Medical Marijuana

[TowelieTowel]

I am a medical marijuana patient in the state of california. I'm 100% sure that I can not pass the pre employment drug test. Does anyone know if they still take me because I am a medical marijuana patient.

[CarnorJax27069]

Are you being totally serious here? If you are being given marijuana by a doctor it is becuase you are really, really sick! In that case... Why would you be working. I swear I've seen it all now.

[HelloItsMeMOM]

When you sign the paperwork for a drug test, they say that you will have a chance to defend any positive results. Show your medical marijuana paperwork and you will be good to go.

I wouldn't say anything until after your test. If they do not hire you once you show proof why, you will have grounds for discrimination on medical reasons ...

Good luck

[HelloItsMeMOM]

Are you being totally serious here? If you are being given marijuana by a doctor it is becuase you are really, really sick! In that case... Why would you be working. I swear I've seen it all now.

No, marijuana was prescribed to relatives of mine to combat the effects of chemotherapy. They could have worked .. they just would not eat ...

Happiest girls I ever met ;) (Sorry, I had to go there ... :D )

[rk237]

This is the first I've even heard of a drug test for employees in California.
Besides, surely you have proper documentation excepting your specific case, the same you would use to protect your stash against police seizure.

[CarnorJax27069]

No, marijuana was prescribed to relatives of mine to combat the effects of chemotherapy. They could have worked .. they just would not eat ...

Ah, sorry to hear that mom... I do stand corrected...

[BBVcasualposter]

Where does BBV require a drug test?

[TowelieTowel]

Are you being totally serious here? If you are being given marijuana by a doctor it is becuase you are really, really sick! In that case... Why would you be working. I swear I've seen it all now.

im not really really sick im only a college student that just got out of highschool a few years ago

[Antithesys]

...so anyway, the Rockies are finally making it interesting. So far this had been the most unengaging Series of all time.

[rk237]

...so anyway, the Rockies are finally making it interesting. So far this had been the most unengaging Series of all time.

Next year's will be foregone as well, as the Padres sweep 4-0 each round of the playoffs. ;)

[Adornedatom]

im not really really sick im only a college student that just got out of highschool a few years ago
So you're just a pot head who's been lucky enough to get a prescription then?

[Woodstock]

Something smells like a troll here....

[Antithesys]

Hasn't PETCO burned down yet?

[johnlow71]

nice topic, im all for it:)

[brantheman]

Nearly two years of employement at the big blue and I have yet to be drug tested.

Not that i'd fail, but still...

[URBAN_COWBOY]

Next year's will be foregone as well, as the Padres sweep 4-0 each round of the playoffs. ;)I'm not sure which of your dreams is more unrealistic, the one you had about BB or this one. Both are pretty farfetched.:D

[rk237]

I'm not sure which of your dreams is more unrealistic, the one you had about BB or this one. Both are pretty farfetched.:D

Don't you know, baseball is all about dreams. :D

[Lomithrandel]

Baseball is all about flat beer and stale nacho's... oh ya and the game makes me fall asleep :D.

Football+Hockey>baseball(aka narcolepsyball)^googol

[Beer_Monkey]

Ghostnic methinks

The Name Towelie will be known to all South Park fans as a Pot Head Towel. It is perhaps the lamest of all Trey Parker's and Matt stone's creations

[yousickf'ingbastard]

I am a medical marijuana patient in the state of california. I'm 100% sure that I can not pass the pre employment drug test. Does anyone know if they still take me because I am a medical marijuana patient.

bring the weed to the interview and hope for the best

[johnlow71]

hey yusif, welcome back :) been awhile.

[zooworker]

Something smells like a troll here....
A mole maybe..........

[zooworker]

I am a medical marijuana patient in the state of california. I'm 100% sure that I can not pass the pre employment drug test. Does anyone know if they still take me because I am a medical marijuana patient.

im not really really sick im only a college student that just got out of highschool a few years ago
Your so full of shit on this one.
And why in this part of the forum did you start a thread?

[OzMan]

So you're just a pot head who's been lucky enough to get a prescription then?

All the rage here.

