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T
hink you can sue your employer for not hiring you because you tested positive for cannabis? Think again. The Third Circuit just made it clear that New Jersey’s recreational marijuana law does not provide job applicants with a private cause of acti
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n. The plaintiff, who applied for a job with a major retailer only to have his offer rescinded after failing a drug screen, argued that the rescinding of his job offer violated the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act, also known as the CREAMMA. The CREAMMA prohibits employers from refusing to hire someone based on