Medical Marijuana Employment Rights Bill Passes California Legislature

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

A medical marijuana employment rights bill, which would protect hundreds of thousands of medical marijuana patients in California from employment discrimination, passed the State Senate today. AB2279 had already passed the State Assembly in May, which means the bill now heads to the Governor's desk. Advocates expect the bill to reach Schwarzenegger's desk in the next few weeks.

AB2279, introduced in February by Assemblymember Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and co-authored by Assemblymembers Patty Berg (D-Eureka), Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) and Lori Saldaña (D-San Diego), reverses a January California Supreme Court decision in the case Ross v. RagingWire. Support for the bill has been widespread, coming from labor, business, and health groups at the local and national level.

"Now that both houses of the California legislature have voted in favor of employment rights for medical marijuana patients, the onus is on Governor Schwarzenegger to do the right thing," said Joe Elford, Chief Counsel with Americans for Safe Access, the medical marijuana advocacy group that argued the case before the Court and a sponsor of the bill. "The Governor has a chance to include medical marijuana patients as productive members of society, thereby protecting the jobs of thousands of Californians with serious illnesses such as cancer and HIV/AIDS."

http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5559

[Cleita]

1. I wonder if he will veto it? That would be the height of hypocrisy because

it's well know that Arnold not only smoked but inhaled at one time. He even bragged about it at one time.

[Taverner]

3. He will sign it quietly and without fanfare

He knows how to survive

[FatDave]

5. He smoked it on film.

I think it's in Pumping Iron.

[pleah]

2. K&R Let us hope that the Gov. does the right thing.

:smoke:

[Gregorian]

4. Well he's smoking one right here-

But he's also a republican.

http://www.searchbling.net/?c=90&q=Schwarzenegger

[ransackeld]

6. Kalifornia

Please let Arnold do SOMETHING important while in office,
instead of wasting time. He is a class A time waster which I
first discovered after I saw one of his movies and realized
how much of a damn waste of time it was!!
People in CA need medicine that works! Instead of the shit
that pharmaceutical companies keep shoving down everyones
throats....and chemo therepy...? It's a dangerous bad
alternative...THC is at the least a safe way to cope with
stress and severe pain associated with chronic and terminal
disease. I am proud to live in CA where people can use a drug
the government can't control and therefore must criminalize to
benefit their own selfish greed. And to the people who really
depend on THC, thankfully they will be able to get any job
they want aside from needed THC to survive.