OLYMPIA, Wash.—The state’s Medical Use of Marijuana Act does not prohibit employers from firing workers for using pot off the job, Washington’s Supreme Court has ruled. The medical marijuana law, adopted by Washington state voters in 1998, does not “provide a private cause of action for discharge of an employee who uses medical marijuana,” nor [...]
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Off-the-job medical marijuana use does not bar firing: Wash. high court
June 18th, 2011 
Greenleafaz 
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Tags: drug, employer, marijuana, medical, medical marijuana, policy 
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Medical Marijuana Laws Leave Employers Dazed and Confused
December 6th, 2010 Greenleafaz Medical marijuana laws are designed to ease pain for migraine sufferers and other people with conditions that leave them in chronic pain. Now they are also causing headaches for employers. Luke Vezey, a Colorado Springs man with a medical marijuana card state law requires to light up legally, was fired from his job for failing [...]
