Wal-Mart Fires Cancer Patient for Legally Using Medical Marijuana
Joseph Casias, 29, has sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor.
Despite his condition, he has dutifully gone to work every day for the last five years at a Wal-Mart in Battle Creek, Michigan, where in 2008 he was named Associate of the Year.
Casias is also a legal medical marijuana patient under Michigan state law. He uses marijuana with the recommendation of his doctor to relieve the effects of cancer.
But Wal-Mart, the world’s largest public corporation, has no sympathy for his condition or regard for Michigan’s state law. Last November, Wal-Mart fired Casias because he tested positive for marijuana during a routine drug screening.
Here’s what a Wal-Mart spokesman had to say:
“In states, such as Michigan, where prescriptions for marijuana can be obtained, an employer can still enforce a policy that requires termination of employment following a positive drug screen. We believe our policy complies with the law and we support decisions based on the policy.”
To add insult to injury, Wal-Mart is now challenging Casias’ eligibility for unemployment. Simply outrageous. This is the thanks he gets for showing up to work and doing his job for the last five years, despite being stricken with a potentially life-threatening illness. “I gave them everything,” Casias told a local news outlet. “One-hundred-ten percent every day. Anything they asked me to do I did. More than they asked me to do. Twelve to 14 hours a day.”
Sadly, the dilemma facing medical marijuana patients who still have no legal protection from being fired is nothing new.
Readers who would like to register a complaint with Wal-Mart can find corporate contact information here.
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112 comments
boycott walmart!!!
Who does Walmart think they are to do such a horendous thing. A crime. To fire someone whos on Med. Marijuana. Id sue them for 10 of 1,000’s of dollars maybe millions 8/
We do have a long way to go. It really makes me angry when i see these companies firing their best employees over cannabis, because some policy says they can do this. Then POS employees that hate every one and every thing about their job get to keep working. The world seems crazier and crazier the older i get.
This is why I stopped shopping Facist-mart long time ago , they are just as bad as other lobbyists that pander in washington. They sell mostly chinesse shit anyway. Thanks wal-mart for being the most facist store on the planet.
email sent. boycott on.
Nobody should shop at Wal-mart… this is a perfect example why.
WTF! Walmart has its employees drug tested! Why? I will shop there any more.
You DO realize that whatever you do to Wal- Mart will affect the people you are trying to support first.
Less commerce means fewer employees and in the end these newly unemployed will blame US.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
OOPS I mean i will NOT shop there any more.
Hmm, one more reason to keep not shopping there.
OUTRAGEOUS!!! ARGHH….
http://walmartstores.com/7663.aspx
SORRY for all the posts but this is TOTALY UNACCEPTABLE !
HERES WALFARTS ETHICS:
Wal-Mart’s Three Basic Beliefs
When Sam Walton founded Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (“Wal-Mart”), he established the “Three Basic Beliefs” to which we remain firmly committed:
1.Respect for the Individual
2.Service to our Customers
3.Strive for Excellence
WELL YOU FAIL AT STEP 1!!!
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Wallmart will never get a dime from me again. I wonder if every WallMart employee was fired for any kind of prescribed drug. I smell one hell of a lawsuit. If no other employee was fired and they were on a prescribed medication by a physision, then there is basis for descrimination. I hope wallmart pays for all future medical bills after they are sued.
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Send them a note letting them know your plans to boycott (and I usually joke about I might as well direct deposit my check at walmart but that’s over with until I see CHANGE)!
We are simply asking for humane treatment of our seriously ill!
Its time to grow up and act right!
BOYCOTT that hole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All I can say is KISS MY ASS WALMART!!!!!!!!
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Until the lawa for marijuana are re-written and a drug free policy is implemented for employers that excludes medical marijuana from the list of drugs you can get fired for.suing Walmart won’t get you anywhere.And as noted here before,this economical depression has most people living on such a tight budget that most people shop at Walmart because they have the
lowest prices,and if you can show them an ad from any store that is priced lower,they lower their price + 10% off that price.
