Iowa medical cannabis patients already face enough problems in their daily lives, but now, they may have to face them while unemployed. Quad City Times Capitol Digest has the details:
WORKPLACE MARIJUANA RESTRICTIONS: Senate Republicans advanced a proposal that would state an employer’s right to regulate marijuana use by its employees.
The proposal passed the Senate Commerce Committee over objections from Democrats who said the law could be used to target workers who also are in the state’s medical cannabis program.
“I think that workplaces today are each able to establish what their drug testing priorities are (already),” said Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City. “What this bill does do, unfortunately, is it targets legal medical cannabis patients in Iowa. … An employer can fire them; it can basically create rules not allowing them access to what essentially is a legal product in Iowa. It discriminates against them.”
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