New cannabis protection law ignites in California with new year
New cannabis protection law ignites in California with new year
A new law will prevent California employers from punishing employees for recreational use outside of work hours starting January 1. While current and prospective workers can still be tested, they cannot be disciplined unless they are high at the time of the test.
For years, people would take a drug test and they could fail if they had ingested marijuana within 2-6 weeks of taking a test. But a new law protects workers if they use marijuana recreationally, and it shows up on a test.
VP of Human Resources for Optima Health Jilian Dimitt believes the new law helps employers.
“The new law just reinforces that employees who are using marijuana for recreational use, are going to be allowed to continue to do that. They don’t have to worry about it,” she said. “What Newsom did was make sure employers could not prohibit them from doing it. They could not take any adverse action against them. The key thing is, you can’t come into work under the influence or bring it into the workplace and obviously you can’t smoke pot in the workplace.”
She says the new testing will be key. It’ll need to show active traces of THC that actually cause impairment to a person’s ability to do their job for a worker to be punished or for a candidate to not be hired.
“So many people are smoking pot so they’ll still be able to get good workers, they’ll just be able to get good workers who aren’t coming to work under the influence,” Dimitt said.
But nationally-recognized cannabis lifestyle reporter Jackie Bryant who is based in San Diego believes the new law is not practical or feasible. She says drug testing technology does not actually exist that can assess whether a person is intoxicated by THC at that exact moment or not or how long it has been since it was ingested.
“Knowing that there’s no definitive science knowing when someone is acutely intoxicated from cannabis, there’s not a scientific test,” Bryant said. “That’s an obvious court case. It’s a legal quagmire. Why would you want to get into that for weed? Something that isn’t even heavily intoxicating.”
FULL STORY: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/california-law-protects-recreational-cannabis-users/509-ff0ea221-0f9e-4364-921a-d333e6030fbc
Oral drug tests are better
Let’s do this for commercial truck drivers now
protecting the weed smoking voters
Yeah good luck
If its legal the burdon of proof is on them to prove your currently on it
this doesn’t go far enough…there is still the "schedule 1" conundrum. It needs to be rescheduled. Biden promised it but is not keeping his word…go figure. it’s a gray line between federal/state rules/laws
This law should fall by the wayside. Who wants a bunch of stoned out people on the highway, in the grocery store or any place else? I live in Denver and where ever I walk I smell that strong stench of dope. I see dopeheads on the roads doing moronic things and try talking to some fat head kid anyplace. He is lost, in la-la land. Pot today is much stronger than it was 20 years ago…
Sounds good, but it can take a month for thc to leave your system
I read the news today, oh boy. The land of the free finally freed the weed. And though the news was rather glad I just had to laugh. There was a photograph. Crystals sparkled on the buds. We all noticed that the light was fair. A crowd of people came to share. We’d seen it all before, as none of us had a chance to ever be on the list of Forbes.
BANNED CANNABIS!!!!
THIS IS EPIC
Awesome🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Just smoke it at home. Long story short.
Why the fuck is a stupid bitch holding up 2 bongs
Sweet does this apply to military (sarcasm heavy)
This is wrong. No one should be under the influence of drugs while working
Does this new law apply to safety sensitive transportation workers?
What about class A drivers??
She’s casually showing off her own bong
Mouth Saliva Test can Prove if current use within the day if you brushed ur teeth. That chick a dummy
Nice
Nice work I love it?
So in other words Amazon drivers can be high as a kite.airline pilots can be stoned.if you smoke pot you lose your short term memory big time .when a major crash happens linked too this law happens .we must blame California in the lawsuit.dont these liberal idiots even think about the consequences of these laws.they just want too make it legal to smoke pot at the state capitol
Then there is us in the UK who are forced to watch the rest of the world move forward as we sit here. If you open a UK paper you will see headlines about Covid breaches still to this day being frontpage news. Its pathetic. We hold the worst drug policy in Europe and the most hardcore addicts but the parents of children with seizures are forced to buy illegal marijuana for their child’s wellbeing.
bout freaking time
so will this fly for first responders? asking because i am one lol
Expect poor performance at work!!!
Factz
Caugh you up to 90 days+
New Whitehouse regulations coming soon!!
ban weed
Super
saliva will still show positive for 4 days after use they will not pay for the testing that actually shows amounts
Why are they showing them burning it? It’s all herb vaporizers these days. Much healthier.
I hate the term "recreational purposes". Most people that don’t use it for pain are simply trying to relax (since they can’t due to our disgusting world).
You mean they treating weed like alcohol?! The scandal!
unless there is a true test that can prove you re under the influence at that moment how can they tell , I know some people are obvious but if you look tired with red eyes are you an instant suspect for being high now?
Laws change, good weed don’t
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This is so stupid. Just what we need — more clueless, disaffected potheads aimlessly roaming the streets with that glazed-over look in their eyes… I am so sick of smelling that wretched, rancid, disgusting smell everywhere I go! I would rather smell cigarette smoke than wretch-inducing pot smoke!!
But i work construction 😢 oh well ..
0:21 So the new law is to use the bong on the left? HUH!
So if you have a real career you still can’t smoke weed lol lame. Construction, government, twic type jobs. Refineries etc lame. You if you work at taco bell you can still smoke weed you just can’t get fired now lmao
More bureaucracy.
As a Californian I can tell you we are high AF
Dooes this go for trucker driver with a local company in California
So calafonia saying it’s ok to smoke a hour before he or she goes to work. Ends up getting hurt or enjures someone else
ok lets get real its so democrats creating the shit laws we have now can get high before going in!
As children .recreation was toys, playing in the park, football or exploring etc..now it’s getting stoned…too stoned to move….lol.
Truck Drivers protected? Asking for a friend 😅.
who the hell thought the nails at 0:38 would be a good idea to put on TV??? disgusting!!!!!!!!!111111