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Before the Colorado Supreme Court: Pot is legal, but can you still be fired for using it? [View all]
By SADIE GURMAN, Associated Press
DENVER (AP) — Pot may be legal in Colorado, but you can still be fired for using it.
Now, the state's highest court is considering whether workers' off-duty use of medical marijuana is protected under state law.
Colorado's Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case involving Brandon Coats, a quadriplegic medical marijuana patient who was fired by the Dish Network after failing a drug test in 2010.
Coats said he never got high at work. But pot's intoxicating chemical, THC, can stay in the system for weeks.
DENVER (AP) — Pot may be legal in Colorado, but you can still be fired for using it.
Now, the state's highest court is considering whether workers' off-duty use of medical marijuana is protected under state law.
Colorado's Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case involving Brandon Coats, a quadriplegic medical marijuana patient who was fired by the Dish Network after failing a drug test in 2010.
Coats said he never got high at work. But pot's intoxicating chemical, THC, can stay in the system for weeks.
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we only do drug testing if the employee is working on a specific account and my boss and i went around on this when the latest round of testing came up.
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