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Home 🌿 Marijuana Business News 🌿 NY: Disconnect in Laws Will Create Medical Marijuana Predicament at Work 🌿NY: Disconnect in Laws Will Create Medical Marijuana Predicament at Work
When New York's new medical marijuana program takes effect next year, employers in this state will find themselves caught between federal and state law.
The state law, signed by Gov. Cuomo in July 2014, will authorize certified patients to receive medical marijuana to treat a select group of serious illnesses. Federal law, however, still considers any form of marijuana illegal.
For this very reason, employers in several other states have fired workers for breaking their drug-free policies with medical marijuana. This summer, the Colorado Supreme Court upheld Dish Network's decision to fire a quadriplegic who used the drug to treat severe muscle spasms.
Matt Miller, a partner at the Rupp Baase law firm in Buffalo, said this disconnect between federal and state law will inevitably create the same scenarios in New York.
"You can imagine, there's a situation where an employee in New York -- who has been...
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