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Press Release: MPP Calls for National Boycott of Wal-Mart
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MARCH 16, 2010
MPP Calls for National Boycott of Wal-Mart
Corporation Fired a Michigan Patient For Using Medical Marijuana Under State Law With a Doctorâs Recommendation
CONTACT: Mike Meno, MPP assistant director of communications â¦â¦ 202-905-2030 or [email protected]
WASHINGTON, D.C. â Today, the nationâs largest marijuana policy reform organization called upon shoppers across the country to boycott Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., in order to protest the unjust and potentially unlawful firing of Joseph Casias, a 29-year-old medical marijuana patient and sinus cancer survivor who suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. Casiasâs cancer is in remission, and marijuana alleviates his pain that resulted from it. The Marijuana Policy Project is asking shoppers to demand that Wal-Mart abandon its discriminatory policy of firing employees who are legal medical marijuana patients under state law.
        After dutifully working at a Wal-Mart in Battle Creek, Michigan, for five years, Casias was suddenly terminated because he tested positive for marijuana during a drug screening administered after he sprained his knee on the job. Casias, who was named store Associate of the Year in 2008, is a registered medical marijuana patient in Michigan, where it is legal to use medical marijuana with a doctorâs recommendation.
        âItâs despicable that Wal-Mart would fire such a hardworking and seriously ill employee simply for treating his symptoms with a medicine that he is authorized to use under state law,â said Karen OâKeefe, director of state policies for the Marijuana Policy Project and lead drafter of Michiganâs medical marijuana law. âWould Wal-Mart also fire someone for taking doctor-prescribed Percocet, or any of the other legal medications sold in many of Wal-Martâs own stores?â Â
        Casiasâs firing violates the âMichigan Medical Marihuana Act,â which reads in part that a qualifying patient shall not be âdenied any right or privilege, including but not limited to ⦠disciplinary action by a business or occupational or professional licensing board or bureau, for the medical use of marihuana.â Under the law, the definition of âmedical useâ contains âinternal possessionââ having marijuana in oneâs system. The law does not require employers to allow the âingestion of marihuana in any workplaceâ or employees to work while under the influence, but there is no allegation that Casias used marijuana at work or worked while impaired. To add further insult to injury, Wal-Mart is contesting Casiasâs eligibility for unemployment.
        With more than 124,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Marijuana Policy Project is the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United States. For more information, please visit www.mpp.org.
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Stop Wal-Mart from discriminating against medical marijuana patients!
Dear friends:
Joseph Casias, a medical marijuana patient and cancer survivor in Michigan, has been fired by Wal-Mart simply for following his doctor's recommendation and trying to ease his pain.
Just 29 years old, Joe has already survived sinus cancer and now suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. He's spent the last five years working at a Wal-Mart in Battle Creek, Michigan and was honored as the store's Associate of the Year in 2008. Joe also happens to be a legal medical marijuana patient, registered with the state of Michigan. After a recent workplace injury, Joe was given a drug screen â which he failed because of his medical marijuana use.
Rather than having compassion and understanding for a model employee who was following the law, Wal-Mart fired Joe and has recently contested his unemployment benefits.
Will you help us send a message to Wal-Mart that punishing medical marijuana patients who are trying to get better, following their doctorâs advice, and adhering to state law is cruel and unacceptable?
MPP is calling on our members to boycott Wal-Mart until it abandons its discriminatory policy of firing employees who are legal medical marijuana patients under state law. Please help us send a message to Wal-Mart CEO Michael Duke that you don't support Wal-Martâs policy and won't be shopping there until itâs changed.
Check out this video of local activists in Michigan protesting Wal-Martâs actions. Together, we can let Wal-Mart and other businesses know that discrimination against medical marijuana patients will not go unchallenged.
Sincerely,
Karen O'KeefeDirector of State Policies
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
Walmart fires medical marijuana patient for taking his legally prescribed medicine, boycott being organized.
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