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An alternate perspective could be that California is lagging the other western states on legalization exactly because of overreaching campaigns that don't acknowledge the conservatism in the middle and south of the state.

A previous cannabis legalization effort in California, IIRC, proposed to make cannabis consumption a protected employment class.

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> conservatism in the middle and south of the state

You don't even have to go to the middle or south of the state. Look at the current gnashing of teeth over marijuana dispensaries in San Francisco.

Wouldn't making it a protected class just be a roundabout way of making drug tests illegal? Are there any other side effects of doing this? Other than not being able to fire people for talking about how lit they got the night before, I suppose.

Talking about the night before is already protected in CA. You cannot take any action against an employee in CA for off duty conduct.

If a drug test result is positive you can certainly be fired for what may have been "off duty conduct" - ask any commercial pilot.

I thought California was lagging behind because their first try included a crazy monopolistic corporate giveaway to a handful of established companies.

Wasn't that Ohio?

Possibly, I don't really follow this stuff.

Yes it was.

That was Ohio, however, there was the belief that medical cannabis providers in California wanted to keep their control over the system where legalizing would have made things more restrictive.

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