California Medical Marijuana

A new Assembly bill was introduced this week to help protect medical marijuana users jobs. The bill is designed to prohibit discrimination against marijuana patients who use their medicine away from the workplace. Now, by no means can a patient use marijuana while on the job but this will stop people from getting fired who use medical marijuana responsibly away from the workplace to help their ailments.

The bill is Co-authored by two Bay area assembly men, Marc Leno D-San Francisco and Loni Hancock D-Berkley, as well as Patty Berg D-Eureka and Lori Saldana D-San Diego. The reason this team gathered to write this bill is stemmed from a court case from last month. (more…)