I do not shop WalMart for other reasons, unless I cannot find what I need elsewhere. This is just one more reason why NOT to shop at WalMart. Hiding behind their rigid policies is an excuse, not a reason. They are predators! They destroy small towns other businesses. AND, virtually everything they sell comes from China! They do not deserve our business!

Why do they continue to call marijuana/Cannabis a drug? I is a herb, drugs are made by man Cannabis is made by GOD! Only Satan would be so cold and fire someone for using the healing herb!

This will happen over and over until cannabis is re-legalized. Re-legalization won't stop employers from using whatever rules they think fit, but it will put pressure on them due to reducing the stigma of using cannabis. Employers can now refuse to hire tobacco users and tobacco is still legal.

When that happens, the threat of boycott will be effective and they will change their policy. As it is, just legalizing the medical use of cannabis is not enough.

This is why I have a personal policy. Only my doctor is allowed to ask for samples of my body fluids, unless its a request for a taste test!

Seriously, the very idea that an employer thinks its ok to ask me to degrade myself to the point that I will piss in a cup on demand for them is insulting. I don't work for people who have so little respect for their employees as to make such unreasonable demands. Period.

Frankly, I take a dim view of anyone who pisses in a cup for a job. You may as well sell your body on the street corner. At least prostitutes don't pretend to have dignity.

-Steve

Here is the local paper in Benton, Arkansas. This is the home town to the Walton family. send a letter and express our shame.You know that they cannot fire a employee if they are are Oxycontin,or other opiates, but they fired a loyal employee becaues he has a prescrittion for marijuana.
Time to call the human and civil liberaties groups

THIS is an OUTRAGE! WalMart SELLS IMPORTED HEMP!

BOYCOT THIS BULL!

Here is the local paper in Benton, Arkansas. This is the home town to the Walton family.
http://www.nwaonline.com/
send a letter and express our shame.You know that they cannot fire a employee if they are are Oxycontin,or other opiates, but they fired a loyal employee becaues he has a prescrittion for marijuana.
Time to call the human and civil liberaties groups

hell yeah. walmart sucks anyways!

your all morons

well i got me some bread pans and some conditioner from Wal Mart today, they are going right back on my boycott list, i dont believe any employer has the right to put anyone through a drug test, ill quit and find a crap job before id let that happen to me i have more pride than that. And if i do my job, show up on time etc than my employer has no need to know what i do on my personal time. we are free to live our lives as we choose, the GOVERNMENT has somewhere along the line decided to make rules to govern us since they think they know whats good for me!! i guarantee that they do not know whats good for me, docs trying to shove pills down our throats when there is a natural cure for basically every malady on this planet , yet they want to poison us with chemicals, BAH. ill self medicate with homeopathic cures, till the day i die.

This is horrible. The best thing to do in this situation for the guy is try to fin an attorney who will support this cause pro bono. I would encourage any lawyer reading this to contact the man and help. Honestly, at this point, I would expect this from Walmart but something STILL has to be done.

If he has a legal prescription for it, then this is no different than firing someone over any other medical problem they take medication for, which would usually be considered discrimination. I don't see why this shouldn't fall under that same purview, just because employment regulations haven't caught up with the new medical marijuana laws.

My initial though was that although the reason given for his termination was the failed drug test, the actual reason was because the company was afraid it would have to pay for the various treatments for his cancer, such as the medical marijuana.

Not only should people be raising this issue with the local media, but they should be contacting their state and federal representatives to protest. (Being from Canada, my complaints would most certainly be ignored).

Dude thats like totally incredible man, I mean like wow.

jess
www.isp-snooping.es.tc

fuck walmart, i dont shop there anyway! joseph you should sue their ass!!

I agree with the people who say that this guy should sue their asses off. Can you hear us and can you say.....LAWSUIT.

I have never bought from Walmart before, people who do are the problem.

This just reaffirms my hatred.

Sometimes I have trouble telling the difference between my feces and conservative ideology.

I guess WalMart was afraid he'd start stealing Bibles to use the pages for rolling papers. Then he was going to sell those joints to kids he was recruiting for the Taliban. Good thing they nipped this in the bud before things got out of hand.

Joseph Casias was using cannabis to relieve pain! And for that, he got fired.

