{"id":35730,"date":"2018-12-10T13:24:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T18:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35730"},"modified":"2018-12-10T13:24:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T18:24:39","slug":"national-law-review-with-wide-spread-legalization-of-marijuana-has-a-public-employers-ability-to-test-for-marijuana-gone-up-in-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35730","title":{"rendered":"National Law Review: With Wide-Spread Legalization of Marijuana, Has A Public Employer&#8217;s Ability to Test for Marijuana Gone up In Smoke?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Law Review: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natlawreview.com\/article\/wide-spread-legalization-marijuana-has-public-employer-s-ability-to-test-marijuana\">With Wide-Spread Legalization of Marijuana, Has A Public Employer&#8217;s Ability to Test for Marijuana Gone up In Smoke?<\/a> by Ryan P. Heiden:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As of the November 2018 elections, the District of Columbia and ten states have legalized marijuana for recreational or other permissible use. Canada also implemented nation-wide legalization of marijuana for recreational use as of October 17, 2018. These developments have left many employers wondering whether they may enforce the employer&#8217;s drug policy with respect to employees or applicants who claim they visited one of the aforementioned locations and, upon return, test positive for tetrahydrocannabinol (commonly referred to as &#8220;THC&#8221;)\u2014the active ingredient in marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>The answer ultimately is &#8220;yes,&#8221; the employer may enforce the employer&#8217;s drug policy with respect to such employees and applicants; however, there are a few legalities to be aware of.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Law Review: With Wide-Spread Legalization of Marijuana, Has A Public Employer&#8217;s Ability to Test for Marijuana Gone up In Smoke? by Ryan P. Heiden:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35732,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35730\/revisions\/35732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}