Local Man's Firing for Medical Pot Goes to State's High Court

Local Man's Firing for Medical Pot Goes to State's High Court

California's medical marijuana law faces a critical test Tuesday morning. The state Supreme Court will decide if an employee can be fired for off-duty marijuana use.

Gary Ross, 45, was fired from his job at a network server center in Sacramento in 2001 just a week after being hired.

The employer, RagingWire, discovered Ross used marijuana to treat an old back injury. In a statement to News10, RagingWire defended the firing because Ross knew he could be called in to work at any time.

But Ross believed he was the victim of discrimination because of the type of medication he was using and hired an attorney to try to get his job back.

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drugs work. If you are in pain, you don't get high, you get relief.

I take Adderall for ADD, and I don't get high from it. I don't start speeding around, in some way, I wish I could..........think of all that I could get done. What it does is what it is supposed to do, help me concentrate. When the dosage was increased, I had to cut it back because I was getting a little OCD on some of the things that I was doing. Now that was scary.

This is what people who don't take "abused" drugs don't realize. If someone takes 50 mg to get high, the same dosage to a person in pain, may not even take the edge off. People in pain just want the pain to stop, that's enough of a high.

zalinda