(The following is a copy of the email I recently sent to Wal-Mart corporate HQ. I suggest anyone else outraged by their actions to do the same.)

This email is regarding former Wal-Mart employee Joseph Casias, who, despite being an "Associate of the Year" at his Battle Creek store, was fired for using MEDICAL marijuana to treat symptoms resulting from cancer. I find this cowardly act by management to be despicable. To take such severe retribution against another human being just because your corporate culture doesn't like someone's choice of medicine to treat a terminal disease makes a mockery of human compassion. Not only are Wal-Mart's actions malicious and wrong in a moral sense, it is illogical for the company to generate negative PR for itself, and therefore anyone who was involved in this decision has intentionally caused harm to Wal-Mart's shareholders. I have always heard that Wal-Mart does not care about its store-level employees and I was on the fence on the issue before, but this incident has tipped the scales for me and convinced me that Wal-Mart is not a good employer. I will certainly curtail my spending at your stores until this wrong has been righted. Kroger should send your company a letter of thanks for my additional business.

Michigan the law states that a registered user can’t be subject to arrest, prosecution OR PENALTY IN ANY MANNER OR DENIED ANY RIGHT OR PRIVILEGE INCLUDING ACTION BY A BUSINESS. Later in the law it states “nothing in this act shall be construed to require an employer to accommodate the ingestion of marijuana in any workplace or any employee working while under the influence of marijuana.” Is simply allowing a patient to consume their prescribed medicine ONE TIME in a 30 day period an accommodation? When I think of an ‘accommodation for ingesting marijuana in any workplace, or working under the influence,’ I interpret this to say that you are not allowed to eat brownies at your desk, hit the bong in your car on your break, or before work. Essentially, you can’t come to work intoxicated, or get intoxicated during the workday. BUT I DO NOT INTERPRET THIS LANGUAGE AS STATING THAT YOU CAN BE FIRED JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE CONSUMED MARIJUANA IN THE LAST 30 DAYS AS YOUR DOCTOR SUGGESTED. I guess it just depends on how persuasive your attorney is, and how biased the judge is.

Johnny Green
http://www.theweedblog.com

Every drug originates from some natural source. Marijuana has been proven time and time again to have magnificent medicinal uses with less adverse effects than Tylenol! When in the hell are we going to legalize this life enhancing medicine.Has anyone recently read the statistics related to alcohol deaths from a multitude of reasons. compare it to the non existent marijuana,incidents. P.S. I loath Wal Mart and this only ads to my hatred. I shall never darken their doorways and if those who slumber mentally 24 hrs. a day would awaken they would not waste their hard earned money shopping at this dehumanizing insulting hell hole.

Only in America

Michigan the law states that a registered user can’t be subject to arrest, prosecution OR PENALTY IN ANY MANNER OR DENIED ANY RIGHT OR PRIVILEGE INCLUDING ACTION BY A BUSINESS. Later in the law it states “nothing in this act shall be construed to require an employer to accommodate the ingestion of marijuana in any workplace or any employee working while under the influence of marijuana.” Is simply allowing a patient to consume their prescribed medicine ONE TIME in a 30 day period an accommodation? When I think of an ‘accommodation for ingesting marijuana in any workplace, or working under the influence,’ I interpret this to say that you are not allowed to eat brownies at your desk, hit the bong in your car on your break, or before work. Essentially, you can’t come to work intoxicated, or get intoxicated during the workday. BUT I DO NOT INTERPRET THIS LANGUAGE AS STATING THAT YOU CAN BE FIRED JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE CONSUMED MARIJUANA IN THE LAST 30 DAYS AS YOUR DOCTOR SUGGESTED. I guess it just depends on how persuasive your attorney is, and how biased the judge is.

such a shameful act by walmart...

www.saadstore.com

Such a disappointing thing for company like WALMART

Regards
Muhammad Saad Mubeen
http://www.saadstore.com

Wow what a story. That is completely ridiculous I might add. When somebody can't even take their medicine if they have a job at Wal Mart that's a huge sign of stupidity on Wal Mart's part.

