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
Does this include law enforcement officers in California?
Another stupid law. Newsom is the worst Governor ever,has destroyed California.
Awesome🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Looks like visine is about to make ALOT of money.
Alcohol manager s need to be fired and replaced
What a joke
Does this apply to healthcare workers
Possession of over an ounce is still a felony in ca. Know someone who was just charged
They’re smoking before going to work, and guess what? They won’t showed up for work or they will do stupid things. Smoke=cancer and it is the first step for other bad habits. On top of that, you are wasting your money !
What about Class A drivers?
Best Law ever! This will open all kinds of doors for me now. Love it.
So how will this apply to truck drivers? Cuz I really wanna smoke again…
Potheads are not good workers 😂😂😂 i used to be laziest man alive. Now i buy stocks🎉🎉
This isn’t just for the industry right? How can you tell if they’re high right then? And there. they all have a test that tells you if you’re high right, then?What if you’re on other medications like anti depressed since. could that change the outcome?
In ca they still arresting people for weed.
Marijuana is safe
Why didn’t the law protect medical use only reason they allow it is because they have no options everyone is smoking now days
North Koreans are allowed to smoke all the marijuana they desire and are allowed to do it publicly!
I worked every day high at work and noone even knew lol and i was good at my job to
Nice😊
Well thank God they are protecting pot. 🙄
Screw the lawful gun owners. 🤬
Priorities, right newsome? 💩
Oral drug tests are better
you cannot be serious what the clown you cannot drive or you go to prison
Got fired after a positive test at BootBarn distribution, even though I LITERALLY spoke face to face with my supervisor before hand, telling him I use it and even have a medical rec. and he said “oh your ok, don’t worry”
..I’m then fired automatically, after my positive goes through to corporate.. so, make a call to the lawyer, get my copies of my recommendation and some published medical studies on cannabis remaining in the system for extended periods without being metabolized.. all attached together on a forward email from my lawyers “letterhead” along with my very carefully worded and completely legal “threat” basically lol I cited multiple instances of inconsistency with the drug policy that are on record and pretty much said if you shit-can a cannabis patient with Crohn’s who told you before testing that he’s using it medically that BootBarn will face the force of both the legal system and the public eye taking a major PR hit when I blast it all over the internet
I was politely invited to come back and resume my job unloading trucks as the lead fork driver for receiving. I smiled a smug victorious grin as I walked in again seeing my supervisor and The manager clearly disgusted to be bested by a stoner.. serves them right, I worked like a machine for them, often lending a hand to other departments when I was already ahead in my own department, cleaned and organized random areas, tons of extra shit nobody ever asked me to do, because u was ahead of schedule and I don’t like to just stand around. But yeah lazy stoner stereotype huh..
Became their official cannabis policy after that.
Ended up suing and winning anyways when they went full-dictator for covid, both me and my wife, had a drunk fork driver almost drive a pallet into my pregnant wife who worked nearby, after we repeatedly told them about his performance and drinking on the job, and they had me doing 14 hour days 6 days a week and started threatening to fire me or rather strongly implying “I’d have no job suddenly” 🙄 if I didn’t start skipping by 15 min breaks and even taking half my lunch.. and the clock in and out times just kept stretching a little earlier each morning and like twenty to thirty min after you “clock out” at night you’d be there just “helping” they called it.. yeah helping unload one more 53’ truck while the manager watches me standing there doing nothing. They started standing at the end of the trucks making sure guys didn’t take a breather for more than like 2 min.. so they got another letter.. and they didn’t listen.. so they graciously gave us a settlement after my manager specifically said, directly to my wife’s face, that “if we sue them, which I know you won’t,” he said, “you’ll loose hahaha!” Laughing in her face.
Made sure to list the date time and witnesses present to his wrongful activities including showing employees memes on his personal cell phone with a big black cock hanging out and calling homosexual employees “fag” so i specifically included a line that said “BootBarns defense of this managers actions would be condoning hate speech and sexual harassment, that anything other than reprimanding him immediately with the same severity as any other employee regardless of position and title would again be condoning these actions.”
We got two settlement checks and a call from our lawyer saying he’s going to be investigated based on the claims we made but the dates times and other employees present that I listed makes it really easy to get witness accounts and subpoena his cell records for the illicit stuff he was sharing with other managers and showing to us employees. Lawyer said I pretty much handed BB’s legal team all they need to ruin this guy. Who TF’s laughing now
The blonde lady is self-deluded about the workers coming in sober. You guys should be showing the vape pens that don’t smell and are concentrated herb, perfect way to stay high all day.
If you are in construction or a federal job, you can’t smoke or get high
Im sure the pizza hut delivery drivers are happy for this
Yay
protecting the weed smoking voters
Does this new law apply to safety sensitive transportation workers?
must be nice, too bad every other law in your state is tyranical.
Caugh you up to 90 days+
Thanks Karen for finding the most fake ass smokers 😂 love the news
So since weed is legal, there is no need for it to come across our borders. Now more deadly drugs are coming across
This law is not good for automotive technicians.
Those people that speak against marijuana those people drink alcohol they do stubborn behaviors and they don’t consume marijuana what are you talking about what’s this thesis statement you’re trying to prove to me
so… the government is going to tell private businesses that they cannot fire someone from a job.
you Leftists just cannot wait for total Authoritarian rule. I fully expect you morons to celebrate the day the Social Credit system is enacted (like the one China uses).
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
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
so will this fly for first responders? asking because i am one lol
Weak immune systems all up in the workplace
75% of the People I worked with smokes Marijuana
Good thing about my Boss He always ask us if we are clean before taking a Drug Test if your dirty he will ask somebody else
Construction workers can’t use it??? They are the ones who need it the most, what the hell.
We have law enforcement that are alcoholics that is dangerous
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
Mouth Saliva Test can Prove if current use within the day if you brushed ur teeth. That chick a dummy
This is BS. The employer should be able to set the standards for THEIR EMPLOYEES! If the employers don’t want potheads that is their choice.
0:21 So the new law is to use the bong on the left? HUH!
Child groomer lover Newsom tries to ban firearms and push for drug use, that tells you everything
As we should, if you can drink off the job you can smoke off the job.