As I have said over and over again... I love Oregon (a state I am fortunate enough to NOT reside in)..... the only place where pot is legal but self-serve gas isn't :rolleyes:

And I think I mentioned the raid on the house there where they found 200 pot plants.... a medical marijuana card allows you 7.... two residents of the house had cards.... so the cops ONLY siezed 186 plants :rolleyes:

It's STILL a violation of FEDERAL law. I doubt a MM card is going to get you out of a drug test.

[CreepyNormal]

Pot should be legal anyway.

[HelloItsMeMOM]

All the rage here.

As I have said over and over again... I love Oregon (a state I am fortunate enough to NOT reside in)..... the only place where pot is legal but self-serve gas isn't :rolleyes:

Are you forgetting Alaska? I think they legalized it so someone would actually move there ... lol

It's STILL a violation of FEDERAL law. I doubt a MM card is going to get you out of a drug test.

If they refuse him a job it would be discrimination ... funny, the BB powers to be are probably watching for that MM paper now ... lol

[HelloItsMeMOM]

Pot should be legal anyway.

Actually, I always said I think they should legalize it and tax it .. they could drop property and sales tax ...) At the same time, they should double or triple the penalties for other drugs.

And, when that happens I am going into the potato chip business. I know just the side of town to move back to ...lol :D

DISCLAIMER: Mom DOES NOT smoke pot.

[zooworker]

Pot should be legal anyway.
I'd never go to work then.........;) :D

[OzMan]

Are you forgetting Alaska? I think they legalized it so someone would actually move there ... lol

But at least in Alaska, you don't have to sit there whilst some sub-literate on a cell phone takes his sweet fucking time filling your petrol tank!!!!

And I think my biggest problem (besides the fact that they move SO FUCKING SLOW) is how EVERY pump jockey I have EVER seen in the state of Oregon is on their cell phone whilst pumping gas. But yet they bitch about the "average consumer" doing the same.

[rk237]

But at least in Alaska, you don't have to sit there whilst some sub-literate on a cell phone takes his sweet fucking time filling your petrol tank!!!!

And I think my biggest problem (besides the fact that they move SO FUCKING SLOW) is how EVERY pump jockey I have EVER seen in the state of Oregon is on their cell phone whilst pumping gas. But yet they bitch about the "average consumer" doing the same.

Hey Oz why don't you just fill up yourself? Several times in Oregon, I've started pumping my own gas (usually on occasions when they're too slow to get over right away). They see me pumping and usually come over right away, at which point I go back in and sit while they finish the job. Maybe I can get away with it because I don't have Oregon plates (they lecture me on how it's against the law to do what I just did, and I just say "oh sorry, I didn't know. I'm used to doing it myself") -- I imagine you'd either have Wa. or Ca. plates yourself Oz, so you might try the same thing.

[Antithesys]

It's news to me that there are actually still gas stations where someone else fills up the tank for you.

[turtletime]

It's news to me that there are actually still gas stations where someone else fills up the tank for you.

new jersey and oregon...both have state laws that say joe blow can't pump his own gas... at least, i think NJ still does.

[Antithesys]

Restricting gas rights...if those weren't blue states I'd have assumed they'd just made a typo.

[Woodstock]

Why do they have that law?

[rk237]

Why do they have that law?

I can only think that it's to protect gas jockey jobs.
How dumb -- legislating a required inefficiency.

[Woodstock]

I can only think that it's to protect gas jockey jobs.
How dumb -- legislating a required inefficiency.

Are they union? That law could be the result of a union lobbiest.

[zooworker]

It's news to me that there are actually still gas stations where someone else fills up the tank for you.
WOW!!! Haven't seen a gas jockey in years. Course if they have them I'm sure you pay more for it.

[zooworker]

But at least in Alaska, you don't have to sit there whilst some sub-literate on a cell phone takes his sweet fucking time filling your petrol tank!!!!

And I think my biggest problem (besides the fact that they move SO FUCKING SLOW) is how EVERY pump jockey I have EVER seen in the state of Oregon is on their cell phone whilst pumping gas. But yet they bitch about the "average consumer" doing the same.
Aren't there laws about using a cell phone while pumping Gas? There is here, but nobody pays attention to it.

