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2024 California law to protect most workers using cannabis on own time begins January 1st

www.nbcsandiego.com 2024 California law to protect most workers using cannabis on own time

A new California law will soon protect most workers in the state who use cannabis off the clock.

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The craziest part to me is not that you can get fired for using weed on your own time two weeks before due to drug testing, it's that you can get completely drunk the morning of the drug test and still pass it because alcohol doesn't count but weed does.
- Depends on the test, of course, but alcohol will show up in your piss for a day or two and many places (particularly ones that test for operating heavy machinery) do care about it.
  
  But yeah, it's still bullshit.
  
  Alcohol can be detectable for up to 14 days, but mostly only court ordered drug tests will run the test required to detect alcohol that long. If you work for the railroad though, expect hair follicle tests and they will know everything you put in your body.
Keep in mind, some government positions, still won't let you use cannabis even if the state gives you the right to.
- Any job with a clearance. Many of those just don't test in CA though unless they want you fired because otherwise they'd never be able to hire anyone.
- Pilots and Flight Attendants I'm sure too
I guess this is a sigh of relief for healthcare workers :D
- We shouldn't be at work even with alcohol in our system so... Should something happen and it came out we regularly got inebriated, we'd still be fucked.
Listen up oregon!! Get worker protections passed!
- Michigan too.
- How about federally? No sense in weed prohibition based on racism.
  
  I would love that but I’m sure it won’t happen for a long time…..
Long overdue.
Good news everybody! :-)

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