Do cannabis ‘hangovers’ impair you at work?
Newsroom | Farah Hancock | October 12, 2020
Do the effects of cannabis mess with cognitive ability for days after use and are urine tests the best way to sniff-out at risk employees?
Kirk Hardy has in his boardroom a bulk bag of dried parsley flakes, which is well past its use-by date.
It's a prop, not an elderly garnish. The former police drug squad detective boasts he can estimate by sight what 14 grams - half an ounce - of parsley is.
The 14 grams is what’s proposed as the amount of cannabis a person can legally buy a day should cannabis be legalised [in New Zealand]. Hardy transfers a portion of parsley from the big bag into a smaller, snap-lock bag. There’s a fair bit of adding, eyeballing, bag shaking, then subtracting. He almost hits his goal.
His bag of parsley weighs in at 13 grams. He doesn't say anything, but you can sense disappointment.
Hardy is the CEO and founder of The Drug Detection Agency, which specialises in workplace drug testing. If cannabis is legalised and people across [New Zealand] can legally buy a 14 gram bag of cannabis every day, he expects his business will boom.