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Employers Rejecting Pot Users Will Pay a High Price
As marijuana is decriminalized, drug-testing job applicants makes less and less sense.
So what if he fires up a bong on Saturdays? If he's the best person for the job....
Photographer: Jeff Vinnick/Getty ImagesIn Youngstown, Ohio, the employment problem is not a shortage of jobs. Nor is it a shortage of workers. The problem is not stingy employers who don’t want to pay enough to attract good workers. Nor is the problem that potential workers are too busy playing video games to show up for their job interviews.
So what's the trouble? The only thing standing between willing employers and willing workers is a drug test.