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    MizJenkinsTaylor Berman
    4/25/13 8:43pm

    As a matter of public policy this seems pretty fucked. In an already struggling economy you're going to deny employment to an otherwise qualified person with a disability that already greatly limits his ability to find gainful employment? All because he's using a substance (under the care of his physician) in order to overcome chronic pain so that he can maintain some semblance of a normal life and livelihood???

    What does that accomplishment besides forcing him to become a burden on the State?

    And how is this not covered by the ADA?

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      Philip WesterMizJenkins
      4/25/13 9:03pm

      Because the only people who do pot in Colorado do so because of medical reasons...

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      MizJenkinsPhilip Wester
      4/25/13 9:27pm

      I don't think anyone's saying that, but I'm also not sure how useful it is to deal in snide hypotheticals when an actual, identifiable person who has been directly injured by the application of these laws is in front of us.

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    Jecht342Taylor Berman
    4/25/13 7:55pm

    I seem to recall someone who was a part of this marijuana debate in Colorado being on Bill Maher's show and specifically saying that they wrote the law so that you could still be fired for using it. It was more business friendly that way. I'm kind of on the fence on that part of it. I think maybe it should just be like alcohol. As far as I know, you can't be fired for drinking in your spare time, but you can definitely be fired for drinking on the job or if in other ways it is affecting your work. Once they made it legal, you shouldn't be able to get fired just for testing positive on a drug test, especially as in this case if it was medicinal.

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      TenorSoundsJecht342
      4/25/13 8:02pm

      I think the comparison to alcohol is completely valid in this case. Both are recreational chemicals that can be used responsibly. It's a shame there's still a stigma on marijuana.

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      Jecht342TenorSounds
      4/25/13 8:10pm

      Yeah, the stigma is still there but it is declining. Polling is moving more towards legalization. Plus, people who aren't normally associated with the legalize pot movement are getting on board like LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition). Personally, I've never smoked pot and I've only tried alcohol a few times and I'm strongly in favor of legalization. Marijuana just isn't worse than alcohol and in some ways it's not as bad and the drug war has been a complete failure. Let's legalize it, tax it, and use some of that tax money to try to reduce use of harder drugs.

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    emmabrocker2Taylor Berman
    4/25/13 8:24pm

    Cigarettes are legal, on the federal and the state level, and 32 states say you can get fired if you have nicotine in your system.

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      Jigglypuffsemmabrocker2
      4/26/13 12:36am

      Prove to me this has ever been enforced.

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      emmabrocker2Jigglypuffs
      4/26/13 1:26pm

      Read the comment thread you're responding to. People are posting links.

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    erischildeTaylor Berman
    4/26/13 1:39pm

    What eats my balls is when it's used medicinally, how is that any different than opiates?
    After a surgery you'll show up positive for heroin as long as you're on painkillers. But opiates are ok.
    THC (pill/tincture/smoke/eat) doesn't qualify? Idiots.

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      ghanediTaylor Berman
      4/26/13 9:47am

      This happened to a fella in Michigan after they legalized medical marijuana, too. :-/

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