{"id":3071,"date":"2021-12-16T11:31:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T11:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiEDP3n0MXGqVMh-PMZuEHdoIqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow3cCjCzCgy7sDMKy5hAc"},"modified":"2021-12-16T11:31:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T11:31:10","slug":"cannabis-businesses-not-immune-from-vaccine-mandate-controversy-marijuana-business-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=3071","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis businesses not immune from vaccine-mandate controversy – Marijuana Business Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Most U.S. employers already require their employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or have plans to require them to do so soon.<\/p>\n

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But vaccine mandates aren\u2019t so popular among cannabis employers, most of whom are too small to face government directives.<\/p>\n

Cannabis employers that are following vaccine-or-test rules often say they are simply following vaccine decrees required by state and local regulators.<\/p>\n

The reluctance to impose a vaccine-or-test regimen likely reflects a libertarian streak that\u2019s unsurprising in an industry that often flouts federal law and attracts consumers skeptical of traditional pharmaceuticals and the companies that make them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI left it up to my employees,\u201d said Luis Vega, owner of Wepa Farms, a hemp company in North Haven, Connecticut, with about 25 employees.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of our staff and everybody that works with us is pretty open-minded to understand that we all make individual choices and individual ideas on what we want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to an informal online poll of more than 300 retail store owners conducted by MJBizDaily<\/em>, 60% said they would not implement employee vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n

Only 31% said they were requiring them, while the rest had not yet settled on a plan.<\/p>\n

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The controversy over employer vaccine mandates is far from limited to the cannabis industry.<\/p>\n

Even as most private employers now require or are planning to require their employees to get vaccinated, employers also worry that mandates will scare off employees in an already tight labor market made even more constricted by the pandemic.<\/p>\n

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