Although Wakmart is not the same store Sam Walton envisioned,it is still the top dog in superstores. A boycott will be a hard sell.
Shitmart don’t realize that 60 to 75% of the US is for medical Marijuana. This evil empire encourages companies to move out of the US to get their prices cheaper.They dont give their employees company paid insurance and yet 4 of the top richest people in the US are Shitmart execs. Have’nt shopped there in years, looks like my streak is going to continue.
I am going to boycott the store now for sure. Ridiculous.
E-mail sent. I will continue to not shop at Walmart.
Their response:
Thank you for your message.
Dear William,
Thank you for your recent inquiry. In states, such as Michigan, where
prescriptions for marijuana can be obtained, an employer can still enforce a
policy that requires termination of employment following a positive drug screen.
We believe our policy complies with the law and we support decisions based on
the policy.
Sincerely,
Wal-Mart Customer Care
I think we should all send wal-mart an email asking what they are thinking, and for them to justify what they did.
Jim Lahey Park Supervisor couldn’t believe the news… “You idiots have loaded up a hair trigger, double barrel shit machine gun and the barrels are pointing straight at your heads”
I just sent my e-mail to Wal-Mart Corp Headquarters. Shame on them! No respect, concern or compassion. Sorry to say marijuana is still not legal here in Wisconsin. My Mom could have used it before she died of cancer. They use addictive narcotic drugs with terrible side effects but the big drug companies make lot of $$$$ so that’s OK! NOT!!!!
My mom worked, and died for Wal-mart. She died of cancer of all things. She was never allowed to use mmj. I hate the way they treat people. Wal-mart is the real criminals here. They say mmj co-ops are only in it for the money? I have news for you all. Wal-mart ONLY cares about money.
The statement they made about it being allowed to fire people, and policy to fire people that test positive made me so upset. Even Wal-mart should know that just because something is policy, there are always exceptions that can be made. This is about people, and it is the right thing to do. They need to hire him back, give him back pay, and help him in any way they can.
WallMaat saved millions by fireing a guy with inoperable cancer. I am fireing WallMart for being terminally stupid,greedy and big pharma drug pusher. I wish this story would hit the national news, NOW!!!!
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I F-ING HATE WAL-MART !!!!!and hate is a strong word……
If I’m not mistaken they are real big in pushing pills.
Can you say BOYCOTT.
Walmart is America’s nicotine fix
There is a petition up @ Change.Org
Stop Walmart from Firing Cancer Patients for Using Medical Marijuana
http://criminaljustice.change.org/actions/view/stop_walmart_from_firing_cancer_patients_for_using_medical_marijuana
Well, glad they show what empty heartless greedy bastards they have always been. I’m glad their policy help expose what they really have always been. It just makes it easier to stay out of any of their white trash stores.
This is nothing less than legalized discrimination.
Are we surprised that Wal Mart fired a loyal, terminally ill cancer patient? No.
Are we surprised that the same company is seeking his unemployment insurance be denied, on the grounds that he failed random drug screen.
How can medical cannabis patients have rights, if we don’t fight for them?
Arnold Big Boss vetoed a bill that would have prevented employers from firing legal medical marijuana patients.
It was THE WILL of the Californian people and the authors of prop 215 to protect patients from unfair discrimination.
Here is my letter I sent to Wal Mart HQ.
I’m also following up with an ethics complaint.
This movement is powerful.
Why don’t we all stand together and flood Wal Mart with support for Mr Casias?
Getting mad about it and doing nothing makes you out to be a hypocrite.
If it’s worth living for, then it’s worth dying for.
Terminally ill patients NEED champions in the advocacy community to ensure they have the legal rights we fought so hard to give them.
What has happened to due process friends?
THE LETTER TO WAL MART:
Joseph Casias, 29, has sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor.
Despite his condition, he has dutifully gone to work every day for the last five years at a Walmart in Battle Creek, Michigan, where in 2008 he was named Associate of the Year.
Your company fired him for legally using medical marijuana to alleviate his pain and suffering.
