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How we tracked workplace lawsuits involving Pa.’s medical marijuana law

By Soapbox Group
October 7, 2022
  • Pennsylvania
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By: Ed Mahon for Spotlight PA

Our months-long investigation into employment protections for medical marijuana patients began with an email about a failed drug test.

After a drug screening indicated he had used marijuana, Philadelphia Gas Works employee Todd Douglas told me he faced a troubling choice: Give up a doctor-approved drug that provided pain relief, or risk his job. As our reporting explained, Douglas fought the drug test and won. Other medical marijuana patients weren’t so lucky.

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