Colorado Supreme Court to review pot workplace law

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Colorado Supreme Court to review pot workplace law

DENVER — Pot may be legal in Colorado, but you can still be fired for using it. Now Colorado’s Supreme Court has agreed to review a marijuana-related firing in a case that could have big implications for the state’s pot smokers.


The court agreed Monday to review the case of Brandon Coats, a quadriplegic medical-marijuana patient who was fired from his job at Dish Network in 2010 after failing a drug test. The company didn’t allege Coats was ever impaired on the job.

Dish Network argued medical marijuana use isn’t a “lawful activity” covered by a law intended to protect cigarette smokers from being fired for legal behavior off the clock. A Colorado appeals court agreed last year.

A Supreme Court hearing date hasn’t been scheduled.

- See more at: http://www.chieftain.com/special/ma...rt-colorado-agreed-fired#sthash.Df34xHC3.dpuf
 
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a day when employees cant be fired for there drug use out side of work would be a beautiful thing.

"quadriplegic medical-marijuana patient who was fired from his job at Dish Network in 2010 after failing a drug test. The company didn’t allege Coats was ever impaired on the job."
seems pretty fucked up and unjust to me. Im interested to see where this case goes, who knows when it will actually happen.
 
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