The Maryland General Assembly gaveled out for the year last night, with three cannabis justice bills dying in committee – two employment protection bills and a parole/probation revocation bill.
“Can an employer punish someone for doing something that is constitutionally protected?”
That’s the question raised by a pair of articles in Colorado today that lay out the precarious work situation many medical marijuana patients find themselves in.
While the constitutional amendment that established medical marijuana in Colorado says that nothing “shall require any employer to accommodate the medical use of marijuana in any work place,” the state also has a “Lawful Off-Duty Activities Statute”…