[turtletime]

Why do they have that law?

I can only think that it's to protect gas jockey jobs.
How dumb -- legislating a required inefficiency.

not sure about in NJ, but in Oregon, they have shown that allowing joe blow to pump his own gas resulted in a higher ecological problem with gas getting in to the runoff. They actually voted to remove the law some 15 years ago or something and it was voted down...

And, ironically enough, every time I have headed down that way, gas is cheaper by about five to seven cents from what we have here in Washington, even going just right across the river. My auntie lives down there and every time we talk, it's always less there. How messed up is that??? Pay less and not even have to do it myself!! Man! :) ;)

[zooworker]

It's the state taxes that are different.

[turtletime]

Yeah, fuel tax in WA is .36¢ versus .24¢ in Oregon...

[rk237]

Pay less and not even have to do it myself!! Man! :) ;)

Yeah but doing it yourself is an advantage! First of all, you save time. And you don't have to talk to anyone, request the grade, amount, or whatever. Also, I'm already out of my car washing my windows anyway. They always get their gas and grease leftovers on my credit card after handling it. Gas getting into the runoff -- that sounds like lobbyist hoobijoo. :p Just the idling cars probably do more ecological damage, not to mention oil comes from inside the Earth to begin with so a little runoff likely isn't as bad as it sounds.

[Antithesys]

What "runoff"? Do they mean gas dribbling out of the nozzle or something? I don't think that's ever happened to me (and I don't think I can word that sentence any cleaner way). And if it did happen, couldn't they just stick a cap on the nozzle that opens when the trigger is depressed?

[turtletime]

Yeah but doing it yourself is an advantage! First of all, you save time. And you don't have to talk to anyone, request the grade, amount, or whatever. Also, I'm already out of my car washing my windows anyway. They always get their gas and grease leftovers on my credit card after handling it. Gas getting into the runoff -- that sounds like lobbyist hoobijoo. :p Just the idling cars probably do more ecological damage, not to mention oil comes from inside the Earth to begin with so a little runoff likely isn't as bad as it sounds.

aah, but you forget about all our lovely rain up here north of you!! :)

From what I've read, it's from the dipshits who think they need to top off the tank, again and again and again!

I'd rather pump it myself :D anyhow...it's quicker and I don't have to deal with shitty customer service!! Give me self serve anyday! I'm just really surprised that they don't vote it out...guess the Oregonians are just lazy! ;)

[rk237]

aah, but you forget about all our lovely rain up here north of you!! :)


Oh yeah there's that. :)
I still think it's all lobbyist nonsense in a practical sense though. The difference between the runoffs from a full- or self-serve type station is negligible at worst, or nonexistent at best.

Gas stations of any form are dirty, dirty creatures. Worrying about the occasional extra loose drip by an untrained customer is like worrying about smoke damage when your house is already engulfed in flames. Laws like that get passed because people couldn't be bothered to make a case against the claims of whoever's original passionate interest it was to full-serve all the stations. Not that I'm one to talk, my state is full of shit laws!

[OzMan]

Why do they have that law?

I can only think that it's to protect gas jockey jobs.
How dumb -- legislating a required inefficiency.

Pretty much that is the argument that I have heard. It lowers unemployment and ensures that otherwise unemployable people get a job. The problem is, they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to fill the positions, and these people (the dregs of retail, rude, inefficient, s--l--o--w, etc) are overpaid even at minimum wage.

The ecological implication argument is new to me, but makes perfect sense, considering how many tree-huggers are down there.:rolleyes:

Aren't there laws about using a cell phone while pumping Gas? There is here, but nobody pays attention to it.

It's the law in WA state, so I could only assume it SHOULD be the law in OR. Someday, some pump jockey is going to blow up the station, and maybe THEN people will realise how bad a system they have created. (Seriously, I have NEVER gotten petrol and NOT seen the pump jockey on his cell phone. Even at 2AM. Who the fuck are they talking to, anyway?)

What is funny is to see people with OR plates sitting at the pumps in WA, wondering why no one is coming out to fill up their tank.

