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Client Briefing – Seeing Through the Legal Haze: Legalization of Marijuana and Its Impact on the Workplace

By Stanley Jutkowitz on April 3, 2016
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With 24 states and the District of Columbia currently having legalized medical and/or recreational use of marijuana, there are now tens of thousands of card-carrying marijuana users in the workforce. While these new marijuana legalization laws come as a welcome relief to those seeking to benefit from the drug’s therapeutic benefits, they also have the potential to create a legal hangover for employers who now have to navigate the array of new rights and obligations.

Join Seyfarth Shaw on April 20, 2016 in the D.C. office to discuss how these new legalization laws interact with existing federal employment laws such as the ADA and FMLA, as well as various state anti-discrimination and off-duty conduct laws.

To register, click here.

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Stanley Jutkowitz is the editor for The Blunt Truth®, as well as a Corporate senior counsel in the Washington, DC office and chair of Seyfarth’s Cannabis Law practice group. Stan was named a 2020 “Trailblazer” for Cannabis Law by the National Law Journal.

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