As someone who doesn't smoke weed at all, I was asked on Reddit a while ago about the fact that you still can't typically smoke weed at work, or show up to work high. Is it actually reasonable/possible to enforce such a workplace rule, considering unless you catch them smoking weed, it'd be pretty hard to prove they were intoxicated while working? From the little I understand (which really is little, because again, I don't partake so I'm not personally invested), it's hard to test for "being high", you'd typically only be able to detect the presence of THC or CBD in someone's blood or urine, which can be detected long after the high itself wears off. Is this all misinformation? Can a workplace punish someone who smoked Friday night coming into work Monday morning and testing positive for marijuana use?
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As someone who doesn't smoke weed at all, I was asked on Reddit a while ago about the fact that you still can't typically smoke weed at work, or show up to work high. Is it actually reasonable/possible to enforce such a workplace rule, considering unless you catch them smoking weed, it'd be pretty hard to prove they were intoxicated while working? From the little I understand (which really is little, because again, I don't partake so I'm not personally invested), it's hard to test for "being high", you'd typically only be able to detect the presence of THC or CBD in someone's blood or urine, which can be detected long after the high itself wears off. Is this all misinformation? Can a workplace punish someone who smoked Friday night coming into work Monday morning and testing positive for marijuana use?
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