Osler's Razor

.... or at least that is what USA Today is calling it.  With the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos squaring off in the big game, it turns out that the Super Bowl involves the two states which have legalized marijuana!

I have waded a little into this fray, and find the debate fascinating.  Last weekend, someone asked me a good question about legal marijuana:  Does legalization mean that companies can't fire people who test positive?  I think what this might spur is a unified approach to the abuse of legal substances-- alcohol, oxycontin, marijuana, etc.-- in those places where marijuana is now legal.  Sure, and employer can often fire an employee for abusing alcohol, so I suppose the same will be true of marijuana.  Still, most employers have policies that favor treatment of abuse, and hopefully that will be broadened and extended.

In other news, President Obama had a bit to say about marijuana in the New Yorker, and I agree with what he had to say about the developments in Washington and Colorado:  “it’s important for it to go forward because it’s important for society not to have a situation in which a large portion of people have at one time or another broken the law and only a select few get punished.”