The e-book Managing Medical Marijuana in Local Government: An Integrated Action Plan, written by William Kirchhoff, a long-time local government manager and now management adviser, Coronado, California, and Stephen Zimney, president, Zimney Associates, New York, New York, has these four purposes for local government managers and human resources directors: 

First, it serves to alert them that when medical marijuana is legalized, employees who work for local governments will be using it as medicine.

Second, for those managers who have only a passing knowledge of what marijuana is other than a criminal activity that is to be prosecuted by the police department, it explains how medical marijuana can be a concern for local government management.

Third, the book puts forth a plan of action—policy rewriting and value alignment—to cope with the likely removal of marijuana from the federal government's Schedule 1 list of toxic substances.

Fourth, it includes a more than 20-page model drug policy that can be used to upgrade existing drug policies. In conducting research for the book, Kirchhoff found that most drug policies need to be more specific and comprehensive to cover current drug laws, not to mention what will need to be done when medical marijuana is legalized.

Here are two Public Management (PM) resources:

“Marijuana at City Hall: It’s Medicine Now,” December 2013

“Managing Medical Marijuana,” January/February 2015