Wal-Mart is great for buying groceries - I can't buy them anywhere else in town and still feed my family full healthy meals on our budget. Not to mention the $3,000 they just donated to my son's school - If you are going to boycott Wal-Mart you might as well boycott Disney, Blockbuster, Pepsi, Proctor & Gamble, etc.... Every retailer has a dark side - the foundation of modern economics, unfortunately... Everything in moderaiton - yes it sucks they treated that guy so horribly and something should be done - but unless you are going to eliminate all evil you have to live with at least some.

Seems America just can't do without some second class citizens to kick around, even with a medical scrip to keep the cops out of the equation, it just gets outsourced to the private sector to starve out dissenting lifestyles.
Can't discriminate against women, minorities, and gay people any more? Well we have to discriminate against SOMEONE, why not cancer patients! They won't live long enough to litigate, and that's one less employer contribution for radiation treatments, oh wait, nevermind, Walmart just tells you to go on foodstamps and medicaid instead of paying you a living wage and offering health benefits.

Good call, Boycott the entire fortune 500. If we aren't supposed to tolerate governments treating people like slaves, it should be no different for private entities.

Perhaps if Wal mart did not systematically remove the ability of people to make a living outside of selling your skills to Wal Mart, you would be able to afford to shop elsewhere JSP. As it stands, they impoverish communities and then the communities are forced to buy their shit and work for them because they have no choice anymore. But your right, evil can never be totally defeated, so we should all just grab our ankles, because some people, especially if they have INC or LLC after their name, are more equal than others.

Fuck Them Fuck Them Fuck them.

By not honoring this mans medication, Walmart once again verifies how little it cares about anything but a nasty buck. To them employees are replaceable by the dozen. Sue those corporate parasites. Lets all work to rid our neighborhoods of this infection. It is causing social cancer all over the world. Cheap is not the only way. Buy local. Neighbors feed your neighbors and get rid of these walls we have built between us and our global potential.

I continue to bypass Walmart and other retails as much as I can, especially Walmart - it has been 2 years since I last bought anything from them and will continue on.

This just makes me more angry!

walmart needs to take a toke, christ, its WALMART! they can suck a fat dick..fuckin losers. how u gunna ruin someones life like that. fuck u walmart. TARGET ALL THE WAY!

It's OK. You don't really want to work there anyway. I hear that not only are they purebred evil when it comes to exploiting 3rd world labor, but they don't treat their U.S. employees as if they are worth a shit either.

Oh wait, I guess you already knew that second part.

Sorry but I feel that walmart did what they needed to. It would look bad on them if they let people using drugs work for their company, even if it is for a medical thing.

What they did here only makes them look bad to marijuana users and people that support marijuana. Just my two cents.

There is only one proper course of action for the former employee:

a) start to grow medical grade marijuana - he now has plenty of time and we know he's a good employee and he has a legal script so he's legit so this shouldn't be too challenging.

b) then sell the extra to whoever else will pay the most.

c) use the proceeds to change the laws and legalize marijuana without a prescription like we are doing here in California.

N.C. HB 1380 will not allow employers to fire their employees nor punish them for testing postivie for cannabis with a doctor's recommendation.
Come on everyone, help NCCPN pass HB 1380 the NC Medical Marijuana Act.
Free the Medicine and Free the Patients!

Wal Mart is making their choice. We all must make our choice between the old, tired way and the new sustainable model. Because Wal Mart has made their choice we must now make our choice NOT to shop at Wal Mart for ANYTHING EVER AGAIN.

Up Against the Wal*Mart!

Boycott Wal*Mart for its inhumane lack of compassion and for its prejudice against medical marijuana patients.

Our time has come and we are not taking any more. We will peacefully resist. No compromise in defense of the mother herb.

Michigan Marijuana Law States that you CANNOT be fired for using Medical Marijuana. You are not required to disclose that you are using it either. there are plenty of Attorneys wise to the MMML and would love to take on Walmart. I hope you decide to go after them bro' I am a registered patient and grower myself and I feel lucky to have the opportunity to use this medicine.

I dont shop at walmart now and I'll make sure no one else I know does.

Peace and GoodLuck

I'm sure they wouldn't have done that to a person on Oxy's for cancer pain, but then again that person would have been too screwed up to work! I would hope the ACLU would pick up on this one. It is clear discrimination. Racialism isn't just about the color of a person's skin, it is clearly being used in these cases against people who use marijuana. It's the green racialism.

