Manitoba civil servant policy says booze OK, marijuana not, at office parties

WINNIPEG — Manitoba civil servants will be able swig a beer at office parties, but smoking a joint will still be a no-no after recreational cannabis is legalized, says a draft policy obtained by The Canadian Press.

It's an issue that many employers, both public and private, will have to deal with once marijuana becomes legal this year.

"Alcohol is ingrained in our ways of doing business. Marijuana isn't," said Sean MacDonald, who teaches business administration at the University of Manitoba's Asper School of Business

"Particularly within corporate Canada, there is still a long distance in terms of both education and cultural transformation before they're going to view (alcohol and marijuana) on the same level."

The five-page draft policy from Manitoba's civil service commission, to take effect once recreational pot is legal, says booze will still be OK at some functions, but pot won't be.

"Consumption of alcohol may be acceptable when in conjunction with a workplace event or social function where consumption has been authorized by the appropriate employing authority," the document states.

"The use of cannabis is prohibited at all times in relation to working hours ... and work-related events or social functions, unless it has been prescribed (medically)."

There will also be different rules for buying liquor and cannabis on a lunch break under the draft policy.

"Employees who purchase alcohol during a rest period or meal break may store the alcohol, unopened, in a discreet location in the workplace until the end of that work day," the policy states.

"The possession and/or storage of cannabis in the workplace is prohibited at all times, unless it has been prescribed."

MacDonald said many employers will initially be cautious when it comes to cannabis and set down strict rules.

"I am sure over time they will evolve and probably loosen up to some degree."

The Manitoba civil service commission would not comment on the draft policy, other than to say it is still a work in progress.

"An updated policy on workplace impairment is being drafted and will be made available publicly once finalized," the commission said in a brief written statement.

Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press

time they get up to speed.....draft beer and daft policy

this is a funny read

Rush to legalize cannabis a threat to health, safety: Drug Safety Canada
The rush to legalize marijuana by July 1 is a threat to health and safety. Its unintended consequences include adding yet another stupefying drug to alcohol and a long list of other drugs that lead to vehicular accidents, addiction, and harms with inadequate safety warnings.

The Liberal marijuana bill will make marijuana more easily available to our children and teens. The proposed health and safety warnings on the packaging fall far short of what users need to make an informed decision on its true risks. Our legal system is many months away from being ready to enforce the new impaired driving law. And the age limit for purchase and use should be based on the evidence of risks to mental health for those under 25.

Marijuana is a Class II narcotic that makes users find things very funny that aren’t, crashes their blood sugar so they eat a pile of sweet and salty junk food, makes them forget what they did 30 seconds before, inspires apathy, impairs their ability to drive safely, increases blood pressure and can cause heart palpitations. And those are just the short-term effects.
Ask any Liberal MP why they are legalizing marijuana and they will immediately rhyme off their two key talking points: to keep it out of the hands of children and make sure criminals can’t profit from it. Both claims, in my opinion, are completely false. To make something that is illegal less available, you don’t make it legal and allow anyone over 19 to grow it in their home.

There is no going back on this policy.

After breaking a series of election promises the Liberals are now desperate for a promise they can keep. But what is the rush?

Bill C-45 will allow people to grow up to four marijuana plants in their home, and unlike prescription drugs that are normally kept out of reach of children in childproof containers, the plants will be out in the open for sunlight. How hard would it be for children and teens to help themselves to a few high potency blossoms, enough to make them sick, ruin a day’s learning at school, cause impaired driving, or sell?

This section of the bill must be reversed to eliminate home production to actually protect children and teens.

And children and teens will continue to get marijuana from the same people they do now; older brothers, sisters or friends, but more easily because it will be socially acceptable and widely distributed.

The theory that drug dealers and organized criminals, who have ignored criminal laws for decades, will fold up their tent and quit the business because of “regulations” is a fairy tale. To believe that you have to also believe all users would rather walk blocks or drive kilometres to buy their marijuana at a government-approved store, and pay HST plus a special tax, instead of having it discreetly delivered to them at their home or local pub with no taxes, available credit and potentially laced with other drugs.
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What worker who operates a company vehicle or machinery, or is responsible for the well-being of others, wants their boss to see them coming out of a marijuana store?

In the last federal election, the Liberal party's platform promised “evidence-based crime policy.” So what is the evidence?

Just months before the election medical experts told the parliamentary health committee marijuana is a key cause of school dropouts, is as addictive as alcohol (eight per cent of regular users will be come addicted) causes vehicular accidents, contains more known carcinogens than tobacco and can cause or trigger psychosis and other psychiatric illnesses among people under the age of 25.

