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Wild that one can be fired for taking a legal substance with no known impairing qualities. I also find it ironic that one can be fired for failing drug tests f
by wing-_-nuts 3y ago
Wild that one can be fired for taking a legal substance with no known impairing qualities. I also find it ironic that one can be fired for failing drug tests for using cannabis in 'legal' states despite that a positive test only shows that you used the substance sometime in the past few days or even up to a month.
If it ever gets legalized nationally, this will have to be dealt with. I cannot imagine an employer firing someone for using alcohol or tobacco for example
- jvanderbot 3y agoPresumably the employee should have known about a blanket "no drug / marijuana" policy. Yes, the policy will need to be updated, but there's really no excuse.
- nickthegreek 3y agoCBD is not THC.
- jvanderbot 3y agoI agree. But the distinction is very likely not made at the policy level for this agency. In past jobs, it was "all the same" when dealing with zero tolerance policies.
- alwa 3y agoTrue! But he wasn’t penalized for the CBD in his body, he was penalized for the THC metabolites.
- mikestew 3y agoI cannot imagine an employer firing someone for using...tobacco Alaska Airlines will do just that. Source: any of their job postings, as they won't even hire tobacco users. But if they find out after hiring, you can guess the probable outcome.
- pdntspa 3y agoMy last employer required us to sign an affidavit confirming that we don't use tobacco, or we would have to pay a penalty on the company-provided insurance
- wing-_-nuts 3y agoAt least with tobacco one could say there's a negative health risk that raises the cost for everyone. Firing someone for using CBD is literally just being petty.
- glerk 3y agoIt’s the DEA, so this is more like a priest getting fired from a church for not following the dogmas.
- hyperhopper 3y agoWhat you do on your own time should be none of your employers business. You do your job, that's it. They don't own your life.
- wand3r 3y agoI totally disagree in this context. CBD is probably beyond the pale here, but positions of extreme authority should certainly be held to higher levels of scrutiny. Judges and Police are entrusted with an huge amount of power in our society so if they break a law they should have higher sentences. They themselves enforce and judge criminals. They don't get to "own your life" but I don't feel its unreasonable to hold them to a standard higher than the average citizen in our society.
- alwa 3y agoPerhaps—but if your job is to enforce the laws about what other people do on their own time, it seems like a reasonable prerequisite that you should behave spotlessly on your own time too. At the very least, he knew the stakes well ahead of time, and he knew it was his responsibility to make sure he didn’t get THC in his blood. As a drug cop, it would be strange for him not to understand that hemp products still contain some amount of THC. And although the firing decision only relied on the drug test, the evidence shows that he did in fact procure and use “CBD” products that were above the legal limit for THC content—and thus broke the laws it’s his job to enforce. “I swear, officer, I didn’t know what it was!” doesn’t work for anybody else, so I have a hard time accepting that it should work for the elite cop whose job it is to know better.
- ImPostingOnHN 3y agotheir agency is tasked with, among other things, prosecuting people for possessing and using a substance which is harmless, but still disallowed by bureaucrats the dude was fired for possessing and using a substance which is harmless, but still disallowed by bureaucrats
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