Is smoking weed in parked car a DUI?
Not unless you start driving afterwards. You can booze up in your car as well as long as you're not driving or intend to drive after getting drunk/hammered/blacked out. DUI stands for Driving Under The Influence. Notice the term driving? :-p. That signals that you won't get charged/arrested or be stripped of your license as long as the car is in a parked/stationary position and not moving. **Edit - Do not drink and drive or get high and drive (not even for fun or to experience it). There's always a chance of getting pulled over by the coppers, and death/injury is everywhere. My uncle's car got hit by a drunk chic. Chic lost her license, and was sued for 20,000$ in damages along with car repairs, as well as therapy for my uncle's back. Also, I was stupid enough to be in a car with someone who was high as a kite. Nothing ever happened, but man, I tell you... WORST driving experience of my entire life. The guy drove like a maniac. It's funny, I was just thinking about this event the other day.
Can my job fire me for rumors of smoking weed?
I think they're giving you a great option. If you check your employee handbook, I'm sure you'll find something about random drug testing so they can force you to be tested. You can be fired for refusing to take the drug test and you can be fired for getting a positive test result. So, instead of firing you or going the testing route and firing you, they're giving you an option to leave with a "clean" record. If you work in an at-will state, you can be fired for anything as long as you're not fired for being a member of a federally protected class. That means you can be fired because the manager doesn't like people taller than he is but you can't be fired because you're handicapped.
How hard is it to get a new job after being fired for failing drug test for marijuana?
Well, at my previous job a while back, I was the person who was in charge of also performing the drug tests in the lab, meaning I was the person who determined whether you were positive or negative for a particular drug as well as what amount was present in the body.As far as I know, the results are confidential between you and the potential employer. Other companies will not know if you passed or failed a previous drug test. So, it wouldn’t affect you at all. Unless the next company also drug tested you. Which case that would be two drug tests you failed.I’ve said this in previous questions. Drug tests are designed, not to catch you doing drugs. They could care less about what you do on your own time outside of work. The thing is, if you are positive for a particular drug, that might bring up the question: why can’t he refrain from drugs knowing he’s applying for jobs that might drug test. That a sure tell indicator of a possible drug problem. If a person has a drug problem, then that needs to be addressed before they start the job, any job for that matter.Could you imagine being a bus driver under the influence of any drug? Or a cardiac surgeon? Although you might not think a drug impairs your motor skills or judgement, it does. All drugs have some effect on the body, this includes marijuana. In your case, coding or making mistakes for a program could be costly for a company and it can ruin the reputation of not just you, but the company and it’s employees. Same applies to IT jobs. You need to be fully aware of what you’re doing.If the marijuana you are using is medically prescribed, you would need to address that from the beginning and also have your doctors note ready to present.I hope this helps. Best of luck job hunting!
If I get pulled over and my ashtray has weed ashes can they tell it was weed and arrest me?
^^^^^^ I'm just wondering if I get pulled over can the police tell that my cup ash tray is full of wee ashes? Or is burned weed no weed? I'm just trying to figure out if it safe for me to ride around with it. Marijuana is a magical plant of peace.
If you smoke pot in Amsterdam where it's legal, can you be fired if you fail a drug test in the US?
Look at your company policy. If it stipulates drug free and you pop positive, then you have violated a condition of employment. Note that I am not referring at all to the legality of the action. You may have smoked pot legally where you were at, but before you went there, you had an agreement with your employer and you have made a choice to take a chance that if you are drug tested upon return, you will have to suffer the consequences of those actions. One other note,,,,,,a simple urine test will show activity in the last 28 days. If your employer is using the more expensive hair analysis test, it will show any activity over the last 12 months. I hope this helps you.
What will happen if I got caught with weed by a cop?
First, if you can still be fined for possession of marijuana, it hasn’t been “decriminalized.” It’s just that the seriousness of the crime has been reduced.The police officer who arrests you or writes the citation doesn’t give you a fine. This is left up to the courts. I suspect that the courts have a range of sentences they can hand down for this offense, although I don’t know this, not having seen the statute.My suggestion is that you not walk around with marijuana on your person. That way, you don’t have to be concerned with the amount of the fine you might receive.
If you found out that your best employee smoked marijuana on his or her free time, would you fire that employee? Let’s say that you lived in a country where marijuana is illegal. Also, it would dramatically impact the company to lose such a person.
“If you found out that your best employee smoked marijuana on his or her free time, would you fire that employee?” [Let’s say that you lived in a country where marijuana is illegal and discovered that your top performing employee had that drug in his or her system. Also, it would dramatically impact the company to lose such a person. Would you say that the best decision is to fire that person? Why or why not?]My Problem.As an employer, you cannot allow illegal activities on your work floor, so I’d fire any employee engaging in illegal activities. Alcohol and drug use at work cannot be tolerated, and not just because someone’s performance might be linked negatively to the alcohol or drug, but also because an employer is bound to make sure that employees comply to the rules covered by the company insurance. Many insurance companies refuse claims when the employee had caused damage or injury while under the influence.Which is something you have no knowledge about, because whatever an employee does in his free time is their business. You attend everyone on being alcohol and drug free on the work floor, so that if an employee turns out to be under the influence, that’s on their head.And here’s my problem. I live in The Netherlands, where cannabis use is not illegal and I have a prescription from my ophthalmologist to use pharmaceutical cannabis as medication for my therapy resistant glaucoma. I’ve been denied further disability benefits because the government decided that I can still work. Except that I can’t, beccause I cannot hid my cannabis use from my employer. And even if my particular use does not affect my judgment, I’d be uninsured as an employee ‘under the influence of a narcotic drug’. So I can only imagine how they’d respond to a claim where the employee was under the influence of an illegal drug.
Can you get arrested for having marijuana in your system?
as Cindy said you could be charged with being under the influence (If you were driving, operating heavy machinery etc.) There is no such law as possession by ingestion; you cannot be charged for having marijuana in your system. I don't understand why he (I'm guessing it's really you, it always is when someone says, it's a "friend" regarding drug use) would have to go for a drug test. Is this required by his employer ?