"Medical marijuana" and its legal status is just more evidence of how corrupt our society has been made by the Drug War. "Medical marijuana" is just a doctor's license to get high. During the prohibition of alcohol, you could also get a medical prescription for alcohol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition
http://cocktails.about.com/od/histor...hibition_2.htm
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Another interesting provision to prohibition was that alcohol was available via a physician’s prescription. For centuries liquor had been used for medicinal purposes, in fact many of the liqueurs we know today were first developed as miracle cures for various ailments. Despite the fact that in 1916 whiskey and brandy were removed from The Pharmacopeia of the United States of America and in 1917 the American Medical Association stated that alcohol “…use in therapeutics as a tonic or stimulant or for food has no scientific value…” and voted in support of prohibition, there was still a belief in liquor's medicinal benefits among many.
Because of this established belief that liquor could cure and prevent a variety of ailments, doctors were still able to prescribe liquor to patients on a specially designed government prescription form that could be filled at any pharmacy. When medicinal whiskey stocks were low the government would increase its production. A significant amount of the prescription alcohol supplies were diverted from their intended destinations by bootleggers and corrupt individuals during prohibition.
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Yes, businesses should reserve the right to restrict employees away from being under the influence of mind altering substances like pot and alcohol. But, would this company fire an employee for testing positive for pot if it were legal or decriminalized? Would they even be looking for it? Probably not.