I am boycotting ALL Wal Mart stores until he is either rehired or wal mart ceases actions attempting to deny Mr. Casias his earned unemployment compensation.
You fired him and now, to make an example out of him, you are trying to rob him of his legal right to unemployment. I am severely disappointed in Wal Mart Stores Inc.
I guess when it’s comes to loyalty and hard work, Wal Mart will follow corporate policy and the law even when it’s ethically imperative that they be flexible.
I am not afraid of you corporation and I will not be intimidated into silence.
Medical Cannabis patients are not a threat to Wal Mart.
Patients deserve respect and should not be be discriminated against for medicating with doctor recommended medication in their off-hours.
American citizens have a right to privacy and Wal Mart has no business violating the privacy of legitimate medical cannabis patients.
Mr Casias was a legally registered medical marijuana patient.
Wal Mart should apologize for wrongfully firing a TERMINALLY ILL medical cannabis patient.
Wal Mart should be ashamed by it’s attempts at denying Mr Casias the unemployment insurance he needs after being wrongfully fired for testing positive for legally recommended medical cannabis.
Using corporate policy and the ‘letter of the law’ is a poor excuse for firing a loyal worker after fiver years of intense dedication.
CHANT IT WITH ME. Let’s make headlines folks.
I am demanding my fellow freedom fighters bump this story all over the blogosphere.
Why don’t we hold a civil protest outside of our local Wal Mart’s?
We can take Wal Marts bogus excuse and plaster it on our picketing signs.
I’m going to do it. Who’s with me?
“MEDICAL CANNABIS ADVOCATES BOYCOTT WAL MART”
People only work at WalMart because it is the only job there is. That is why WalMart is hell.
I do believe it’s time for a Walmart Boycott.
Cnn did a short bit and they left out one tiny detail, the fact that the fired employee has INOPERABLE cancer. OOPS!!
It’s ironic, since the only time I ever shop at Wal-mart is to buy supplies to grow marijuana.
I just sent walmart an email asking for his reinstatement . I asked them to show they have compasion for the sick and dying. I have a medical condition that would qualify me for medical canibis. Only problem is my company would fire me as well. Until employers get on board with this others and myself will have to suffer , or be fired. I just watched the Union on netflix . A documentary on the business behind marijuana. It’s a must see. It talks about the big money in drug testing among other things. If I had the cash I would send a copy to every home in the U.S.
Walmart would not even fill my prescription for Marinol when it was a legal script.They “dont assosciate w/marijuana at all or marijuana related products”.What a bunch of losers.Yet they’ll sell crap that slave labor in crappy countries produce.Its time we all banded together and get cannabis legal once and for all.This is BS plain and simple.United we stand divided we fall.
does marinol work for you? I found it to be completely useless.
that is just wrong, but unfortunately its the world we live in…come in completely drunk from the night before and hungover, and its fine, but if you medicate on your own time, thats a problem….its really time to start ATTACKING alcohol…cigs…and promoting vaporizors…tinctures…edibles…
Marinol makes me paranoid like LSD did in the 70’s.Not only that but its impossible to swallow a pill whilest nauseas.I can take 3 hits off my pipe and quell a vomiting attack but Marinol won’t work at all.It is worthless but I use it to keep my Pain Doc happy and to help keep THC levels up in my bloodstream.
boycot walmart…if thay dont want to go by the michigan medical marijuana laws and the other 13 states to pass medical marijuana laws.then maybe thay should move ther stores out of thous states…botcott walmart
Normally, I’m a huge fan of Wal-Mart. On a day-to-day basis I think they get a bad rap. In general, they make life much more affordable–which is really important for low-income people but makes them an easy target for better-off who derides shopping in stores that are “cheap” or “low-class.” I’m not alone in my opinion. The Democratic economist Jason Furman has calculated how much Wal-Mart has done for poor people by single-handedly keeping inflation down and said, explicitly, that very few of the policies that he advocates can do as much good for poor people in their day-to-day lives. (Furman works for the Obama administration.)
All of this is just to say that I don’t bash Wal-Mart for its own sake.
