Protecting Legal Cannabis Users From Irrational Employment Discrimination
February 8, 2026
Bills would prohibit employers from refusing to hire, terminating, or penalizing based solely on a cannabis-positive test
Bills would prohibit employers from refusing to hire, terminating, or penalizing based solely on a cannabis-positive test
The federal government has asserted that the 1968 prohibition on firearm possession by an “unlawful user” of a federally controlled substance should be applied broadly
“The Treasurer continues to waste taxpayer dollars by filing an unreasonable appeal … and has now delayed Chair Shannon O’Brien’s return to the CCC.”
Unlike alcohol, THC use doesn’t have an established and roundly accepted threshold
Hemp businesses have sued the state, alleging the law effectively criminalizes hemp despite it being legal at the federal level
One new law allows people to apply to get their criminal histories for now-legal marijuana crimes sealed
Tuesday has been a long time coming — 57% of Ohioans voted to legalize recreational marijuana in November but there has been nowhere to legally purchase it. Until now.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals urged the Legislature to change the law to allow pregnant medical marijuana card holders to be prosecuted for child neglect.
“We can get smaller businesses credits, we can make it easier for them to do business and to compete.”
It was one of more than 800 appeals filed after the state imposed caps on the number of marijuana business licenses it would award.
