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Employers can fire workers for using medical marijuana, California Supreme Court Rules

January 24, 2008 By USC Gould School of Law
From the University of Southern California Law News Service
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0071
Contact: Gilien Silsby at (213) 740-9690 or (213) 500-8673

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Employers can fire workers for using medical marijuana, California Supreme Court Rules

USC legal experts available

NOEL RAGSDALE, professor of employment law, can discuss the California Supreme Court’s ruling that employers can fire workers for using medical marijuana. She can discuss what impact the ruling might have on employees who hold medical marijuana cards and how the ruling may impact employers. She can talk about the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that state medicinal marijuana laws don't protect users from prosecution. Ragsdale can be reached at (213) 740-2530.

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