A plan for New Mexico’s most populous county to stop punishing most government employees for off-hours marijuana use is moving forward following a unanimous vote this week by county commissioners.
The Board of Commissioners in Bernalillo County, which contains Albuquerque, adopted the first of two parts of a plan from Vice Chair Eric Olivas at a meeting on Tuesday: a resolution in support of revising the county’s Drug and Alcohol-Free Workplace Policy to remove cannabis “when used legally off-duty for medical or recreational purposes” from its definition of illegal drugs.
“Under the proposed amendments to the policy,” it says, “only employees required to carry a firearm, and employees required to hold a commercial driver’s license will be administered random and pre-employment drug tests for cannabis.”…