“We can’t plan soon enough,” said Christina Hogan, director-elect of the Minnesota chapter of the Society of Human Resource Management. “The question really becomes, what do employers do?”
Of the nearly 150 small, mid- and large-sized businesses in Minnesota surveyed by KSTP about their plans if the state legalizes marijuana, more than 65% of employers who test job candidates now said they will continue testing even if the drug is legalized. Those who fail won’t get hired. “Smoking pot, and legalizing it, is just a whole new world for us that we don’t know if we want to get into,” said Sharon McCord, an executive recruiter for manufacturers in Red Wing.