Cannabis legislation will create challenges: Sask. Chamber CEO
As the country grinds closer to marijuana legalization, the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce is urging businesses to have prudent policies in place.
From workplace health and safety to a duty to accommodate cannabis for medical use, CEO Steve McLellan said many challenges will accompany the opportunities this summer with the new law.
“When it is legal, the world will change at least for a while,” he told members of Prince Albert and District Chamber of Commerce Friday.
Citing a lack of information from various levels of government around work-place related cannabis legislation, the provincial Chamber outlined six recommendations employers should undertake. They include periodic updates and adaptations of clear drug and alcohol policies, addressing medical and recreational cannabis use separately, understanding health benefit programs relating to medical cannabis, and rolling out drug testing procedures. McLellan said employees will have to decide on what cannabis impairment looks like and how to deal with it appropriately.