Pros And Cons Of Marijuana Legalization

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Ever since, marijuana has been legalized in various states so many issues has been raised such as likes and dislikes, hiring and firing, smell and smell free, smoke and smoke free between smokers and non-smokers, employee and employers, even in some states it has become a big issue and a big battle has been fought between employee and employer in the court of justice. Even though all the courts of justice, whether it be a local court or trial court or Supreme Court of state all judgment have been favored to the employer because of the company policies which is a legal right of employer to set it for company itself. For instance, a law suit has been filed against the company called “Dish Network” by Mr. Coates.
Even though Mr. Coates, has a …show more content…

Thus, some states permitted and most of them not and some of them are considering whether or not to make their state a marijuana free state and at the same time they are monitoring the pros and cons of its legalization and an impact on local population and the state economy and pot head versus not pot head and also at the same time they are focusing on legal issues as it can be seen in those states where marijuana has been legalized and employers has been challenged in the court of justice. Which is a stressful as well as costing time and money also losing the market value and reputation in the society for those company or employers who have been challenged and faced several allegations; regardless of their winning or losing the case in the court, one thing for sure that they lost time and money and reputation in the society and stressful days until case has been settled and some states also in favor of plaintiff bit due to its contradictory they did not make the decision for the plaintiff but had the hard words for employer. A classic example can be seen which took place in …show more content…

Noffsinger filed a lawsuit against SSC Niantic Operating Company LLC. In the lawsuit he said company doesn’t protect patients and allows patient to use marijuana or cannabis legally as a medicine use and at the same time “Bride Brook Nursing” and rehabilitation centre also urged that the federal Schedule-I classification of cannabis under the control substance Act provides a legal basis for its decision to rescind a job offer after a prospective employee failed a drug test, but justice Jeffrey Alker Meyer (judge of federal district court) he disagreed and prospected that the plaintiff which uses marijuana for medical purpose under the state law should have right to continue his employment and should not be discriminated. Though it’s a contradiction with the federal and compliance with the state in a certain medical condition which rehabilitant to the patient and making him/her as a normal person by using marijuana.
There is an another case took place at the same state of Connecticut of Katielin Noffsinger who suffered a lot from post traumatic stress disorder who started taking THC capsule with recommendation by her doctor and takes every night that help her sleep, now the case is before she hired and when drug test is scheduled for her she already informed to the employer that she is a patient and has a physical authorized to marijuana or cannabis use as a

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