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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Feb. 16, 2008

Toking the Line

Employment Column - By D. Gregory Valenza - Medical-marijuana users might be able to legally use the drug, but employers aren't obligated to hire them.

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN

By D. Gregory Valenza
This article appears on Page 8.

      The California electorate approved Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act, in 1996. The initiative expressly protects certain users of marijuana for medical reasons from prosecution under two specific criminal laws. The initiative did not address a number of issues, however, including what happens when marijuana metabolites are revealed by a pre-emp...

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