Marijuana Laws, A Conflict of Laws to the Extreme

Reviewed here.

This is an article written by a lawyer benefiting from this conflict, providing compliance services.

Basically:

1) Conflict between states with varying amounts of legalization and the continued prohibition at the federal level (Control Substances Act of 1970);

2) drug testing laws, and on the job and off the job use;

3) accommodations required by the disabling condition requiring medical marijuana use;

4) absence of case law, and unclear legal rights of employees;

5) conflicting laws and regulations faced by employers with multi-state locations.