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High time to abide by company drug policy

14 Sep 2014 - Preaching the News for Sunday

“Hearken, my people, to my teaching,” announces the psalmist this Sunday. Companies want employees to pay attention to their policies with regard to marijuana use on or off the job. Few organizations with zero-tolerance policies are changing them, regardless of whether or not marijuana has been legalized or permitted for medical purposes in their state.Even as 23 states allow medical or recreational marijuana, employment experts say that most businesses are keeping their drug-free policies. The result is a clash between a culture that increasingly accepts marijuana and companies that will fire employees who use it.Even in Colorado and Washington, the country’s most marijuana-friendly states, online classified ads lay out an unwelcome landscape for marijuana smokers. “Please do not apply if you are NOT drug free or carry a medical marijuana card,” warns one job listing for a mechanic in Denver. A Chevrolet dealership in the suburb of Aurora tells applicants, “We do screen for medical or recreational marijuana.” In Seattle, a recycling company looking for a welder cautions that they are a “zero-tolerance company including marijuana!!”Employers and business groups say the screenings identify drug-abusing workers, create a safer workplace, lower their insurance costs, and, in some cases, are required by law. But marijuana advocates say the prohibitions amount to discrimination, either against people using marijuana to treat a medical condition or against people who smoke it because they simply have the legal right to do so, off the clock and away from the office.After Colorado voted in 2012 to allow adults to buy, sell, and grow their own recreational marijuana, scarcely any businesses relaxed their own rules, according to a survey by the Mountain States Employers Council, which represents 3,500 companies. Seventy-one percent left their drug-testing policies in place, and 21 percent actually imposed stricter rules.“People were scared they were going to have a stoned work force,” said Curtis Graves, a staff lawyer for the group. A survey by Quest Diagnostics, which conducts millions of drug tests across the country, found that positive results for marijuana rose in both Colorado and Washington in the year after legalization measures passed.Homily hint: Why do people seek escape through drug and alcohol abuse? Many answers are given but ultimately habitual drug use is an indication of a spiritual crisis, a loss of meaning and purpose in life. If someone in your own life is struggling with habitual use of marijuana or other intoxicants, reach out to them with an offer to help them find their way. Source: An article by Jack Healy for The New York Times

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01 December 2024

Apocalypse

\ə-'pä-kə-“lips\

Alternative name for the Book of Revelation, the final book of the New Testament, that describes the end times in symbolic and allegorical language. Apocalyptic literature is concerned primarily with the fulfillment of history and God's purposes and often involves a human intermediary receiving hidden visionary knowledge of future events.

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