|
|
"A comprehensive, collaborative elections resource."
|
‘California’s Proposition 19: Yes We Cannabis’
|
|---|
| Parent(s) |
Candidate
|
| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Aug 18, 2010 06:45am |
| Logged |
1
[Older]
|
| Category | Op-Ed by Candidate |
| Author | Darryl Perry |
| News Date | Monday, August 16, 2010 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | This fall Californians will be able to vote to completely legalize the herb commonly called “marijuana”. NBC Los Angeles reports the “California Chamber of Commerce on Thursday released a legal analysis that claims Proposition 19 would lead to more workplace accidents by forcing employers to let workers smoke pot on the job.” The California Chamber of Commerce website states, “If this measure were approved, employers, including the State of California, would be faced with the burden of proving that an employee who tests positive for marijuana is “actually impaired” from performing the job before taking any adverse action against the employee. This process would delay disciplinary actions used to protect workplace safety and drive up costs due to increased litigation.”
The Chamber is under the impression that employers would not be able to implement “drug free” workplace policies. I have to wonder if the California Chamber of Commerce is also worried about workers going to work intoxicated or under the influence of over-the-counter sleeping pills? I’m sure someone can create a test to determine how much THC is in someone’s system, similar to a test showing how much alcohol is in someone’s system.
DrugWarRANT.com writes on the history of marijuana, “For most of human history, marijuana has been completely legal. It’s not a recently discovered plant, nor is it a long-standing law. Marijuana has been illegal for less than 1% of the time that it’s been in use. Its known uses go back further than 7,000 B.C. and it was legal as recently as when Ronald Reagan was a boy.
The marijuana (hemp) plant, of course, has an incredible number of uses. The earliest known woven fabric was apparently of hemp, and over the centuries the plant was used for food, incense, cloth, rope, and much more. This adds to some of the confusion over its introduction in the United States, as the plant was well known from the early 1600′s, but did not reach |
| Share |
|
|
2¢
|
|
| Article | Read Full Article |
|
| Date |
Category |
Headline |
Article |
Contributor |
|
|
