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The disconnect between the classification of state-sanctioned cannabis and the federal prohibition of cannabis has created another impossible situation for the law to resolve. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on June 15th that companies can legally fire employees who use cannabis.
The Department of National Intelligence recently issued a statement reminding all federal employees that at no time and under no circumstances are they allowed to use cannabis, even if they are residents of states that have legalized recreational cannabis or if they are authorized medical marijuana patients.
Although the legalization and decriminalization of cannabis in many areas of the U.S. may have many of us feeling as though we are free to emerge from the shadows of cannabis prejudice and no longer conceal our personal choices, it is worth remembering that anti-cannabis attitudes are likely still held by many people in our lives.
I decided to peruse Craigslist and see what types of jobs require pre-employment drug screening. Keep in mind, I live in Washington with legal weed.
The industry created over ten thousand new jobs and brought in approximately $19 million a month. Rather than bringing about the end of society as we know it, cannabis legalization is only improving the job market and giving people a good time.
The backward logic of cannabis prohibition continues to create problems for fully functioning, responsible employees who are discriminated against by employers just because they partake of cannabis in their free time.
With so much interest from around the country about the legal cannabis shops and how to get in on the action, it’s not at all surprising that there is keen interest in how to get licensed to run or even just work in a Colorado marijuana store.
Calling all pot farmers: Uncle Sam is looking to buy. An arm of the National Institutes of Health dedicated to researching drug abuse and addiction “intends” to solicit proposals from those who can “harvest, process, analyze, store and distribute” cannabis, according to a listing posted Tuesday night on a federal government website.
For a state sandwiched between the legal pot haven of Washington and the heavily-medical marijuana saturation in California, Oregon sure exhibits some backwater ways of thinking. Oregon has been more or less a stick in the mud, refusing to allow the flood of popular marijuana use budge them from the last century.
Veteran journalist Al Olson has left his senior editor position at NBC News and took over as managing editor of Marijuana.com on Monday. “I’ve been a journalist...
One of the (many) problematic issues that arises from the conflict between state and federal cannabis law is the still-legal vocational drug testing that screens for marijuana.
In a memo obtained by NORML, released in late May, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) clarified their drug policy in light of the growing number of states legalizing marijuana for medical and recreational use.
While the once omnipresent employee smoking lounge has been all but obliterated in the American workplace, is it possible that such a place could reemerge with the growing ubiquity and acceptance of cannabis?
The Minnesota Department of Health is seeking a director for its new Office of Medical Cannabis, which will implement the medical marijuana bill signed into law last month by Gov. Mark Dayton.
A recent report by the Marijuana Industry Group indicates that since January, Colorado’s newfound pot trade has created in upwards of 10,000 new jobs.
The other day I was perusing Craigslist and thought, just for the fun of it, I would enter "marijuana" into the search field under the jobs page...
Huffington Post reports that the DEA's hiring policy excludes anyone that admits to ever using any illegal drug... except weed.
Leaf Science asks Tweed Inc. how to get a job in the Canadian medical marijuana industry.
