Preparing Your Workplace for Cannabis

Preparing your workplace for cannabis

Between eight states in the US allowing the recreational use of cannabis and neighbor Canada legalizing it on a national scale, cannabis will soon have an effect on the workforce and the workplace.

Are you prepared to deal with the consequences?

The increasing legal and social acceptance of cannabis raises thorny questions about safety, impairment, and use on premises.

Such concerns are more pressing for jobs like commercial drivers and operators of heavy machinery, which require a high degree of cognitive response.

But there are no accepted measures of impairment, which makes drafting organizational policy tricky. Most organizations have refined their policies on drugs and alcohol over time to demarcate the black from the white, the “don’ts” from the “dos”.

However, the addition of marijuana to the list of legal substances adds a shade of grey to these regulations.

If your organization conducts operations across state lines, you need to abide by the law in each state.

Add to that the contradicting federal regulations and managing operations becomes a lot more difficult.

Download this paper and learn about upcoming developments and some ways you can prepare your supply chain for the changes.