I’m a newspaper reporter in Oregon, and I smoke small amounts of pot almost daily for maintenance. I live in constant fear of my employer finding out and firing me.
The whole situation’s so screwed up. Anyone with two brain cells should know how much more damaging alcohol is, and there are a lot of functional – and dysfunctional –alcoholics and DUIIs where I live.
My state’s pretty close to legalizing it, and our neighbor up north, Washington, already has. But that won’t stop employers from discriminating based on their own personal beliefs.