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Staying Safe While Delivering Weed in the Pandemic

Legal and illegal cannabis sales have spiked, even though doctors warn that smoking and vaping worsen symptoms and spread. These businesses face a new problem: keeping employees safe. While millions of Americans are at home, socially distancing to curb the…

Managing People in the Growing Cannabis Industry

Being a chief people officer in the budding cannabis industry comes with unique challenges for Cresco's Angie Demchenko. Angie Demchenko has an eye for business and a mind for people, and this mindset is immediately reflected in the environment of…

Federal Illegality Be Damned – Employer Compulsory Reimbursement For Employee-Workers’ Compensation Medical Marijuana Use

In Hager v. M & K Construction, 2020 WL 21890 (App. Div. Jan. 13, 2020), the New Jersey Appellate Division issued the second of its recent, pro-employee, medical marijuana decisions, the other being Wild v. Carriage Funeral Holdings, Inc., 458 N.J. Super.…

Medical Marijuana Employee Protection Act: What the Future Could Hold for Florida

January 30, 2020
Leonard Dietzen
Florida, HR and Staffing, Policy & Legal
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With the passing of the 2016 constitutional amendment and the Legislature’s enacting of statutes implementing the voters’ will, hundreds of thousands of Floridians have become lawful medical marijuana users.[1] By and large, Florida employers were not impacted by the legalization…

Workers at the Cresco Labs marijuana grow facility in Joliet vote to unionize

Workers at the Cresco Labs marijuana grow facility in Joliet voted Tuesday to unionize, two weeks after recreational weed sales started in Illinois. Workers at the facility voted 58 to 32 to be represented by the United Food & Commercial…

Major pot production facility to vote on unionizing

About 100 workers at Cresco Labs in Joliet are eligible to vote today in an early test pro-labor provisions in Illinois' weed law. Will other pot employees follow? Count organized labor among those who see opportunity in the recreational weed…

What the Cannabis Industry Can Learn from 2019

January 13, 2020
Maureen Ryan
Banking, Finance & Real Estate, HR and Staffing, Op-Ed
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For anyone outside our industry who was paying close attention toward the end of 2019, the news about layoffs at several cannabis companies may have seemed overly dire. Multiple companies reported a pulling back of their workforce including CannaCroft, Flow…

Marijuana in the workplace

As cannabis acceptance grows state by state, so do employers’ uncertainty about what is legal and what is not. January 2020 marks six years of adult-use marijuana legalization in Colorado. And though the state was an outlier on this issue…

A Win for Cannabis Industry Workers

On September 20, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled in Robert Kenney v. Helix TCS, Inc. that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA) applies to workers in the cannabis industry. This is a significant ruling…

Impaired by Marijuana or Not Impaired … That Is The Question

A new reality is taking over. Medical marijuana is now legal in 33 states and the District of Columbia, and recreational marijuana is legal in 11 states and the District of Columbia. The marijuana wave is here to stay. For…

Off-Duty Use of Medical Marijuana: To What Extent Can Employers Say Something About It?

By Nathaniel M. Glasser and Anastasia A. Regne Before the rise in acceptance of medical marijuana use, companies often strictly enforced zero tolerance drug policies, even if those policies effectively prohibited employees’ off-duty use of medical marijuana. The legal landscape,…

An Overview of Current Workplace Drug Policies Across the United States

By Nathaniel M. Glasser and Anastasia A. Regne As Cannabis Business Executive readers are undoubtedly aware, there is a growing acceptance of marijuana use throughout the United States. The numbers certainly speak for themselves. The 2017 National Survey on Drug…

The Elephant Is In The Room And Her Name Is Mary Jane

“They took my whole paycheck and I know why (why man) Yeah hey cause I got high Because I got high Because I got high” Afroman, Because I Got High. T-Bones Records, 2000. Since June 25, 2019, the date that…

MJ HR: Protect Your Employees & Your Business with Actionable Tips in the Era of #metoo

There is little doubt that today’s cannabis industry offers career and entrepreneurial opportunities for women in ways surpassing those of other commercial enterprises. Just look at the number of women executives in today’s canna businesses. According to recent statistics, that…

Legalized Cannabis Remains a Burning Topic for Employers

With the possibility of legalized cannabis under federal law in the coming years, workplace policy changes are also in question. The legalization of cannabis isn’t an “if” but a “when” issue for employers in most states. While its legalization creates…