I see the true evil in Walmart to their empoyees. I shop there every week, but from now on I will not. I really can't stand not finding anything made in the USA. Everything is made in China where they steal intellectual property. Shadyville!!!

WOW Steve, congrats on creating a Marijuana themed social media thingy. MY only concern is all the stories are posted by Steve, and it's noted that every story is posted by Steve, individually on every story. A little excessive we get it, Toke is Steve's baby.
OH and Wal-Mart Sucks, fight the power..
And every viable seed that isn't going to be used for personal gardening should be grown large enough to be distinguishable as Marijuana then transplanted EVERYWHERE... I'm telling you, that along with massive petition drives in every locale would could get some policy changes. Throw in prank calls from dollar store cell phones to the police stations across the country could keep them busy enough to not have time to bust you...
PEACE...

i thinks unfair and he should fight hardcore man. how els are ppl going to work, it causes stress both ways. its like hiring a child molester and not knowing it (but its weed) ppl treat us so called stoners like criminals. it can b sivalized and maintained peacfully.

Fuck Wallmart!

Wal-Mart sells alcohol and alcohol paraphernalia at the checkout area alongside the children's candies.

Alcohol kills 150,000 people every year from disease alone, yet Cannabis kills nobody, and helps many.

Time to boycott Walmart.

The psychoactive and non-psychoactive ingredients in Cannabis, the cannabinoids, are useful for the treatment of pain, inflammation, nausea, asthma, colds and flu, menstrual cramps, alcoholism, Crohn’s disease, irritable bowel syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis, glaucoma, Cancer, AIDS, motor neuron disease, mental irritability, depression, bipolar disorder, drug addiction, and as an adjunct to cancer radiation and chemotherapy.

Cannabis is a powerful antioxidant. It soaks up free radicals produced by our metabolism. These free radicals cause cancer and are involved the aging process.

Cannabis is neuro-protective. It decreases brain cell death induced by alcohol and other toxins as well as diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and stroke. As an antioxidant and neuroprotectant, it slows aging.

Cannabis helps prevent and cure cancers. Lab studies have shown anti-tumor effects on deadly cancers of the brain, lung, prostate, and breast. The first study of this kind was supported by the US Government, but the results were suppressed in 1974, after the study was completed. Imagine all of the lives that may have been saved if they did not hide the results.

It is sad that our government will not allow safe and legal access to such a wonderful and beneficial plant. Instead, our politicians and police try their best to make it impossible to obtain cannabis even for those who are sick, dying, disabled and suffering.

The Arrest and Prosecution Industry is determined to maintain the war on marijuana, at the expense of our citizens, including our children. Law enforcement officials are not motivated by maintaining public safety. They are motivated by one thing: job security. These people are not out to protect people; they are out to fight a literal war on marijuana, medical or otherwise. As they fight this war, they do their utmost to ensure that we remain awash in alcohol, the substance that contributes most to the crime and violence that keeps them busy.

this is why the medical marijuana movement is a bunch of bull$hit. 50 states are seeking 50 different policies and the corporations can hide behind these archaic laws. we need to move forward as a nation now and end the insanity!

END the WAR ON MARIJUANA and its ENTIRE SUSPPLY and DEMAND CHAIN!

eRepublik to gra łącząca aspekty polityczne, militarne oraz gospodarcze. eRepublik ma światowy zasięg, zarejestrowanych jest prawie 400 tysięcy graczy, z czego 60 tysięcy to POLACY (najliczniejsza nacja)!
Polska jest w tej chwili wplątana w liczne walki i potrzebujemy jak największego napływu nowych graczy, którzy pozwolą nam stworzyć potęgę na skalę światową. Nasz najważniejszy cel - aneksja Niemiec został wykonany!
Chcesz walczyć przeciw innym krajom i w kolejnych powstaniach, które wybuchają w podbitych regionach?
Od niedawna jest także język polski, jako jeden z możliwych do wyboru w grze, co na pewno spodoba się wielu nieanglojęzycznym graczom!
Pomóż Polsce! Dołącz już dziś!
http://pomoz-polsce.tk/

P.S. Najlepiej używać skrzynek e-mail na serwerach yahoo i gmail

It is wrong of Walmart for firing an employee who truly needed marijuana (prescribed) for his cancer pain.

