New Jersey:
State marijuana regulators have finally released guidance, though not yet formal regulations, for how businesses can try to ensure their workers aren’t high while on the job.
Cannabis sales at state-regulated dispensaries became legal in April, but the rules for managing workplace impacts from that change have been delayed despite constant agitation from business organizations.
Even the guidance released Friday is only a first step. Formal regulations on the standards for certifying workplace impairment recognition experts, or WIREs, are required to be adopted, but there’s no word yet when those might be coming.
Jeff Brown, executive director of the Cannabis Regulatory Commission, said the guidance doesn’t create or restrict any statutory rights.
“We make very clear that the new law of the land is that employers cannot, unless they meet a certain carveout for federal contracts, take adverse action against an employee simply based on the presence of cannabis metabolites in their blood,” Brown said.
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