[OzMan]

Yeah but doing it yourself is an advantage! First of all, you save time. And you don't have to talk to anyone, request the grade, amount, or whatever. Also, I'm already out of my car washing my windows anyway. They always get their gas and grease leftovers on my credit card after handling it.

Seriously.

First of all, they have the card readers on the pump. So, you give them the card, then you have to give your ZIP code (the new safety feature on the Left Coast to ensure that the card is actually yours... or at least belongs to someone whose address you have) to the pump jockey (see what I just wrote... sort of defeats that purpose).

I have NEVER had any problem using one of those card readers (I LOVED when I first saw them... meant I didn't have to go inside and deal with the idiots employed at self-serve stations, either)... EXCEPT in Portland, where I was told my card wasn't working. I had to go inside (meaning I had to get out of my car, anyway. I did the MAJORITY of the work involved in pumping gas, which is the walk to the counter.... the pump jockey jus stood there, watching the numbers spin.... worst part for him was having to interrupt his cell phone conversation to tell me I had to go inside). I can only assume he wasn't able to remember the FIVE numbers in my ZIP code (3 of which are the SAME NUMBER) for the 8 seconds it took to enter them in, and made a mistake :rolleyes:

[Antithesys]

aah, but you forget about all our lovely rain up here north of you!!Here in civilization there are roofs over every pump at every gas station.

[turtletime]

Here in civilization there are roofs over every pump at every gas station.


yeah, cuz the Seattle area is soooo uncivilized! ;)

i was talking about the fact that any amount of gas that touches the ground gets washed away in the rain we have up here, i.e. into the runoff...unlike dry areas where it would not get washed away by the rain. it doesn't matter if the area is covered or not, the amount of rain is so much that, at some point, it will wash every bit of ground, covered or not. runoff streams don't much care if the area they are going over is covered or not, just if it's blocked or open. :D

[rk237]

runoff streams don't much care if the area they are going over is covered or not, just if it's blocked or open. :D

They don't care? When Seattle's runoff streams are streaming along, don't they know when an area's covered, it means they should at least try to weave around? Fucking hell, runoff streams these days!

[turtletime]

It's the law in WA state, so I could only assume it SHOULD be the law in OR. Someday, some pump jockey is going to blow up the station, and maybe THEN people will realise how bad a system they have created. (Seriously, I have NEVER gotten petrol and NOT seen the pump jockey on his cell phone. Even at 2AM. Who the fuck are they talking to, anyway?)

I just looked through all the RCWs and didn't find it as an actual law. Besides, it not the phone that causes the fires...it's the buildup of static you get when climbing in and out of your car. Most people will touch the frame of the vehicle when they get out, but if you are on your cell, you aren't likely to...then you touch the pump to the car and somehow a spark will happen from the built up static electricity...same as if you were to walk around the local Albertsons with one of their damn car carts and touch your child...the shock will make you both jerk! :( not that I've had that happen recently...

and hey, i'm on the phone frequently at 2am...the hubby works nights, it's easy to be on there in the wee hours....and if he's not talking to me, he's probably talking to one of the other drivers...course, he does it to stay awake...pretty easy to get road hypnosis at 2am when you are out driving for hours on end, looking at nothing but the highway! :D not that that was relevant to the topic at hand, but.............................

[turtletime]

They don't care? When Seattle's runoff streams are streaming along, don't they know when an area's covered, it means they should at least try to weave around? Fucking hell, runoff streams these days!

i know!! rude lil fuckers, ain't they!! specially when they come up on unsuspecting feet!

[OzMan]

Yeah, so it's a troll, but just because of that doesn't mean THIS story isn't relavent, and doesn't deserve posting....

Calif. court to hear marijuana case By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press Writer
48 minutes ago



SAN FRANCISCO - When Gary Ross was ordered to take a drug test at his new job, the recently hired computer tech had no doubt the results would come back positive for marijuana.

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But along with his urine sample, Ross submitted a doctor's recommendation that he smoke pot to alleviate back pain — a document he figured would save him from being fired.

It didn't: Ross was let go eight days into his tenure because his employer, Ragingwire Inc., said federal law makes marijuana illegal no matter the use.

