Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some firms are literally calling in the dogs. Canine detectives, trained to recognize the smell of marijuana and other drugs, have nosed around offshore oil platforms owned by Pennzoil, Mobil and Exxon. Atlanta's Alpha Academy of Dog Training supplies drug-sniffing German shepherds, springer spaniels and golden retrievers to corporate clients and law-enforcement agencies...
...well as during working hours. Because the tests do not reveal when a drug was used, workers could be penalized or fired for what they do in the evening or at weekend parties. Workers' rights advocates maintain that corporate antidrug policies can be particularly unfair in the case of marijuana, which has been virtually decriminalized in some states and cities. Says Los Angeles Labor Lawyer Glenn Rothner: "Termination for marijuana use, or worse, for simply having minute traces of marijuana in the body when tested is sentencing these employees to the equivalent of corporate capital punishment for an offense that...
...their own time is none of the company's business is being undermined by new evidence of the lingering effects of drug use. In November, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Medical Center published the results of a study on how marijuana use affects the ability of pilots to land planes. The pilots in the experiment smoked marijuana and then tested their skills in flight simulators. A full day after taking the drug, long after any sensation of being high had passed, the pilots were still swerving dangerously upon landing. One "crashed...
...mistakes can cost lives. Since 1975, about 50 train accidents have been attributed to drug- or alcohol- impaired workers. In those mishaps, 37 people were killed, 80 were injured, and more than $34 million worth of property was destroyed. In 1979, for instance, a Conrail employee was high on marijuana at the controls of a locomotive when he missed a stop signal and crashed into the rear of another train at Royersford, Pa. The accident killed two people and caused damages amounting...
...National Transportation Safety Board attributed a fatal 1983 air accident to illegal drug abuse. Two crewmen died when a cargo flight crash- landed at Newark airport. Autopsies showed that the pilot had been smoking marijuana, possibly while flying. In an incident last March, a New York-based air-traffic controller who had been injecting three grams of cocaine daily at work put a DC-10 jumbo jet on a collision course with a private plane. At the last moment, the smaller aircraft made an emergency landing...