The world is getting smarter and many are not shopping Walmart for reasons such as this.

Prescriptions are prescriptions and shouldn't be questioned.

Walmart has very very narrow thinking, and just because they have money they have become CORPORATE BULLIES. They abuse people, and take advantage of the poor. I would not at shop Walmart, or support them in any way.

This could be a good case for the ACLU. His rights under the American's with Disabilities act has clearly been violated as Wal-Mart violated federal laws which require reasonable accommodations. If Wal-Mart wins their appeal to deny him unemployment, then this guy needs to get the ACLU involved. Seriously.

http://www.aclumich.org/

No more shopping at WalMart for me. It was one thing to fire him but than to challenge his benefits. Thats just cold blooded.

Moderate smoking of marijuana appears to pose minimal danger to the lungs. Like tobacco smoke, marijuana smoke contains a number of irritants and carcinogens. But marijuana users typically smoke much less often than tobacco smokers, and over time, inhale much less smoke. As a result, the risk of serious lung damage should be lower in marijuana smokers. There have been no reports of lung cancer related solely to marijuana, and in a large study presented to the American Thoracic Society in 2006, even heavy users of smoked marijuana were found not to have any increased risk of lung cancer. Unlike heavy tobacco smokers, heavy marijuana smokers exhibit no obstruction of the lung's small airway. That indicates that people will not develop emphysema from smoking marijuana.

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Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. “Legalization: Panacea or Pandora’s Box.” New York. (1995): 36.

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Turner, Carlton E. The Marijuana Controversy. Rockville: American Council for Drug Education, 1981.

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Nahas, Gabriel G. and Nicholas A. Pace. Letter. “Marijuana as Chemotherapy Aid Poses Hazards.” New York Times 4 December 1993: A20.

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Inaba, Darryl S. and William E. Cohen. Uppers, Downers, All-Arounders: Physical and Mental Effects of Psychoactive Drugs. 2nd ed. Ashland: CNS Productions, 1995. 174.

the only reason i go to walmart, is to steal things.

The problem with Walmart is that they try to impose their Arkansas hillbilly attitudes on all their employees. If we rephrase the situation in this case as "Walmart fires man for using legal prescription drug they don't approve of", things become a little clearer. Seems to me that the states that have okayed medical marijuana should also make it illegal to penalize anyone in any way for using this drug when prescribed or recommended by their doctor.

Walmart management is a sleazy bunch of dimwits who avoid responsibility by putting on a see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil act - except when it suits them to do otherwise. There was a case where a plot of land destined for a Walmart contained a number of bald eagle nests, which are protected by law. Mysteriously, all the nest trees were cut down. Walmart pretends to know nothing about it. Liars!

Those who don't shop at Walmart: you aren't missing anything. It's all unserviceable junk anyway; nearly everything Walmart sells is a waste of your money.

Surprised?I'm not.Wal-Mart operates like a
gestapo and has ever since Sam Walton died.
His kids are thugs and are consumed with greed.I haven't shoped there in years and
don't intend to until they stop treating their employees like dirt and quit buying that cheap crap from China.

Surprised?I'm not.Wal-Mart operates like a
gestapo and has ever since Sam Walton died.
His kids are thugs and are consumed with greed.I haven't shoped there in years and
don't intend to until they stop treating their employees like dirt and quit buying that cheap crap from China.

Walmart destroys small independent business. How many hardware stores are gone because of them moving into a small town...of course, the public is to blame..in their thirst for low prices, without regard for the impact that it has on businesses, they vote out businesses that offer personal service but charge more...

I don't shop at Walmart and never will....

This story only strengthens my conviction

Remember AT&T was forced by the government to break up into "Baby Bells" because they were too big and had a monopoly like control?
Wal-Mart is much bigger than AT&T ever was and Wal Mart has a strangle hold on the ecomomy, especially at some local levels.
The only good thing Wal-Mart supplies is those unbelievable pictures of their customers that make the internet every week or so. One reason to NOT shop Wal-Mart is to be sure you're not one of them!