That is why the last thing in the world most parents want in their schools, sport fields or communities is marijuana. Why have they not been heard? And why is the federal government going to allow those aged 19 and over to buy and use the drug?

We are calling for the age of majority for marijuana purchase and use to be 25 years, based on the evidence. This will keep many young people out of our hospitals.

In 2014 after a "4-20" street party in Vancouver, more than 50 young people jammed the local hospital emergency department throwing up and pleading for help, needing emergency intubation and overdose treatment. Imagine what might happen on Canada Day this year when many of the 3.8 million Canadians who have never used marijuana light up, having had no proper safety warnings.

There are far too many questions regarding how our hospitals, courts and police will apply the impaired driving law to introduce legalization on July 1. We are calling for this date to be delayed by one year, until the health and safety issues can be better addressed.

Where is the plan to implement impaired driving laws? There is no agreement on what level of THC in your blood is safe for driving, and no roadside test to enforce a criminal conviction is approved. Since marijuana can have hallucinogenic properties, shouldn’t the legal limit of THC for someone driving 50 tons of truck or car through our cites or on our highways be zero?

As well, just one legal challenge could hold up any enforcement for years waiting for appeals and a Supreme Court decision, reducing highway safety for all of us for years.

Canada will need a minimum of 3,000 specially-trained drug recognition experts to conduct 12-step tests at police stations, but only have 800 now. We also need to train 65,000 police officers and hundreds of judges on how to apply the law. And all this by July 1? Impossible.

This rush to meet the July 1 legalization date is foolish. The Liberal federal government pretends it is concerned about the health of Canadians by putting health warning labels on butter and cheese. Yet they are making it easier to get a drug that has the potential to cause a whole range of health issues, and has no plans to place the same health warnings as it do on the label for Cesamet, a synthetic cannabis in prescription drug form with a label that warns against depression, anxiety, panic, paranoia, memory loss, diminished cognitive performance, and hallucinations. Not fun.

We are calling for all marijuana packages to have these same specific warnings of harms as Cesamet, which are all well documented for marijuana, another important reason to delay this bill.

Oakville's Terence Young is chair of Drug Safety Canada, the advocacy group he founded in 2001.

they would rather you ate the fake shit lol

nabilone
cesamet

TOXICOLOGY Acute Toxicity: The oral LD50 of nabilone was >1000 mg/kg in mice, >2000 mg/kg in rats, >1 mg/kg in cats and >5 mg/kg in monkeys. The oral and intravenous LD50 in dogs was higher than 1 mg/kg. Signs Page 13 of 21 of toxicity included hypoactivity, ataxia and respiratory depression in all species. Dogs given singly intravenous doses of 1 mg/kg promptly became ataxic and lost consciousness for about 48 hours. Subacute Toxicity: Rats: Nabilone was administered to rats for 14 consecutive days, at a dose of 0.8 mg/kg, by the intravenous route. Two animals died during the study. Effects seen after dosing included loss of righting reflex, intermittent tonic convulsions, hypnosis, vocalization, Straub tail and hypothermia. Nabilone was administered in the diet to rats for 92 days, at dosage levels of 6.25, 12.50 and 25.00 mg/kg. Hypothermia was observed in all treated animals during the first 24 hours. During the first week, catatonia and hyperirritability to touch occurred in the high-dose group. Slight to moderate decreases in body weight gains occurred in all treated groups. Dogs: Intravenous doses of 0.4 mg/kg/day were administered to dogs for 14 days. Effects observed after dosing included hyperirritability to touch, sedation, respiratory depression, fine tremors, ataxia and anorexia. All dogs developed thrombophlebitis at the injection site. Nabilone also was administered orally for 3 months at dose levels of 0.25, 0.5, and 1.0 mg/kg/day. During the first week, ataxia was seen in the mid and high-dose group and anorexia in the high-dose group. Chronic Toxicity: A year-long study in dogs was initiated, but terminiated after 7 months due to high mortality. Nabilone was administered orally at dose levels of 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 mg/kg/day. Eight dogs per dose were treated. Most deaths were preceded by convulsions. No histopathologic lesions were found in the brain or other tissues. The occurrence of convulsions and death in these dogs was believed to be due to the accumulation of a toxic metabolite in the plasma and the brain.

THIS SHIT CAN KILL YOU!!

So sick of the booze approving sectors doubles standards.

Yadda, yadda, yadda...I’ll be so glad when propaganda BS like this is gone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Young_(politician)
This guy is a nut case

So business as usual, take a walk and smoke a joint.