And yet, this behavior is intolerable, inhumane, and indecent. I hope that the executives of Wal-Mart will realize that they is a public relations disaster for them, a failure of common sense, and a real black mark against their claim to be good corporate citizens.
They should understand that 80% of Americans are in favor of Medical Marijuana. Whatver you think about the broader issue of cannabis, we all believe that the USA should not be in the business of imprisoning, prosecuting, or discriminating against sick people.
Rehire Casias and apologize for your mistake, Wal-Mart. Only then will we, the regular Americans who shop at your store, regain our respect for you.
For anybody who so far hasn’t had enough reasons (and there are plenty) to avoid shopping at walmart like the plague, *this* should be the final nail in the coffin to NEVER EVER BUY ANYTHING THERE AGAIN!!!
And if you know people working or shipping there, do your best to convince them to look elsewhere!
**so aaaaangry!!!**
Once again WALMART KISS MY ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.change.org/actions/view/tell_wal-mart_to_stop_discriminating_against_sick_people
Fellas, a facebook friend started a facebook group for this!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&viewas=783375301&ref=mf&gid=364415799478
Rally the troops!
This is unbelievable. They sell the two most harmful and destructive drugs in the world based on lives lost, (alcohol and tobacco) not including the prescription drugs, yet they fire a man with cancer who has worked hard for them day and night because of the medicine he uses for his medical condition? They’re not “complying” with the law what so ever, because it’s medically legal for certain patients. Sounds like nothing but uncaring, inconsiderate scumbags in my opinion. I feel so sorry for that man because on top of everything he has endured, he gets fired for treating an incurable disease. Do they have no passion at all, no decency? All of us and I mean ALL of us need to get this story out there, we have to do something to get things changed or they never will.
Soon everyone will see. Anyone that opposes marijuana reform will just end up looking like a fool. A fool I tell you! ….as we all once were….but look at what walmart did. They fired a cancer patient for taking the safest medication in the world. FOOOOOOLS!!!!! hahah this will only give more and more fuel to the Anti marijuana prohibition movement. I just realized that would be AMPM…anyways let our rage be heard!!!! We have furry and a good reason to have it.
For a corporation that sells prescription drugs, which kill 200,000 Americans EVERY YEAR, to discriminate against this excellent employee is just inexcusable. He is LEGAL as far as the state is concerned, I think this guy has one hell of a lawsuit, and I hope the takes these bastards to the cleaners. It’s not bad enough that the guy is dying, and he foolishly chose to work for THEM, but now they have to fire him over his MEDICINE?
DO they test for ANY prescription drugs? What about prozac? Do they even look for that? People die from that stuff, and when they quit taking it, they have been known to kill others as well. Big pharma should be taken OUT of the equation, as they are nothing but drug pushers. They cure NOTHING, they just hook people on their pills and keep them on them for the rest of their lives,. making profits all the way along. When I was a kid, that was what they told us the problem with the illegal pushers was. But I’ve met more kind people who sold me a quarter over the years than I EVER met in ANY medical office, and I’m RELATED to medical people.
I haven’t spent a dime in a WM for at least a decade, ever since I became aware of what they have done to our economy and workforce. You might want to check out a Frontline episode on them and why they are responsible for so much of our economic woes. It’s not pretty, and it’s one of the many reasons I will NEVER darken their door again. So a boycott of them won’t affect me at all.
And as to the previous comment about how much good WM has done for poor people, I go back to Fiddler on the Roof. “God must truly love poor people, because he made so many of them”. Well, WM must LOVE poor people, too , because they made MILLIONS of them all by themselves, being responsible for the destruction of our retail manufacturing sector and the loss of American jobs and companies. For that reason alone, they should be kicked out of the country. They have shown that their only interest is in hoarding as much money as possible. People and human needs mean NOTHING to them. I will NEVER set foot in one again. EVER.
Just think — Wal-Mart now can spend an INFINITE amount of money promoting “family values” politicians — ie, politicians in the pocket of the mega-rich, such as the Walton family.
Are these people going to let up with their fascist grand guignol, or are they just begging for the inevitable guillotine?
