-24 hours so smoking weed on your own time is a poor excuse.
Security guard potheads are pretty stupid.
so if something affects you while at work, it should be illegal?
there are plenty of people that drink a cup of coffee or soda too late, don't sleep well, and their job performance suffers. coffee should be illegal?
there are people whose personal life causes their work performance to suffer. sick children cause them to take time off, elderly parents cause worry and stress and decreased attention at work. should we outlaw the family, or just the emotions?
some people eat mexican food and it gives them gas, bloating with cramps, and diarrhea, all severe distractions to driving a motor vehicle which endangers everyone on the road..
bland diets for everyone!
everything we do interacts with everything else. you can't possibly make everything illegal because it's going to interfere with something else.
I'm not sure how many security guards you've known, but I've known several and they all smoked weed, as did the owner of the company. I've also known cops, firefighters, lawyers, large business owners, heavy construction equipment operators, medical professionals, and paramedics that enjoy(ed) smoking weed.
You must be another pot smoker too. What RIGHTS are you talking about? Should someone have the RIGHT to get stoned while at work especially if he is in a security position and carrying a gun? Should the employer not have the RIGHT to fire someone working under the influence of drugs or alcohol? What about the RIGHTS of the company that he is supplying security for? The issue at hand is NOT what he was doing on his own time but rather the fact that he failed a urine test on company time. He had drugs in his system which was a violation of his employment.
we have a no drugs or alcohol policy at work which I am sure pretty much all places have as well. AFAIK nobody has ever been asked to submit except in the very few cases where someone was hurt in an accident. In those cases it is mandatory to submit to a urine test to determine if alcohol or drugs were a factor in the accident. That is their right to do. It is their insurance plan that takes a hit when someone is injured on the job.
I didn't say anything about getting stoned at work, and the information I had at the time was simply that he had bought it and was fired as a consequence. I fully understand the need for sober employees, end the employer should be able to fire someone for being intoxicated at work.
However...
depending on the type of test, it's entirely possible he was not intoxicated at work and should not have been fired for doing something that shouldn't have been illegal in the first place.
While I have smoked in the past, it's been many years since I have.
The right I'm talking about is the right to do what I please with my own body, and whether or not I partake in it is irrelevant to my reasoning. I'm in favor of decriminalization of many things that are simply a persons choice to do what they want with their own bodies.
at the same time I think there are many things that go on daily that should be severely curtailed. things that are allowed that cause damage to billions of people, plants, animals, and the air, water and habitat that we all need to survive.
:bdh:
