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Health Care & Hospital Law,
Government

Dec. 29, 2022

Better late than never

California extends employment protection To medical and recreational cannabis consumers.

Sarah A. K. Blitz

Associate
Sheppard Mullin

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Despite California's legalization of cannabis for medical purposes in 1996, and adult recreational use in 2016, cannabis users lacked employment protections for off-duty and off-site cannabis use until the passage and signing of Assembly Bill 2188 earlier this fall. The previously uneasy state of affairs in the Golden State was the result of: (1) neither of the propositions legalizing cannabis addressing employment protections, and (2) a California Supreme Court ruli...

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