Drug testing should be illegal for all but hazardous positions. It’s a violation of our Constitutional rights, regardless of what insurance companies say. Don’t submit to drug testing and join the ranks of the unemployed, just because you toked up. You didn’t steal, you didn’t murder anyone, but you as well face a life sentence of unemployment if you defend your rights. What a suckass policy.
letter sent to their evil coporate headquaters. Boycott on! Suggesting to ACLU lawyers to get off thier behinds and show up the unemployment office with lawyers to cost that evil corporation extra monies and shame.
There may be yet another brick to stack in this scandalous action by Walmart. Does this Walmart Pharmacy fill prescriptions for medicinal marijuana?
If so, the employee probably got this prescription filled at the store where he worked.
If, this be the case then this Walmart management has profited from his misery while making the decision to cut him lose and condemn him to further misery.
Welcome, to corporate America. Americans!
Message sent – boycott on.
Text of message follows;
This consumer will boycott all Wall Mart stores until the company
does the right thing for your employee Mr Joseph Casias, a cancer sufferer, and a legal recipient of medical marijuana.
You need to begin making exceptions to your employee policies to accommodate employees suffering from these dreadful diseases.
Have you no heart or compassion at all?
Walmart did not get my business prior to this story, and I will make damn sure they NEVER do after reading this. Chinese crap peddled by greedy fascists. No thanks.
Yeah its terrible. If you are stupid enough to work at Wal-Mart then you deserve what you get.
He will certainly get unemployment(even if Wal-Mart fights it), and should be more than able to pursue legal action in civil court.
The Voter Initiative is the last semblance of Democracy that we have left in this country.
In the universe of pharmacology is their no substitute for pot that would satisfy both the needs of the user and requirements of the employer? This pothead obviously placed his addiction ahead of his obligation to his family and employer and has paid the price.
…there are plenty of alternatives to medical cannabis. Unfortunately, most of them will kill you and or wish you were dead. Trolls like you should eat some opiate-based crap and go die a lonely death somewhere like a wal-mart parking lot. Seriously, you are a major fucktard.
#68 – Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. I fart in your general direction!
#68, You made a lot of enemies. The fired employee has cancer. You have a terminal case of stupidity.
Haven’t shopped WalMart for… let’s see… must be over 15 years! When I also ended my Sam’s Club membership. This is simply among the many evils of WalMart. Spread the word I guess.
Hey Scott unemployment in Michigan is around 20%. Any job is better than none.
Boycotting is only half of the needed action- WRITE TO WAL-MART AND TELL THEM WHY YOU ARE BOYCOTTING. Take a few minutes and write this draconian, heartless company please.
Just curious if WalMart would have fired the guy if doctor-prescribed pain-killers had been detected in his urine — or if they’re just anti-pot?
Thanks
I emailed my comments to Walmart
and will never shop there
The urine test for marijuana WILL NOT tell you if you are impared at the time of the test.The test checks for metabolites,which is a byproduct of the TCH in marijuana, that is produced in your body after smoking/consuming the harmless weed.The test will tell you if you have used pot within the last several weeks at best. Failure of a urine test IN NO WAY proves, that he was HIGH on the job. This is an outrage and an infringement on OUR personal freedoms!! Where is OUR DOMESTIC TRANQUILLITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I left my comment (complaint) with the ethics number… i had to convince the woman it was a discriminatory issue (disability) against one’s health. Do your part !!!!!
#68 can KISS MY ASS TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To start with, I have been a loyal customer for 34yrs. I can’t even explain the amount of childhood and adult memories I have had in a Walmart. Many I will never forget. I was good friends with Sam Walton’s brother-in-law and met Sam and his wife. So my loyalty has ran very deep.
Now the reason for my letter. This week I read about Joseph Casias 29 cancer patient from Michigan. All the stories around this makes me believe that Walmart not only don’t want medical marijuana patients to work there but don’t want their business either.
