Medical marijuana: what happens when someone shows up to work high

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Medical marijuana: what happens when someone shows up to work high

TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - Arizona's new medical marijuana law protects users against criminal charges but its still unclear how these protections will keep card carriers from showing up to work high. The Arizona Department of Health Services expects to have a set of rules laid out by April. That's when the law goes in to effect.

Brain cancer patient Heather Torgerson previously told KGUN9 News she credits marijuana, and smoking it, with saving her life.

"If I wouldn't have had that to smoke I would have never increased my weight," said Torgerson. "I would have never increased my white blood cell count, I wouldn't have been able to continue my chemo and the cancer would have killed me."

Today, Torgerson claims she only smokes after chemo and not before going to work.

But Arizona's medical marijuana law does not protect workers who show up to work under the influence.

The question is: how does the law protect employers from getting sued for discrimination.

http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=13552743

[DBoon]

1. what happens when they show up wiped out from anti-histamines?

there are lots of drugs that affect your mental ability.

[arcane1]

2. Or ocycontin, or damned near any prescription pain-killer

Seems to me that the same rules would apply to all of those, no?

[DCKit]

3. And some jobs just go better with weed. nt