Recreational Pot and the Workplace: Q&A on Oregon’s New Law

June 30, 2015
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July 1 is nearly upon us, the day Oregon’s voter-approved recreational marijuana law starts taking effect.

If you’re an employee, you may be wondering where your rights to smoke begin and end. Can you puff on the weekend and go to work Monday thinking you’re on solid ground?

If you’re an employer, you may be revisiting your right to test workers for the presence of marijuana. Have the legal requirements changed? Is there reason to be more or less lenient than before?

We asked two Portland attorneys with expertise in employment law to answer those and other questions about legal pot and the workplace. [Read more at the Portland Oregonian]

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