Marijuana on the job

[jyoutz]

Pot use both recreational and medicinal is legal in Canada but DO NOT get caught with it at customs when you come into the country. The rubber glove treatment will be the least of your worries.
There have been so many drug/drink driving busts just this year in Ontario. It is unreal that people just don't get it. It is a one year suspended license (by the court and backed up by the Ministry of Transport) per offense. If they can get you for impaired by alcohol (1 offense) and also by drugs (2nd offense) that makes 2 charges of impaired driving.
On top of that at the time of the offense your vehicle is impounded for 7 days at your expense.
After you get your license back there is an ignition interlock devise that you must install at your expense on your vehicle that before you even start it you must blow into.

Sounds pretty standard for most of the U.S. also.

 

[daugen]

I believe that reasonable people don't need to be told what is bad for them and greater society.

the problem is what do we do with unreasonable people...
we live in a society where individuals have to make concessions for the common good.
We know we can't eat our neighbors when we are hungry...there are rules for behavior since we left the big cave.

I have less faith than you do in the wisdom of our average citizen.
Folks have always needed rules, and signage. And police.

when my wife was dying and in serious pain, she tried some pot to deal with the pain.
She like me didn't smoke but I had some with her to help her through it. Made her dizzy and did not help.
30 days later I applied for a serious job as trust dept. investment adviser in local old line bank, and was not hired due to a
positive drug hit 30 days from that one time. I learned the hard way that stuff sticks around. They wanted so badly to hire me, understood
my situation, and yet had strict rules, no exceptions.

so I have a little personal experience in this and it wasn't good. My fault, but fairly innocent.
I went on to start my own financial planning practice among the Quaker community here and did just fine.
Was nice to work by myself and not have a boss.

 

[Looking4new]

When I held a CDL and traveled stateside I had to do the PEE test about every 6 months. I finally put the kibosh on that invasion of privacy and stopped going to the states. Nobody can dictate what party favours I partake off on my days off.

 

[lilranch2001]

I have already reconciled the fact I will never return to Canada, it is way to communistic for my taste!

 

[ultrarunner]

The last corporate merger all employees directed to occ med for drug testing…

I had never been tested and never drink, smoke or drugs beyond an occasional Advil…

I said I will do it once and made it clear it would be one and only…

There comes a point where if you don’t put your foot down you are left with nothing to stand on…

 

[MossRoad]

I believe that reasonable people don't need to be told what is bad for them and greater society. We tend to self-police on these things. Some simply cannot or will not act sensibly. In earlier societies they were dealt with directly and not let go to do it over and over until they kill someone (again). My complaint is with all the things we are not allowed to do, even though harmless to others. Freedom much?
I have to admit, the thought of people square dancing on a moving railroad turntable sounds like cheap, homegrown amusement. Or did I miss your meaning there?

The line about square dance calling in a roundhouse was from a looney tunes cartoon when Daffy Duck was reading a wanted poster for the outlaw Nasty Canasta.

It's just stuck with me all these years.

 

[MossRoad]

The last corporate merger all employees directed to occ med for drug testing…

I had never been tested and never drink, smoke or drugs beyond an occasional Advil…

I said I will do it once and made it clear it would be one and only…

There comes a point where if you don’t put your foot down you are left with nothing to stand on…

I got drug tested when onboarding at my current employer about 8 years ago. I couldn't go. Had to sit there drinking water for about 45 minutes.

And I got drug tested after work-place injuries at my last and current employers. That was standard procedure at both.

At my old employer, I opened an upper metal cabinet door on a machine, bent down to look under the machine, stood up not realizing the cabinet door had swung halfway shut, and promptly knocked myself out. I woke up on the floor with my coworker holding some paper towels on my head. Some superglue at the hospital and all OK.... I think.

 

[D&D]

Good, except for cost of living and cold, Canada is a very nice place.
Problem I see when traveling is why do people drive without regard for others? Some take up residence in the hammer lane and drive below speed limit. Some probably never look in their mirrors' when passing. Some drive like they're playing leap frog at high speed.
Some are driving 80000+ lbs of rolling steel, some are driving tiny little smart cars.
If drug testing takes some of the clowns off the road, that's ok. We all have choices to make. If you'd rather get high than work, good for you.

 

[rontaki]

I always practise ahead of time for my drug tests.

 

[MossRoad]

Your aim will never improve at this point in life.