All the headlines from our Cannabis Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 15 2011 // Oregon’s workers’ compensation insurers are begging the state’s medical marijuana outlets to cut them some slack on price, and warning that they may need federal assistance.“I never thought I would...
Jun 16 2011 // A Washington Supreme Court has ruled that it is OK for an employer to terminate an employee for violating its no drug policy, even though the employee is in compliance with the state’s medical marijuana law.According...
Jun 6 2011 // Medical marijuana dispensary owners face a variety of risks because of the controversy around the products they sell. Even when they are doing everything right in terms of following proper city ordinances and state...
Feb 21 2011 // Fifteen states and the District of Columbia currently have laws that approve medical marijuana as a medical treatment option, which has increasingly important implications in the workplace.Arizona voters recently passed...
Feb 16 2011 // Michigan law legalizing medical marijuana doesn’t stop private businesses from firing people for drug use, a federal judge said in dismissing a lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc.U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker...
Feb 8 2011 // Medical cannabis dispensaries, collectives, cooperatives, cultivators and caregivers operating within state guidelines have a new option to protect themselves. MMD Insurance Specialists now offers raid coverage for medical...
Nov 15 2010 // A federal judge on Friday heard arguments in the case of a medical marijuana user claiming a Michigan Wal-Mart store wrongfully fired him after testing positive for the drug.U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker in Grand...
Jul 2 2010 // A Michigan man has sued Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for firing him after he tested positive for medical marijuana he was using legally to treat pain from an inoperable brain tumor and sinus cancer.Joseph Casias, 30, said he was...
Mar 23 2010 // Monarch E&S Insurance Services has a new medical marijuana program available to California and Hawaii agents.This program for medical marijuana dispensaries is offering a package, property and general liability...
Oct 22 2009 // Oakland police say they’ve uncovered at least 1,000 marijuana plants after a fire in a warehouse.Fire officials say it took crews about 10 minutes to get the fire under control in the one-story warehouse in East...
Sep 21 2009 // Ever since the Obama Administration said it would not pursue medical marijuana dispensaries, the number of such businesses has exploded in California.Now, a few insurance agents are catering to them. Medical marijuana...
Sep 14 2009 // Ever since President Barak Obama came into office and his attorney general said the administration would not pursue medical marijuana dispensaries, the number of such businesses has exploded.Now, a few insurance agents are...
Mar 26 2008 // New York’s new governor, who disclosed last week that he and his wife both committed adultery several years ago, said that he used cocaine in his 20s and smoked marijuana when he was younger.In reference to cocaine,...
Feb 10 2008 // Remaining Confident“We remain confident that there will be a day when medical marijuana patients are not discriminated against in the workplace.” —Safe Access attorney Joe Elford, reacting to a decision by...
Jan 28 2008 // Employers can fire workers found to have used medical marijuana even if it was legally prescribed, the California Supreme Court ruled last Thursday, dealing the state another setback in its standoff with U.S. law...
Jul 23 2007 // The co-worker and the shop foreman testified that McIntosh didn’t appear to be impaired by marijuana use before the accident.Tenn. court: marijuana not a factor in worker’s injury The Tennessee Supreme Court...
Jul 9 2007 // The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a worker whose hand was crushed by machinery at his workplace was not to blame for the accident despite his admitted marijuana use off the job.Billy McIntosh was injured in 2004...
Aug 1 2001 // According to an AP Online report, insurers are paying out claims to a growing number of medical marijuana users whose backyard pot plants were stolen by thieves or confiscated by police. The payouts are not based on the...