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Oregon ended marijuana prohibition at midnight Wednesday, joining Colorado, Washington state, Alaska and the District of Columbia in legalizing recreational use of the drug.
The new law means Oregon likely will reap benefits that appear to have followed legalization elsewhere: Reduced crime, from a legal industry supplanting a black market; higher tax revenue, once weed is legal to sell; and police forces and courts unburdened by droves of misdemeanor pot offenders.
Oregon voters in November approved Measure 91 with 56 percent of the vote. As of now, adults 21 and older can legally possess up to eight ounces of marijuana inside their home and up to one ounce outside. Adults can grow up to four plants per household, out of public view.
Sign of the times.
Original Submission
(Score: 3, Interesting) by kaszz on Thursday July 02 2015, @02:48PM
Why Drug Test? [questdiagnostics.com]
Employees who abuse drugs are 2.5 times more likely than other non-substance abusing coworkers to be absent for >8 days. Drug abusers are 3.6 times more likely to be involved in an accident at work and 5 times more likely to file a workers compensation claim. 44% of abusers have sold drugs to other employees and 18% have stolen from co-workers to support their habit.
It seems to all boil down to be a more profitable peon and secondary treating co-workers nicely. The first reason should not be underestimated.
"much of the cost resulting from lost work productivity and increased healthcare spending."
Well perhaps they should have a fast food and stress test too..
Oh WAIT the stress test may reflect on incompetent management. No-go ;)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by AndyTheAbsurd on Thursday July 02 2015, @03:02PM
And as usual, there is confusion between "drug user" and "drug abuser". Because, of course, we all know, if a drug is made illegal by the federal government, then any use of that drug is abuse. </sarcasm>
Please note my username before responding. You may have been trolled.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 02 2015, @03:36PM
Perhaps drug use consequences and probability for specific things to occur?
(Score: 2) by AndyTheAbsurd on Friday July 03 2015, @01:44PM
That's the reason for the sarcasm tag at the end of my comment - there's no connection between "drug use consequences and probability for specific things to occur" and where a drug ends up on the DEA's "schedule" of narcotics. If there was, marijuana would be off the schedule and alcohol would be Schedule I (which is basically the "if we catch you with this, we'll throw you in prison for a while" group).
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Thursday July 02 2015, @06:36PM
But there is a lot of wiggle room in their statistics that they don't want you to look at too closely.
Nowhere does it say that these absences are drug related, (correlation / causation), or the result of arrests for mere possession which will not happen now that it is legal. (In fact the 8 day absence sounds more like an alcoholic's relapse than anything else.)
Further they lump all drugs together, and gloss over the fact that Alcohol is thrown in there too. Toss those out and everything looks different. Current testing methods can't aren't capable of distinguishing a marijuana yesterday from a joint smoked during today's coffee break.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by M. Baranczak on Thursday July 02 2015, @10:54PM
Current testing methods can't aren't capable of distinguishing a marijuana yesterday from a joint smoked during today's coffee break.
You're right. Better smoke a marijuana on coffee break every day just to be sure you're getting high.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 02 2015, @11:13PM
Employees using alcohol is perhaps neither a good idea. But I guess you say that drug (as in cannabis etc) users are less prone to upset the workplace?
Another risk down the road is peer pressure to smoke weed just like drinking alcohol is today.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @06:50AM
What do you mean "down the road"? There's a lot more peer pressure to smoke weed than drink, because its illegal.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday July 02 2015, @09:15PM
What's "drug abuse"?
What about the workers' rights to do what they want outside of work?
Here's a thought: measure absenteeism and performance rather than urine.
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 02 2015, @11:18PM
If you look at the text in my post that says "drug abuse" it's the drug testing company that generated it.
As for work. Only performance and courtesy should be the important factors to benchmark employees to.
(Score: 2) by umafuckitt on Friday July 03 2015, @06:25AM
I went to the website. It's obviously from the company selling the tests. There are citations, but these aren't peer-reviewed publications. They're all links to the same website and going to those links tells you nothing about how those numbers were generated. We don't even know how "abuser" is defined. Without that, their claims are meaningless.