Legal marijuana: Colorado

July 16, 2014
robomayor
Colorado, Policy & Legal
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Now that marijuana use in Colorado is legal both medicinally and recreationally, what are employers to do about it? How legal is marijuana when it comes to employment law?

“I look at it as, (Colorado is) a petri dish,” employment law attorney Julie Pate-Gurule told a group of businesspeople gathered at a Longmont Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast Wednesday. “We don’t know what’s going to come out of this. … The spotlight of the country is on us.”

The medical use of marijuana has been legal for far longer than recreational pot use, which became legal in the state Jan. 1. Though medical marijuana had been around since 2000, it wasn’t until 2010 that the Colorado Legislature passed laws governing that industry.

Last year, a governor-appointed task force put regulations into effect to manage the recreational pot market.. [Read More…]

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