And now all the "baby" bells are AT&T again. And all the other so called monopolies that were broken up 20-30 years ago are now one again. And now that these corporations can empty their pockets on elections - WE THE PEOPLE need to wake up and take America back. Each freedom we are asked to temporarily give up will never be given back. It's time to start shopping locally, go to the dollar store, Dollar General, Aldi, etc. If we keep shopping at these stores, the status quo will continue.

Target here I come! WalMart f***ed my girlfriend's birthday cake the other day anyways.

I'm 57 years old, and not a marijuana user. However, I've read more than enough to prove to me the beneficial effects of grass to those suffering from cancer and a number of other serious diseases. These people need all the help we can get them, including the legal use of heroin in the end-stages for simple pain relief.

If my local Wal-Mart were having a 75%-off sale on fire extinguishers and I were to burst into flames in front of their store, I'd have to think long and hard if I would allow myself to go in and buy one to save my own life. I hate them. Loathe them. My friends consider me right-of-center and yet I would cheerfully buy at an openly Communist Party store before I'd give a bloody damned dime to the shills and criminals from the Ozarks.

You younger folks don't know the half of it. You don't know a tenth of it. Spend a few sorrowful hours searching out all the degrading, needless, and sociopathic miseries Wal-Mart has heaped upon its helpless employees and the communities they move in to destroy. The Internet will educate you to their decades of foul tricks and if you have half a heart you will be enraged and furious. I remain amazed they are not the targets of Molotov cocktails, arson of any and all kinds, and that their regional managers are not waylaid along rural roads, found with their throats slit sitting in their burning cars. They deserve worse, true, but that would be one handy way for the public to show the end of its tolerance for these Arkansas/Chinese Mafia.

Damn them all to hell. They force me to buy much more gasoline to drive to real cities where they have real stores and when I can hold my head high when I walk in as a cash-paying customer.

And as for the poor gentleman who was fired, God Bless you Sir. Even sick, even dying, you are a much finer American than anyone in that criminal organization above you. You will be in my prayers and those of my family.

Kent

i have personal experience with volmort and avoid it whenever possible, even if it means i will pay more. it might have been a half-way decent place to work when same walton was alive, but certainly not now. they are a venal, grasping, dehumanizing organization.

I DETEST walmart but in my small town, there is little else to choose because they have pretty much run off the mom & pop businesses.

Brian, you are apparently a walmart kiss-a$$ or manager. Walmart is horrible to all of their employees or are you so stupid as not to recall that it wasn't all that long ago that female employees were FINALLY made equal on the walmart pay scale?

Black & white is only for people without common sense and compassion. People like you. There are a lot of grey areas in this world that demand a common sense perspective.

Sam Walton is probably spinning in his grave after seeing what his dream has become.

First let me say that I am a firm believer in the legalization of Marijuana and have no views positive or negative about Wal-Mart. It seems that everyone in this comments is missing the big picture. When you are hired at any large retail facility you are given an employee handbook that has to be read and a document, signed by the employee stating they understand all of the rules outlined in the handbook is placed in their file. This document and handbook serve as a contract between employee and employer. Unfortunately for this man he violated that contract and the penalty was termination. If he had informed the store of his intention to use medicinal marijuana and provided proper documentation prior to starting the drug, Wal-Mart would not have been able to terminate him as it is illegal to fire someone due to medical condition or medications associated with the condition. It sucks that this happened to him but the law is the law and all contracts, regardless of how unfair, are legally binding. The assumption that all contracts can be broken is one of the reasons our justice system has turned into the sue happy zoo that it is today.

Andrea you have made a very good point about informing Walmart about the possible use of Medical Marijuana if recomended by his doctor. I really wonder what 'Walmarts Response' would be if an employee like John Casias who showed up to work every day and preformed his duties exceptionally well for five years would be allowed the exception of the rule.Time will tell.
I Will Not be shopping at Walmart.

Cannabinoids inhibit glioma cell invasion in brain cancer studies.
http://www.examiner.com/x-19678-Cannabis-Revolution-Examiner~y2010m3d11-Cannabinoids-inhibit-glioma-cell-invasion-in-brain-cancer-studies
Cannabis sativa L. and their derivatives, inhibit tumor growth in laboratory animals by inducing apoptosis of tumor cells and impairing tumor angiogenesis. -- It shows a lot of promise for brain cancer. In breast cancer research, cannabidiol turns of the switch of the bad gene that promotes the spread of cancer.

