Why Cannabis Use Should be Irrelevant When Hiring Employees

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New York recently banned “pre-employment marijuana testing” which is a huge victory for individual privacy rights when looking for employment. However, someone needs to address the gigantic 5-ton pink gorilla sitting in the corner of the room – “Why is testing for marijuana considered a “metric” of being a good employee?”

It’s an odd situation where the “presence of a substance” immediately makes you unfit for work. What’s the reasoning behind this? Is there any scientific evidence that suggests “smoking cannabis makes you a less effective worker” and more importantly – does cannabis use warrant an immediate termination? What – other than the fact you have cannabis in your system – are the reasons that you are being terminated?

These are important questions to ask because when it comes to your rights and freedoms – you need to be on top of that. For the past fifty years, the societal “we” have blindly accepted the governmental narrative that “Drugs are Bad…Mmmkay?” Except – their narrative isn’t “drugs are bad” but rather – “Those other-drugs” [The ones you can grow yourself at home] are bad and “Their drugs” [the ones that are sold over-the-counter and cannot be made at home] are “TOTALLY-MmmKay!”

Why is smoking cannabis “bad for business?”

Under what criteria are cannabis consumers being discriminated against? Are the employers suggesting that “because people smoke cannabis they are less capable” than those who do not smoke cannabis? Does this comparison also include other substances like alcohol, cigarettes, excessive eating?

What is the comparative model? What is the ideal citizen? Because according to THEM a “cannabis user” is not fit for employment whereas an obese-cigarette-smoking-weekend-alcoholic with a slight dependency on anti-anxiety medication is perfectly suitable and fit for production.

For some reason – the moment you ingest cannabis, you become an idiotic shadow of a person that is incapable of basic things like “not killing your family with an ax” or “leaving your home while you masturbate in the basement” or whichever prohibitionist metric we are being judged by these days.

The facts speak louder than assumptions – and this is precisely why NY’s ban on pre-marijuana testing is a victory for individual rights and should be expanded to all substances.

The facts suggest that cannabis users take fewer sick days and typically recover quicker than their non-smoking counterparts recover. This could be due to elevated cannabinoid levels in their system helping their bodies maintain homeostasis more efficiently.

Additionally – it seems that cannabis users have a lower BMI than non-smokers too. This means that on average – cannabis users tend to be less likely to be obese than non-smokers. Considering that heart disease is one of the major killers in the US & that obesity is tied to heart disease – the mere fact that cannabis users have a lower probability to be obese is a victory for a company.

Lower BMI also would indicate an ability to be productive for longer just because it would require less energy to keep the body “afloat”. Of course – this is truly stretching the benefits of cannabis.

What I’m trying to achieve here though is to incept into your minds the question “Why”.

Why does it even matter if you smoke cannabis at home or not? Why would it matter if you use cannabis for medical purposes or general wellness purposes? How does this action indicate that you are “not suitable for employment”?

Resist the Narrative

We’ve seen legalization working for 24 years since it was first legalized for medical purposes in 1996. Of course – this isn’t federal legalization, but some form of cannabis legalization has been alive and well for over 2 decades now.

We can definitively say that the vast majority of the “fears” surrounding legalization is proven to be false. No – crime isn’t rampant post-legalization. No – teens are not doing it at higher rates. No – it didn’t ruin society.

On the contrary – it created jobs, it provides relief to people who need it, it creates taxes, it makes the streets safer, it acknowledges that people have a right to choose what they wish to consume without fear of imprisonment.

It hasn’t made society dumber, weaker, more passive, or anything like that. This is a narrative that we have been sold for too long and it’s time to resist the narrative. #ResistTheNarrative

For too long we have been fucked with and fired, jailed, and exiled from society that this shit no longer flies. How about we do something about it?

The next time you go to a job interview and they want to give you a “drug test” – refuse it, snap a picture of the business and let the world know – using the hashtag #ResistTheNarrative – this company “This company discriminates me because I choose to smoke cannabis”…and then walk away.

I was once told by a wise – and fat man – that “The only real power you have is where you spend your money” and I believe him. These major corporations could give two-shits about you and me…but they absolutely covet our dollars. Let our dollars speak louder than our words. #ResistTheNarrative