{"id":50954,"date":"2015-04-25T11:37:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T11:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/?p=50954"},"modified":"2022-12-02T11:30:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T16:30:37","slug":"marijuana-laws-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/blogs\/marijuana-laws-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana Laws Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are you in a State with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/marijuana-in-the-workplace\/\"><strong>Medical or Recreational marijuana laws<\/strong><\/a>?&nbsp; Have you addressed marijuana in your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/blogs\/do-you-need-a-drug-testing-policy\/\"><strong>drug testing policy<\/strong><\/a>?&nbsp; Eight States have pending legislation to legalize medical marijuana in 2015: Florida, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia currently have laws legalizing marijuana in some form.&nbsp; Four states have legalized marijuana for recreational use: Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska and the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legalization of marijuana does not mean that businesses should abandon their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/blogs\/setting-up-a-drugfree-workplace-policy\/\"><strong>drug-free workplace policy<\/strong><\/a> or stop drug testing.&nbsp; However, employers who have drug testing policies must ensure that the policy clearly and unambiguously addresses illegal substances and legal substances, including marijuana and alcohol.&nbsp; Contact National Drug Screening for assistance with your Drug Free Workplace Policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you in a State with Medical or Recreational marijuana laws?&nbsp; Have you addressed marijuana in your drug testing policy?&nbsp; Eight States have pending legislation to legalize medical marijuana in 2015: Florida, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia currently have laws legalizing marijuana in some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":52023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"50876,55058,51045,50890,51393,51223","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}