Now in the state of Colorado there will be over 100,000 medical marijuana patients by May of this year. I won’t be able to convince all of them, of course, but I will dedicate every second I have to boycott you and spread the word about what is really going on behind that smillie face in the comercials.
I am asking to please reconsider your policy on terminating the terminally ill people who helped get YOU were YOU are today. And until YOU do change your decision against Joseph Casias 29, SINUS CANCER PATIENT WHO HAS AN INOPERABLE BRAIN TUMOR, I will not be shopping at any of YOUR stores.
Thank You for your time and patients in this matter.
Ryan Rasmussen
Here is my letter to Walmart. Please everyone do the same!
this is only one example of that tops a mountain of others that truly need addressed.
I already don’t shop at WalMart for lots of reasons. However, calling for a boycott of a major corporation should be based on something more than unsubstantiated or undocumented claims of one person.
The reality is that people lie all the time over much lesser matters. How many phony fundraisers for dying children have recently been exposed as scams?
Has anyone seen a statement from a physician of the alleged five year old diagnosis of cancer and the prescription for marijuana?
My wife and I drove the 100+ miles from our home to join the 100+ people who showed up to the protest rally in front of the Battle Creek WalMart. It was difficult – pain wise – as we are both disabled. But, we were happy and honored to be there for this young man. Now, he needs a high-powered law firm like Geoffrey Fieger to take up his cause. Enough is enough. Joe is the reason why we have this law! What WalMart did to him amounts to simple murder as they are killing this poor young man by firing him and now challenging his unemployment benefits. Tomorrow I will begin my quest to find out EXACTLY who it was that fired him from that Battle Creek store. Stay tuned. This isn’t over…not by a long shot!
Has anyone checked on whether Wal-Mart, by firing this guy, violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, a federal law which is supposed to come down hard on businesses that discriminate based on disabilities? Someone, preferably an ADA attorney in Michigan, should really investigate whether firing someone because of taking legally prescribed medication for a DISABILITY (yes, cancer is a disability) is considered a violation of the ADA. If this is the case, I could see also a personal action against the manager that fired him for a violation of his constitutional rights to be free from discrimination based on his disability.
Wal-mart fired this employee because they do not want him on their group health insurance plan. Has everything to do with his medical bills and nothing to do with the medical marijuana. Its just an excuse. Same story with denying him unemployment, they are simply greedy.
Ask all your friends who have big medical bills, if they become strangely unemployable after that.
As a college student. I have just turned in an argumenative paper on the legalization of MM. I received a call from a family member who told me of this situation and I was really SHOCKED! This case is a rediculous one to say the least….are you friggin serious??? Walmart should be ashamed! I used to work in the MRDD field and cant imagine if MM was legal in Ohio, these individual to be denied of taking meds prescribed by their own physician in order to keep their employment! That shit is nuts and I cant wait to see what affects of this
“Can of worms” opened by Walmart has to say the least!….looks like its back to Kmart and Krogers everyone!!!….now to tell my daughter why we can no longer do our shopping at such a great dignified store!!!!!…..YEA RIGHT!!!! Cheers to the Cheifers….Power to the patients who have been prescribed this same medicaton and I hope this makes a Dramatic effect on society due to Mdical Marijuanas Legalization!!! Good luck Casias…The majority of US or the U.S.A stand behind you!!!
Sounds like he may also have a case of them not paying him overtime. A lot of not smart managers at WalMart.
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thanks for posting, i had alot to say but i said it in an email to walmart. it’s funny to think all the people that i have known that worked at walmart smoke pot and quit on there own, then you get someone who actually has a legally legitimate reason to use and gets fired…. bad walmart, but whats new.
WUCK FALMART
If Wall Mart has a policy that alloys for an employee to work while using a prescribed drug for a spesific ailment then I see a big problem for them. Lawyers, line up. Only in approved mmj states.
I will be boycotting walmart and getting as many people to do it as well…. we need to show them our numbers….. everyone boycott walmart!
OK, let me understand this. We cannot have single payer healthcare because “The government will tell you what doctor you can see! Do you want big government interfering in your healthcare?!”
