Employers Deserve Cannabis Clarification From The Feds

The New Jersey Supreme Court just issued a decision that requires insurers and employers to reimburse injured workers for the use of medical marijuana.

In the case, lawyers for an employer argued that reimbursing for medical marijuana would in effect be ‘aiding and abetting and conspiracy liability under federal law.’

As Nancy Grover reported on this site yesterday, ‘the seven justices were ‘unpersuaded’ by [those] arguments, that reimbursing for medical marijuana would be tantamount to aiding and abetting and conspiracy liability under federal law, which deems marijuana to be illegal.’

Well, the justices may have been ‘unpersuaded,’ but the fact remains that paying for marijuana is, under federal law, illegal.

No fewer than five states have seen legislative and or judicial action that now puts insurance companies and employers in direct conflict with that reality.