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New York and New Jersey recently legalized recreational marijuana within less than 6 weeks of each other. While both acts prohibit employers from taking action against employees at least 21 years old who use marijuana recreationally and restrict employers from denying these employees’ employment rights and privileges based solely on marijuana use, it begs the question: What actions may an employer take to ensure a drug-free workplace?
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Employee Protections for Recreational User in New York
The Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) makes it unlawful for any employer to refuse to hire, employ, discharge or otherwise take an adverse employment action against an individual or job applicant because of his/her legal use of cannabis. Legal use must occur prior to the beginning or after the conclusion of an employee’s work hours or during legal recreational activities and must be off the employer’
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On Monday, April 12, 2021, New Jersey’s newly formed and seated Cannabis Regulatory Commission (“CRC” or “the Commission”) the body that will oversee New Jersey’s medical and adult-use cannabis programs held its first official meeting. Pursuant to New Jersey’s medical and adult-use cannabis laws, authority for oversight of New Jersey’s cannabis program was officially moved from the New Jersey Department of Health to the CRC. Now, the CRC’s work begins to structure the Garden State’s expanding cannabis industry which includes, among other things, issuing regulations and handling all aspects of licensing.
/PRNewswire/ The cannabis industry has long been awaiting New Jersey to open up its adult use program. And finally, on February 22, 2021, eleven years since.
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By TAPINTO RARITAN BAY
April 13, 2021 at 12:13 PM
Samuel Delgado of Perth Amboy has been named vice chair of the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission
Samuel Delgado of Perth Amboy has been named vice chair of the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory .
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By TAPINTO RARITAN BAY
April 13, 2021 at 12:13 PM
PERTH AMBOY – Sam Delgado, a former Verizon vice president and husband of Assemblywoman Yvonne Lopez (D-19th.), has been named vice chair of the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission.
During the commission’s first-ever meeting on Monday, April 12, Delgado, of Perth Amboy, said he looks forward to working with the other four commissioners to “create a very inclusive, entrepreneurial, and exceptional adult-use cannabis market.”