As marijuana has become legal in states across the U.S., many employers have attempted to stay out of conversations around weed at work. Yet with cannabis use at record highs, employers will need to contemplate what this means for their workforce.
Ninety-four percent of U.S. adults live in a state where medical cannabis is legal, according to cannabis industry insight platform New Frontier Data, and more than half live in a state where both medical and recreational use is legal. Those recreational activities are overlapping with professional life: over 1 in 5 employees say that they have used marijuana during work hours, and over 13% of people say that they use marijuana at work more than once a month, according to data from American Addiction Centers.