But. It is OK when BigCorp interferes with your healthcare because–that is the American Way. Because we ARE a nanny state, as long as the nanny is a big corporation. Right.
Man, this is one screwed up country.
I did try to contact Walmart to convey my disgust at their amazing lack of concern abiout humanity in general and this chap in particular.
My phone number was REQUIRED which in itself is against the ADA laws because I am profoundly deaf and do not have a phone. I did point out to Walmart that that leaves them currently in violation of US law.
I went to print out a copy just for myself and the entire page and message I had filled in just flew away. Apparently they have hidden rules they don’t bother to mention and it’s either their way or the highway.
Dear God, let that chap who was using legal mj to help with his sinus cancer and a brain tumor soon find a job with a compassionate employer. Right now Walmart has made it very easy for me to just keep driving by their junky stuff and go to more ethical places to spend my few dollars.
YOU ALL ARE MISSING THE POINT!!!
The point is that Walmart is upset because they can-not YET control the sale of medical marijuana.
Until they can figure out a way to get the rights and do this cheaper than anyone else, they will never change their policies on this issue.
Unfortunately, this suffering gentleman/ex employee is caught in the back wash of big business.
You see, WalMart sets the pricing on their vendors products and not the other way around. In other words, this is how they are so successful in removing their competition.
Walmart has systematically gained strength world wide by undercutting competition and gaining consumer support. If a vendor does not submit to WalMart purchase pricing then WalMat boycotts that product or company by not carrying the items or products. Most vendors tuck their tails between their legs, give in or go broke and out of business because their product can not be sold on a global market at a low and appealing price to the masses of consumers.
These are very ingenius tatics by Walmart if you ask me.
BTW…my mother worked until see died of brain cancer for a northern Michigan Walmart. She was not on medical mj but, I did feel in the end she was just another employee chewed up and spit out of the corporate machine.
Many of corporations are going to these cut-throat tactics and have the attitude that if you want a paycheck then YOU must follow the rules and jump the hoops. Hey, there is a line of people waiting for your job, step out of the way if you don’t want it or are unwilling to conform to our needs. Very True I’m afraid to say.
We can all be mad and boycott Walmart but during our bad economic times very difficult to convince the world masses and ask them to stop saving $$ and shop elsewhere.
Nothing will change until a smarter person with a whole lot of capital comes along and out does WalMart. Hopefully this new company will be more sympathetic to their workers, but I doubt it.
Joseph Casias,
I am praying for you along with the others here and I do wish you well in all your struggles with your health and WalMart issues.
Keith
Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783
Holy Smokes. Shame on you Wal-Mart. Lackies of the State.
Rev.sLEEzy
TULCOTHS
RAMP
This should not come as any surprise as Wal-Mart is just another major corporation that does not respect anyone or anything, so why
would they care even care about their employees? Has anyone been to Wal-Mart recently? Are they just beating these people relentlessly in the break room? Their workers look miserable and this is one of the riches companies in the world. They should give their employees a joint before work just so they can get through another day of working in such a horrible environment. This employee should just grow marijuana and sell it and he will probably make 1,000 times as much as their cheap asses pay anyways. By the way, I’m sorry about your situation Joseph Casias and I hope peace is with you.
The ignorance in these comments amuses me and the quickness to jump on a bandwagon without learning both sides shocks me. Are the citizens of the United States really this dumb?
How about you wait for the truth to come out before making rash decisions and believing this to be a story of David versus evil Goliath?
Thank you, WalMart, for providing so many people with work, for giving the money from an associate’s death to the associate’s family (the people the associate chooses during benefits open enrollment), for partnering with Blue Cross to give associates quality insurance options, for providing annual raises when many companies put a freeze on raises, for hiring full-time associates when there is a need, for providing a family-like community of associates who pull together when disasters happen, for not being unionized and making associates pay union dues, and thank you for being consistent with all of your policies.
Don’t worry, WalMart. When the facts come out, the idiots shouting in outrage who do not have the whole story will shut up and most will come slinking back in to buy from you (if they haven’t already).
