Court: Employers can fire people using medical marijuana
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- Court: Employers can fire people using medical marijuana
- Cop busts misinformed marijuana smokers
- Hemp, coconut and bamboo may outfit your next car
- … marijuana plants taken (for tokin’?) | creek, marijuana,…
- Marijuana withdrawal as bad as withdrawal from cigarettes
- Better processes dispel uncertainties of hemp
Court: Employers can fire people using medical marijuana
USA Today – Jan 24, 2008
The high court upheld a small Sacramento telecommunications company’s firing of a man who flunked a company-ordered drug test. Gary Ross held a medical marijuana card authorizing him to use the drug to treat a back injury sustained while serving in the Air Force. The company, Ragingwire, argued that it rightfully fired Ross because all marijuana use is illegal under federal law, which does not recognize the medical marijuana laws in California and 11 other states. “No state law could completely legalize marijuana for medical purposes because the drug remains illegal under federal law,” Justice Kathryn Werdegar wrote for the 5-2 majority. Further, the state Supreme Court said the so-called Compassionate Use Act passed by California voters in 1996 had nothing to do with employment laws. “Nothing in the text or history of the Compassionate Use Act suggests the voters intended the measure to address the respective rights and duties of employers and employees,” Werdegar wrote… Gary Ross held a medical marijuana card authorizing him to use the drug to treat a back injury sustained while serving in the Air Force. The company, Ragingwire, argued that it rightfully fired Ross because all marijuana use is illegal under federal law, which does not recognize the medical marijuana laws in California and 11 other states. “No state law could completely legalize marijuana for medical purposes because the drug remains illegal under federal law,” Justice Kathryn Werdegar wrote for the 5-2 majority. Further, the state Supreme Court said the so-called Compassionate Use Act passed by California voters in 1996 had nothing to do with employment laws. “Nothing in the text or history of the Compassionate Use Act suggests the voters intended the measure to address the respective rights and duties of employers and employees,” Werdegar wrote. “Under California law, an employer may require preemployment drug tests and take illegal drug use into consideration in making employment decisions.
Cop busts misinformed marijuana smokers
Seattle Times – Jan 24, 2008
Initiative 75, which was approved by almost 59 percent of voters in 2003, requires Seattle law-enforcement officials to make marijuana offenses their lowest priority if the marijuana is intended for adult personal use. But the initiative did not legalize marijuana, and possession of the controlled substance remains a crime. A Seattle police officer on patrol downtown first noticed the men when the driver of the vehicle entered a crosswalk on 4th Avenue and Pike Street before stopping for a red light Tuesday evening. According to a police report, the officer followed the car and noted that the driver braked erratically and unnecessarily and slowed down for green lights. When the men saw his cruiser, he wrote in a report, they opened their windows one by one as if “to air out the vehicle.
Hemp, coconut and bamboo may outfit your next car
Globe and Mail – Jan 24, 2008
write(lugAC);} placeAC(“lug”); INTERIORS Hemp, coconut and bamboo may outfit your next car MARCEL MICHELSON Reuters News Agency January 24, 2008 DETROIT — Natural fibres derived from hemp, coconut, bamboo or kenaf could be used in car interiors to get away from the "plastic feeling" of many cars on the road. "What is going to be key for cars is the way the interior feels, smells, sounds and looks like," said Philippe Aumont, the product planning vice-president at French car parts group Faurecia. He said statistics in Europe showed most people buy their cars without a test drive. "So the time they spend in the showroom is very important – the click of a button, the touch of the dashboard, the feel of the steering wheel, the sound of closing the glove compartment," he said recently on the sidelines of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit… But what is not used from the crop – like the core of a corn cob -can be used for its fibre," he said. Kenaf, for instance, can be used in dashboards, and bamboo fibres can strengthen seats. Coconut is used in the "shell" of the car interior and hemp in the lining of doors. car makers were looking to European suppliers like Faurecia to deliver the premium interiors of their German rivals. Faurecia, which provides materials used in the Audi A4, Mini Clubman and BMW X6, also worked with Cadillac on the CTS and does the instrument panel and seats of the 2008 North American Car of the Year Award winner, the Chevrolet Malibu.
… marijuana plants taken (for tokin’?) | creek, marijuana,…
Colorado Springs Gazette – Jan 24, 2008
Such a report could lead to bigger problems than a missing stash. Marijuana, however, was listed among stolen items reported Wednesday to Colorado Springs police. Marijuana apparently was the main motive for a burglary Wednesday evening in the 4800 block of Gatewood Drive in southeast Colorado Springs, according to a police report. When officers arrived, they learned eight marijuana plants had been taken. The owner, it turned out, had a license to grow the marijuana for medicinal purposes. Witnesses reported seeing two people, including one who was “seen leaving the residence carrying what appeared to be a large plant… Such a report could lead to bigger problems than a missing stash. Marijuana, however, was listed among stolen items reported Wednesday to Colorado Springs police. Marijuana apparently was the main motive for a burglary Wednesday evening in the 4800 block of Gatewood Drive in southeast Colorado Springs, according to a police report. When officers arrived, they learned eight marijuana plants had been taken. The owner, it turned out, had a license to grow the marijuana for medicinal purposes. Witnesses reported seeing two people, including one who was “seen leaving the residence carrying what appeared to be a large plant. ” No arrests have been made.
Marijuana withdrawal as bad as withdrawal from cigarettes
PhysOrg.com – Jan 24, 2008
Admissions in substance abuse treatment facilities in which marijuana was the primary problem substance have more than doubled since the early 1990s and now rank similar to cocaine and heroin with respect to total number of yearly treatment episodes in the United States, says Vandrey. He points out that a lack of data, until recently, has led to cannabis withdrawal symptoms not being characterized or included in medical reference literature such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, (DSM-IV) or the International Classification of Diseases, 10th edition (ICD-10). Since the drafting of the DSM-IV in 1994, an increasing number of studies have surfaced suggesting that cannabis has significant withdrawal symptoms. What makes Vandrey