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urns out a medical marijuana card can’t cure everything—especially if what you’ve got is a bad case of ADA expectations. Here’s a lesson in what happens when federal law refuses to roll
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times. TL;DR: A Pennsylvania federal court just held that legally using medical marijuana under state law doesn’t protect an employee under the ADA. Because marijuana remains illegal under federal law, the ADA’s protections didn’t apply—and the worker’s disability discrimination and failure-to-
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commodate claims were dismissed. ‘Just So You Know, I’m Going to Te
st Positive’: The Preemptive Confession A steelworker got into a workplace altercation and, as a