Judith you are an ignorant cunt. The guy was on prescribed medication like it or not marijuana has genuine health benefits to those with severe illnesses. Maybe you will be so lucky to get one someday and need the benefits of marijuana to give you an appetite and to relieve pain. Also Walmart has proven time and time again they are a bunch of dicks with their assinine policies. My uncle who just so happens to be a very bad diabetic was employed at Walmart, until last month he had a diabetic episode and need sugar before he fell out, so he goes just minutes before his scheduled break to the snack bar for juice and is fired because of it! I don’t know about Walmart but I would like for my employees that have such illnesses when they feel like something is wrong take care of themselves, or less I will be facing a lawsuit when one falls out on the job and gets hurt. But see Walmart doesn’t give a fuck, not about you the consumer and absolutely not all about you the employee. And no Judith I will not spend another dollar in that dump.
I wish I could get medical mj for my bipolar disorder. My employer, The Bank of New York Mellon fired me because of my disorder. I engaged in the same activities as my coworkers but was labeled a direct threat. What made this situation worse, BNY Mellon lied about the circumstances.
see my website that exposes the lies:
http://www.bnymellon-lies.com
Thats soo mean what walmart did. my family boycotted Walmart b4 this cuz they kick my mom out wen she had her nail salon in there and built some stupid money place and they already had on oh and im in Arizona not michigan but still
sounds like judith is a shitmart employee
Holy Smokes. Judy, Judy, Judy. I hope and pray no one in your family ever gets sick.
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F*ck Walmart! They do not care about people or society. That man should not be made into a point or a policy. He is sick. He is making himself feel better, without harming anyone else in the process. It’s natural, to boot! My father had a very rare form of brain cancer and I do believe that it would have helped his suffering tremendously, had it been legal.
I choose not to shop at WalMart for very many reasons, this will only add to it. People, do your small businesses and community some good, and buy local instead of big-chain. This is yet another reason why I don’t shop at WalMart.
Support people not big industry!
Judith does not know what she is talking about. I worked for Wal-Mart for almost 10 years at low pay and after I was injured/disabled was treated like dirt. I don’t know about the state of Michigan, but I was able to carry my medical insurance under the cobra act for 18 months after leaving Wal-Mart. I was
a stock holder and was 100% vested and lived off this money to pay the bills and have insurance. If I had not been disabled because of a racist store manager and his racist friends, I would have a large profit sharing account and about 250-300,000 in stocks by this time. But, I lost everything I had and saved because of they racism at Wal-mart and now President Obama says that people drawing social security disability and paying for medicare are getting welfare and entitlements. I can’t win. Plus, they would not let me draw my short term or long term disabilty
insurance that I paid for nearly ten years. Wal-Mart paints a pretty picture for the American people, but if you want to get the true picture read: “Grapes of Wrath” by Steinbeck or the expose of the slaughter house industries and you will get the real picture. I’ve been there and done that, Judith. Have you?
[...] join in a boycott of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., in order to protest the unjust and potentially unlawful firing of Joe Casias, a 29-year-old medical marijuana patient and sinus cancer survivor who suffers from an inoperable [...]
Judith can KISS MY ASS too!!!!!!!!!
Holy Smokes. Judy did you get the promotion to PIC on your shift?
The Rev.sLeezy
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Perfect!Great! This helped a lot! I’ve read a couple
rather confusing sites lately, this cleared up some confusion I had.
Target is going to get my money until you fix your mistake. How could you fire someone for taking their medication. Just wrong
I can’t believe how cruel and inhumane people are. It doesn’t surprise me because alomst all of their clothing comes from third world countries and they don’t even bother to check on them. they’re slaves
I actually think WalMart will win this, although I think it is absolutely ridiculous. I have done many presentations on WalMarts unethical acts so this doesnt surprise me, but I wish Joe Casias a painless life and a large sum of cash from WalMarts pockets.
Walmart says: “We believe our policy complies with the law.”
Then the law needs to be changed. Another reason for all patriotic Americans to work as hard as we can to keep conservatives from having control over our government, our laws and ourselves.
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