Pubdate: Wed, 17 Jun 2015
Source: Denver Post (CO)
Copyright: 2015 The Denver Post Corp
Contact:  http://www.denverpost.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/122
Author: Jack Farrar
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n326/a03.html

Re: "Ruling blow to medical pot use," June 16 news story.

WRONG ON EMPLOYEE POT USE

The lab results are back. The Colorado Supreme Court, using a 
contorted definition of "lawful," has just tested positive for 
judicial absurdity. Unanimously. In deciding that an employer has the 
right to fire someone for using marijuana outside the workplace - 
even though there is no evidence indicating that the use affects the 
individual's on-the-job performance - the court has ignored fact and 
science and imposed a moral code.

What is perhaps most disturbing about this case is that the employee, 
an individual with a significant disability who uses marijuana to 
control muscle spasms, did not try to hide his use of marijuana.

Are all executives at Dish Network subject to drug testing? The 
chairman of the board? The senior vice president of human resources? 
What are the consequences of an employee using Cutty Sark or valium 
or prescribed opiates outside the workplace?

Fortunately, because of marketplace realities, more and more 
companies are not interfering with the lives of their employees by 
requiring marijuana drug testing - unless the use of marijuana can be 
logically linked to a job.

Jack Farrar,

Denver
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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom