Colorado owners of medical marijuana dispensaries and their vendors will now undergo background checks. According to The Republic, the bill goes into effect July 1st, 2011. The state Department of Revenue began issuing licenses Thursday for people who work in marijuana shops. Employees will have to be licensed to show that they meet residency […]
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Okay, so you conduct employment screening on your new job applicants and one of the background checks is a drug test. You have a zero tolerance policy within your workplace, and now this highly desirable employment candidate returns positive on his drug test. As an employer you discover that he has health issues and […]
As with the implementation of many new practices, the medical marijuana issue has brought up a number of questions about its use in the workplace. One such issue involves an employer’s zero tolerance drug policy and how it is affected by an employee being licensed for medical marijuana. Another is the actual use of medical […]
There is much controversy and many legal battled are taking place in the states that have legitimized medical marijuana. As most of the laws were defined pretty loosely, there is a debate regarding the employee’s rights to come to work having imbibed some medical marijuana and the employer to determine whether that same employee is fit to work on […]