How have HR departments responded to the legalization of marijuana in certain states? That's what a recent survey by the Society for Human Resource Management of 623 HR professionals in 19 states that have either legalized medicinal marijuana or fully legalized recreational cannabis sought to determine.
So far, only four states — Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington — and the District of Columbia have passed laws fully legalizing recreational marijuana use. Nineteen other states have authorized medical marijuana.
Employers in states with fully legal pot are only marginally more likely to have lax policies, according to the survey.
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