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FurrowedBrow
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Calif. Supreme Court rules workers can be fired for using medical marijuana [CA]
#7925373 - 01/24/08 05:38 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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Associated Press Jan. 24, 2008 12:02 PM
SAN FRANCISCO - Employers can fire workers found to have used medical marijuana even if it was legally prescribed, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The high court upheld a small Sacramento telecommunications company's firing of a man who flunked a company-ordered drug test. Gary Ross held a medical marijuana card authorizing him to use the drug to treat a back injury suffered while serving in the Air Force.
The company, Ragingwire Inc., argued that it rightfully fired Ross because all marijuana use is illegal under federal law, which does not recognize the medical marijuana laws in California and 11 other states.
The U.S. Supreme Court declared in 2005 that state medicinal marijuana laws don't protect users from prosecution. The Drug Enforcement Administration and other federal agencies have been actively shutting down major medical marijuana dispensaries throughout California over the last two years and charging their operators with felony distribution charges.
Ragingwire said it fired Ross because it feared it could be the target of a federal raid, among other reasons.
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority and the Western Electrical Contractors Association Inc. had joined Ragingwire's case, arguing that companies could lose federal contracts and grants if they allowed employees to smoke pot.
The conservative nonprofit Pacific Legal Foundation said in a friend-of-the-court filing that employers could also be liable for damage done by high workers.
Ross had argued that medical marijuana users should receive the same workplace protection from discipline that employees with valid painkiller prescriptions do. California voters legalized medicinal marijuana in 1996.
The nonprofit marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access, which represents Ross, estimates that 300,000 Americans use medical marijuana. The Oakland-based group said it has received hundreds of employee discrimination complaints in California since it began tracking the issue in 2005.
The American Medical Association advocates keeping marijuana classified as a tightly controlled and dangerous drug that should not be legalized until more research is done.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0124marijuana-workplace0124-ON.html
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FurrowedBrow
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Re: Calif. Supreme Court rules workers can be fired for using medical marijuana [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#7925383 - 01/24/08 05:39 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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itsthedank
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Re: Calif. Supreme Court rules workers can be fired for using medical marijuana [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#7925463 - 01/24/08 05:50 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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"The American Medical Association advocates keeping marijuana classified as a tightly controlled and dangerous drug that should not be legalized until more research is done."
What more research do they need...it's right in front of their faces...oh yeah, they need some governmental "genious" to give them the clear...FUCK!
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Re: Calif. Supreme Court rules workers can be fired for using medical marijuana [Re: itsthedank]
#7926306 - 01/24/08 08:12 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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I remember that in some other topic (about non-smoking employees being fired) almost everyone kept saying that employers should have a right to fire whoever they want, for whatever reason they want. I hope you still think so.
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Re: Calif. Supreme Court rules workers can be fired for using medical marijuana [Re: Mandark]
#7927024 - 01/24/08 09:56 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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Quote:
Mandark said: I remember that in some other topic (about non-smoking employees being fired) almost everyone kept saying that employers should have a right to fire whoever they want, for whatever reason they want. I hope you still think so.
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Re: Calif. Supreme Court rules workers can be fired for using medical marijuana [Re: TODAY]
#7927036 - 01/24/08 09:58 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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This is absurd!
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Re: Calif. Supreme Court rules workers can be fired for using medical marijuana [Re: Knoa6]
#7927530 - 01/24/08 11:24 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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Employers should have a right to fire whoever they want, for whatever reason they want.
If employees continue to work for a company that works like that, they will end up reaping what they sow.
There are plenty of companies who pay well and do not drug test.
Its true that a lot of crappy jobs do test for drugs - If you make 40k - 70k, its common to be asked for a drug test.
But if you make 80k - 120k, its much less common.
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