Daily News | Can I get fired for smoking legal marijuana in New Jersey?
But for some cannabis consumers, it also brought questions. Chiefly, whether employers can test you for marijuana and whether finding weed in your system is grounds for taking away your job. And, like with everything else under our current patchwork system of state and federal marijuana laws, it can be pretty confusing.
In short, the answer is yes and no. Generally, New Jersey’s marijuana laws do allow employers in the Garden State to drug test current and prospective employees — and they can still discipline you if you possess or use marijuana on the job or come to work impaired. But, by law, there can’t be any “adverse employment consequence” — like, in most cases, getting fired or not hiring you — if you fail a drug test for marijuana alone, Ami Kachalia, campaign strategist with the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey,. Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the principle element of marijuana that produces a high, can stay in your system for much longer than other drugs, making it difficult to test for impairment in the moment.
So, if you test positive for marijuana on a drug test mandated by your employer, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you were under the influence on the job — which is something your employer
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