CO supreme court to hear medical pot/employee case

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www.seattlepi.com/news/medical/article/Colorado-high-court-considers-pot-firing-case-5789629.php

Now here is a man- who qualifies for SS disability that was working for years and yet gets thrown under the bus because of these ridiculous laws and policies.  Hope they side with the man- enough of employers regulating what people do off the clock.

     Brandon Coats, a quadriplegic medical marijuana patient who was fired by the Dish Network after failing a drug test more than four years ago, says he still can't find steady work because employers are wary of his off-duty smoking

     Coats, 35, was paralyzed in a car crash as a teenager and has been a medical marijuana patient since 2009, when, after a doctor's urging, he discovered that pot helped calm violent muscle spasms that were making it difficult to work.

     Coats, who worked for three years as a telephone operator with Dish, failed a random drug test in 2010 and was fired. He said he told his supervisors in advance that he probably would fail the test.

     Dish said in court filings that Colorado companies would be forced to retain employees in spite of "marijuana-induced performance problems," and the company would risk losing federal contracts if the Supreme Court sides with Coats.

Because companies can't fire people for performance problems I guess

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That's such a shame. The poor guy! I sure would like to see everyone get on the same damned page with this. There's no excuse for this man, and others like him, to have to go through things like this because the governments (state and federal) can't get their acts together.

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It needs to be reclassified federally.  Guess who is actively fighting against that and of course is getting billions for enforcement.