Colorado companies allowing their employees to use medical marijuana?

19 03 2010

Medicinal cannabisWhen it comes to medical marijuana, Colorado employers are caught between conflicting laws.

The state’s medical-marijuana amendment, passed by voters in 2000, says that employers don’t have to accommodate medical-marijuana use in the workplace.

But another Colorado law, enacted a few years ago to protect cigarette smokers, prohibits firing employees for engaging in legal activities during nonworking hours.

That suggests that people who smoke medical marijuana before arriving at work could be protected under state law, whether their employers like it or not. And with roughly 30,000 Coloradans now estimated to be qualified to use medical marijuana, employers are growing increasingly uneasy.

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Medicinal Cannabis in the USA

26 11 2008

medusaAs of 2008, thirteen states have passed laws allowing the medicinal use of cannabis.
In most cases, the changes in state law were made through ballot initiatives – where voters can petition proposed law changes to be included on state and local ballots, allowing the public to vote for or against them.

Interestingly, where figures on such ballot initiatives are available, they show that laws in favour of medicinal cannabis laws are approved by more voters and receive a greater percentage of the vote than any successful Presidential candidate in recent memory!

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