Seeing Through the Smoke: Drafting New Jersey Drug Use Policies in the Age of Medical Marijuana Laws

Join Attorney Tracey Diamond as she discusses how legalizing marijuana for medical use in New Jersey for individuals suffering from cancer, acquired immune deficiency syndrome and other debilitating life-threatening illnesses. Ms. Diamond will discuss how the NJ Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act is designed to protect patient users and their physicians who recommend medical marijuana from arrest and prosecution. Ms. Diamond goes through the body of case law from other states that permit medical marijuana use and addresses which federal laws might affect employers.  Ms. Diamond concludes the presentation by going through a series of relevant hypotheticals that address what employers should do when dealing with employees who use medical marijuana. This is a timely presentation for any employer or employee. 

Agenda:

I.    NJ Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act

II.   Other NJ statutes that may be implicated

III.  Precedent from other states

IV.  Effects of federal law

V.   Best practices

VI.  Drug and alcohol testing

VII. Hypotheticals or employee