By Tony Owusu A cannabis-related company is offering staff members who need the drug an unusual employee benefit. After decades of being lumped in with harder drugs, cannabis has had a rocky path to the mainstream, due in part to its designation as a schedule 1 substance under the Controlled Substances Act. This designation means the drug has a “high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the U.S., and a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision.” But critics of that approach say that as attitudes about the drug, and increasingly positive opinion…