MMJ User Sues for Wrongful Firing

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guitarabuser

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I hope he wins and a flood of others follow. Too many employers think the law doesn't apply to them and they screw the people that are hurting the most.

From FOX News:
Medical Marijuana User Sues After Being Fired
Monday, March 15, 2010
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GREAT FALLS, Mont. — A Great Falls man who says he was wrongly fired from his job for using medical marijuana has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against his former employer.
Mike Babbitt in a complaint filed earlier this month against Loaf-n-Jug says he was discriminated against, lost wages and suffered other monetary damages.
The company declined to comment.
Babbitt says he is HIV-positive and is qualified to received medical marijuana.
He says he told the company he received a medical marijuana card and the company told him it wasn't a problem.
But Babbitt says he was fired in November after a drug test from the previous month showed the presence of marijuana.
Babbitt's attorney says marijuana use falls under the company's definition of legal medication.
 
Confidential Herb

Confidential Herb

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I'm curious in this particular case. If he was fired unlawfully, well then someone is responsible. There is no doubt in my mind that some money is going to be rewarded to the patient (prosecution).

Hopefully this law suit shows the United States, medical marijuana laws, are no joke. I'm sick of the fact that you tell someone you are a marijuana patient, and all they do is look at you with first, disbelief, then the matter that they think you are abuser.

Cheers =-)
 
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