On Tuesday, the California Supreme Court is due to hear Ross' case, the latest example of the intensifying clash between federal and local authorities over marijuana use.

Ross, 45, contends that Ragingwire discriminated against him because of a back injury and violated the state's fair-employment law by punishing him for legally smoking marijuana at home.

He says he and others using medical marijuana should receive the same workplace protection from discipline that employees with valid painkiller prescriptions do. California voters legalized medicinal marijuana in 1996.

Eleven other states, including Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington state have adopted similar laws and many are now grappling with the same sticky workplace issue of employee use of medicinal marijuana.

The nonprofit marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access, which is representing Ross, estimates that 300,000 Americans use medical marijuana. The Oakland-based group said it has received hundreds of employee discrimination complaints in California since it first began tracking the issue in 2005.

"It's an extremely widespread problem," said Joe Elford, the group's chief lawyer.

Several national medical organizations and disability rights advocates have filed friend-of-the-court papers urging the Supreme Court to rule in Ross' favor.

Ross, who lives in Sacramento, said he permanently injured his back in 1983 while serving as a U.S. Air Force mechanic. He said it wasn't until 1999 that he found true pain relief with marijuana.

The American Medical Association advocates keeping marijuana classified as a tightly controlled and dangerous drug that should not be legalized until more research is conducted.

"I think I'm standing up for everybody else," Ross said. "My motivation is that I don't like to lose and that medical marijuana is effective."

So far, though, Ross has been losing.

Two lower courts have sided with Ragingwire's decision to fire Ross because federal law holds that marijuana is illegal in all guises and a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision declared that state medicinal marijuana laws don't protect users from criminal prosecution.

Ragingwire marketing chief Doug Adams declined to comment on the case.

Ragingwire, a small telecommunications company in Sacramento, has been joined in the Supreme Court by powerful corporate interests such as the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority and the Western Electrical Contractors Association Inc., who said companies could lose federal contracts and grants if they allowed employees to smoke pot.

The conservative nonprofit Pacific Legal Foundation said in a friend-of-the court filing that employers could also be liable for damage done by high workers.

"History abounds with cases of employers found liable," the Sacramento-based foundation wrote, "because their employees were driving vehicles, operating heavy equipment or otherwise performing tasks made more dangerous by their being under the influence of alcohol or drugs."

[zooworker]

Yeah, so it's a troll, but just because of that doesn't mean THIS story isn't relavent, and doesn't deserve posting....
Wonder if I could get some for my knee pains?
Hell I go to work and take pain killers. They are prescribed, next thing you know you will be fired for taking birth control....:cool:

[OzMan]

Wonder if I could get some for my knee pains?

In Oregon, you can.

Hell, I just found out yesterday that people shorter than 4ft9in (I think) can get handicapped parking placards in Oregon :rolleyes:


Hell I go to work and take pain killers. They are prescribed, next thing you know you will be fired for taking birth control....:cool:


Only if you're dumb enough to elect ANOTHER Republican :D

[atomicdog]

As far as I can gather (at least in Washington) BB doesn't drug test at all. Unless you came to work messed up...

It's one of the biggest reasons I decided to work for them.

[johnlow71]

medical marijuana-im all for it:)

[mbnlovebb]

No drug test required or given at bbv.

[Koron]

Damn you guys and ressurecting long dead threads! Again here I am reading a thread and I see OZZY! Then I see the date.

Oh well.

[AbandonedDreams]

he said he'd be back the day blockbuster files bankruptcy.

[Koron]

he said he'd be back the day blockbuster files bankruptcy.

SO next week then? :)

[zooworker]

No drug test required or given at bbv.
But they can, it's not required for hiring. But anytime they want they could request one.Seen it once.

[AbandonedDreams]

SO next week then? :)


that's pretty much what he said, lol.

[The Omen]

is this where we get the good stuff?

[AbandonedDreams]

i got the good stuff in my thread. i'll share it with you since you were nice enough to make it for me.

[The Omen]

thats a different kind of good stuff, but I will take some of either!

[AbandonedDreams]

no, only one kind of good stuff that i'm sharing. :P

[BBVcasualposter]

i just threw up in my mouth