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Recreational Marijuana Creating Headaches for Minnesota Employers

As Minnesota employers contend with the potential legalization of recreational marijuana, their human resources teams are grappling with whether to hire prospects who flunk a drug test. So reports KSTP.

“We can’t plan soon enough,” said Christina Hogan, director-elect of the Minnesota chapter of the Society of Human Resource Management. “The question really becomes, what do employers do?”

Of the nearly 150 small, mid- and large-sized businesses in Minnesota surveyed by KSTP about their plans if the state legalizes marijuana, more than 65% of employers who test job candidates now said they will continue testing even if the drug is legalized. Those who fail won’t get hired. “Smoking pot, and legalizing it, is just a whole new world for us that we don’t know if we want to get into,” said Sharon McCord, an executive recruiter for manufacturers in Red Wing.

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