California State Measures Prop 19 Legalizes Marijuana Under California Law But Not Federal Law Nor Most If Not All Human Resource Departments

California State Measures Prop 19 Legalizes Marijuana Under California Law But Not Federal Law Nor Most If Not All Human Resource Departments

So my esteem collogues across California, make that the world! What exactly should we do about this measure and how does it really affect the citizens of California. Well let's talk about it in terms of employment and the human resources department issues it raises, the impact it will have on the hiring practices of companies across the state, and the miss-guided direction it will send our younger and most naive applicants in.

First let's recap Prop 19, as it is described in the Official California Sample Ballot and Voter instruction manual. It states the following:

Prop 19. Legalizes Marijuana under California but not federal law. Permits local Governments to Regulate and Tax Commercial production, distribution, and sale of Marijuana, Initiative Statute. Allows people 21 years old or older to possess, cultivate, or transport marijuana for personal use. Fiscal impact: Depending on federal, state, and local government actions, potential increase tax and fee revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually and potential correctional savings of several tens of millions of dollars annually.

Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! No kidding!

California has one of the highest if not the highest unemployment ratios in the nation, 12.6%, 2.5 million people out of work in the State, and we are asking our citizen's if it's Ok to smoke marijuana, break federal law and fail every employer's drug test known to man.

I am not suggesting that there is a wrong or right stance on this issue, only to say that as we propose these ballots for the voters to consider; are we as professionals, parents, dads, moms; and others looking at the "big picture"?

Well folks, when I started this blog we were several days before the vote, but busy is busy and I didn't get a chance to finish it or those thought provoking discussions I had hoped to generate.

Two weeks past the vote, and Californian's overwhelming voted the proposition down and it's no longer an issue, or is it?

Keep in mind there are Human resources departments all over country who continue to require pre-employment drug testing and are eliminating possible candidates for dirty' drug test. The mind set of HR executives have not and will not change on this point.

No potential employer wants to hire someone off the street who is a user of any banded substance; especially those deemed by the court system (Federal, State and Local) to be punishable by law! So what is the point?

If these kinds of initiatives are allowed to pass because we are "short sited" and or nave to the challenges of the real hiring criteria; then we will doom another generation of young potential hire's. They will find most opportunities if not all open positions unavailable, and the doors that lead to them slammed in their faces!

My friends' society has to make several systemic changes in how we think about marijuana, its place in our everyday activities, and its place in the work place to pass with a vote of yes these types of propositions.

In states that have elected to approve a marijuana initiative, the question is have they incorporated business leaders, community leaders, social leaders, and educational institutions and had an open dialog about how this all fits in to the real world?

Arizona wake up and smell the coffee. You may be looking at a significant increase in your already high and unmanageable unemployment numbers

Make sense?

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