Legal marijuana use still costs people jobs. A new California bill takes on the issue

California voters legalized pot in 2016. But for many seeking jobs in state government, cannabis use has become an obstacle to getting hired.

Assemblyman Rob Bonta is taking a first step at addressing the issue. He introduced legislation Friday that would require employers in both the public and private sectors to accommodate workers and job applicants who use marijuana for medical purposes, which was legalized in California in 1996. “Widespread, regular marijuana use has been essentially promoted by our state government,” said Kevin Sabet, president of the national group Smart Approaches to Marijuana. “We are moving so fast towards complete acceptance of being high without understanding the public safety implications.”

“There are plenty of workplace and public safety reasons to disqualify applicants who test positive,” Chipman said. “There are no reasons to relax the current rules.”Nationwide, the rate of positive drug tests in the private and public sector workforces hit a fourteen-year high in 2018, the last year for which statistics are available, reaching 4.4% for all drugs, according to an analysis by Quest Diagnostics, based on 10 million tests it processed.

The California Chamber of Commerce is generally opposed to restricting the ability of companies to conduct pre-employment drug tests. Many state workers are not subject to drug testing when they apply for a job, but such tests are mandated for some workers at 25 agencies including Caltrans, where federal highway safety rules apply to truck drivers and heavy equipment operators. Caltrans has seen a slight uptick in the number of job applicants disqualified for marijuana use in the last two years compared to the two years before Proposition 64.

It is an abuse of workers rights to fire someone for legally smoking marijuana, it is also an unconstitutional invasion of privacy. Being stoned in the job is one thing, but what you do on your own free time is not your employer’s business.

On occasion, heavy equipment is used in my operations. There is no way I allow someone to operate that equipment if there is any hint they are under the influence. Just commin sense.

Why aren't they testing for alcohol use/abuse?

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