Tag: Medical Marijuana
NJ Appellate Court Weighs in On Medical Marijuana Use and The Workplace
Recently, I have been getting more and more questions in my counseling practice regarding what employers must do when an employee or prospective employee advises that he/she is a medical marijuana user. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of legal authority that a lawyer can presently consider in providing advice on this topic. While New Jersey’s […]
Will Medical Marijuana Users Soon Have Legal Protections in the New Jersey Workplace?
Get ready! Medical marijuana users in New Jersey may soon have new protections in the workplace. Currently in New Jersey, employers have no strict obligation to accommodate medical marijuana users and employers may lawfully terminate an employee who fails a drug test, even if the use is medicinal. Despite the current view in New Jersey, […]
Employment and the Use of Medical Marijuana
New Jersey’s medical marijuana program went into effect in 2007. Since that time, more than 11,000 persons have been issued ID cards under The Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act (“Act’) permitting them to use medicinal marijuana and to obtain the drug at one of the state’s five (5) marijuana dispensaries. One of the issues that […]
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