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Almost half of weed users have gone to work high in marijuana-legal states like Colorado, according to the latest research from Instamator. What’s more is around 40 percent of these high laborers claim to be ripped on the clock at least once a week, the study finds.
Although many experienced cannabis users often claim the intoxicating effects of marijuana does not throw a wrench in their overall work performance, some of these folks could be at risk of losing their jobs. Regardless of the newly legal climate in many jurisdictions all across the United States, employers are still looking to fire stoners.
Workers Who Use Marijuana Can Still Get Fired in Legal States
When Colorado became the first state in the country to legalize the leaf for recreational use, many companies worried that high times would bring about the demise of the economy. But while those wild predictions were rooted in reefer madness, especially considering that, four years later, Colorado has become of the best economies in the nation, employers soon gained ground in their ability to can those of their workers who showed up to put in their eight hours with THC in their system.
Because marijuana remains an outlaw substance in the eyes of the federal government, there is nothing stopping companies from drug testing their workers for weed. Even in legal states, drug-free workplace policies prevent warehouse workers, fork drivers and a variety of others from smoking weed, even on their own time.
In fact, it was just a few years ago that a Colorado medical marijuana patient named Brandon Coats was terminated from