{"id":4894,"date":"2011-05-22T02:12:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T09:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4894"},"modified":"2011-05-22T02:12:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T09:12:11","slug":"man-fired-for-medical-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/man-fired-for-medical-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Fired for Medical Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coors has fired Paul Curry because he tested positive for marijuana.  That\u2019s not surprising, because he has a medical marijuana permit to use it.  While Coors claims that it\u2019s about safety, the political background of the Coors family leads one to suspect that\u2019s not true.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"22Coors\"Paul Curry is out of work. His unemployment claim hasn\u2019t yet been ruled on. At least he still has his medical marijuana\u2013of course that\u2019s why MillerCoors fired him.<\/p>\n

According to his attorney, Rob Corry, he uses medical marijuana because of two separate conditions. He has nausea as a result of hepatitis C and he has severe back pain because of an injury he suffered while at work\u2013at MillerCoors.<\/p>\n

Corry said that when Curry was involved in a minor non-injury accident<\/strong> at work a few months ago, he was tested for marijuana and the test came up positive.<\/p>\n

Corry says his client will probably sue MillerCoors for discrimination. The constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana in Colorado states that employers do not have to make any accommodations to the use of medical marijuana while at work but is silent on the subject of use outside of work, according to Corry.<\/p>\n

Corry says, however, that it is illegal to discriminate against an employee because of a disability. \u201cThis is a clear case of discrimination on the basis of a disability,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

He says Curry had a good employment record with the company, where he had worked for seven years<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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When I lived in Denver, I knew a member of the Coors family.  She seemed to have no difficulty reconciling extreme Republican religious right views, that consider alcohol consumption the gateway to hell, with owing and being super-rich from a brewery.  They were Republican stalwarts, and according to Wikipedia<\/a>, they are members of the American Enterprise Institute, an extreme Neocon organization responsible for the Iraq war, and they provided the money to found the Heritage Foundation, the hateful people that wrote Paul Ryan\u2019s budget.<\/font><\/p>\n

Given these traits, I would strongly suggest that the human rights aspect of this case is valid.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coors has fired Paul Curry because he tested positive for marijuana.  That\u2019s not surprising, because he has a medical marijuana permit to use it.  While Coors claims that it\u2019s about safety, the political background of the Coors family leads one to suspect that\u2019s not true. Paul Curry is out of work. His unemployment claim hasn\u2019t […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}