{"id":31516,"date":"2012-11-27T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/the-legalities-of-off-duty-pot-usage.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T23:27:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T05:27:54","slug":"the-legalities-of-off-duty-pot-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/the-legalities-of-off-duty-pot-usage.html","title":{"rendered":"The legalities of off-duty pot usage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorado has had legal medical marijuana usage for a while, and just passed a law legalizing (as far as the state is concerned) the use of recreational marijuana. We also have a law that prohibits someone from being fired from a job for doing something that's legal while not on the job, as long as their on-hours performance is not impacted.<\/p>\n

So for companies that forbid marijuana usage under their corporate policies, has pot suddenly become okay? That's what a court is going to have to decide.<\/p>\n

The argument, by the way, that it's still illegal under federal law does not (to my mind) hold much water. \u00a0This is protection under state<\/i> law we're talking about, not under federal law. \u00a0The only exceptions there might be for companies that operate across state lines, but even there they are required to abide by state law for employment policies (e.g., when a final check has to be cut at time of termination), so abiding by state law legality would seem to be natural.<\/p>\n

This is another case where one would expect the more libertarian \/ states-rights Republicans to be leading the charge to defend such usage from federal interference …<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA case pending before the Colorado Court of Appeals could have a big impact on whether employers will be able to fire workers who smoke marijuana off duty.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Colorado has had legal medical marijuana usage for a while, and just passed a law legalizing (as far as the state is concerned) the use of recreational marijuana. We also have a law that prohibits someone from being fired from a job for doing something that's legal while not on the job, as long as … Continue reading “The legalities of off-duty pot usage”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51467,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/15\/no-high-times-on-off-times.html","url_meta":{"origin":31516,"position":0},"title":"No high times on off times","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 15-Jun-15 4:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is getting lots of play in the news, but the case has nothing to do with pot per se, but the Colorado law about what sorts of things are protected from employer retribution when done outside working hours.The main criterion of Colorado Supreme Court's decision was that because marijuana\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30758,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/22\/colorado-ballot-propositions-2012-amendment-24.html","url_meta":{"origin":31516,"position":1},"title":"Colorado Ballot Propositions 2012: Amendment 64","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Oct-12 10:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the one making all the national news: Legalized Marijuana. 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