I haven't shopped at Wal-Mart since the day I found out that they destroy clothing by ripping sleeves off or tearing holes in coats, etc. and throw it in landfills rather than donating it to those in need.
I make no exceptions...if I can't find what I need or want then I go without.
Wal-Mart is a horrible corporation. They treat their employees with very little respect. A friend worked as an associate for a little over a year and stuck it out purely to see how bad it would get. It was just amazing the lengths Wal-Mart will go to strip it's employees of dignity!
To destroy and throw clothing items away during one of the hardest winters experienced on the east coast(USA)rather than donate these items to shelters is sickening. (I guess they get a larger tax write-off for destroyed items)
The decisions made by Wal-Mart executives on a daily basis are stupid and demoralizing.

I'll put aside any of my feelings on whether marijuana is ok or not (and on this issue, I vote not 9/10 times) - that is irrelevent in this case. The man had a medical certificate, did not smoke it at the store, and it did not affect his job performance. They were dead wrong to fire him!

Probably his medical insurance premium was too high because of the cancer and they could no longer collect the dead peasants insurance on him so he no longer had value to Walmart.

Much of this has to do with Worker's compensation insurance. The cost of insurance has driven business decisions. You get a discount on premiums and/or are able to obtain coverage with a policy to test after accidents. Though it was still Walmart's decision to terminate him, the problem is more viral and more far reaching than just at the employer level. I have been terminated for a dirty post-instance test with a different int'l. retailer. They were fine with the prescribed opiates that I took at work, but not the pot I smoked days before in my off time. By all means boycott Walmart, ( I already do for additional reasons) but this is not the giant in the fight, it is only the start. Hopefully it is one that will get the attention of others as well. I haven't been to a job interview in 5 years that didn't say they drug test pre-employment, and that is companies with 5 employees to multi-nationals.

dude, this really sucks. walmart isn't invincible though - they're closing some sam's clubs for underperforming!

which means they ARE feeling it when we refuse to spend our hard-earned money at walmart!!

-over 1200 days walmart-free and counting.

that is fucken bullshit he has the right to smoke he should fucken put a fucken lawsuit on those mother fuckers fuck walmart

thank you all for your support god bless all of you

Worthless pothead got what he deserved.

Realize there is a little thing called doctor/patient confidentiality.

In the future show the prescription to the doctor that is taking your piss test FIRST... BEFORE you piss in the cup.
You know the line on the form you have to fill out in the office before you agree to give up your bodily fluids/privacy. There is line on that form that specifically asks.. "Are you currently taking any prescribed medications at this time?" On that line...SAY YES and list what you are prescribed and give up the documentation. (YES, carry your prescription with you at all times!)

Doctor patient confidentiality… it’s a beautiful thing… They should not be able to disclose to ANYONE what medication you have been prescribed by your personal doctor at that point. If they do anyway...well you have someone new to sue for invasion of privacy won't you :)
"Piss test" Doctors could learn to cover their own asses PDQ if you know what I mean :)

Good luck with your next piss test!

Sorry you're losing your job dude. I bet you're losing a lot more than just a job too. My prayers go out to you and your family. Wal-Mart should rethink their position on this PDQ, it will snowball...end up huge... if we the people refuse to let this go. Get behind this man America, it's the right thing to do!

eff wal-mart, they sukk anyways when it boils down to it.

Henry: It doesn't work the way you state.

I've tried to disclose my medications when taking drug tests, they don't want to see it. For the most part (in Ca. anyhow) you go to a clinic where a nurse, not a doctor, supervises your paperwork and pissing in the cup. They do a quick strip test for metabloites of drugs and if you pass this you are finished. If you fail the strip test, your sample is then sent to an outside and supposedly certified lab for chromography. If the extensive testing finds evidence of drugs you will then be contacted by an MRO (medical review officer) who then asks for your supporting documetation of prescriptions etc. and makes the determination of you passing or failing the test and then informs your employer/prospective employer of such. On doing some internet reading of forums by these MRO's it seems that some seem to accept a mj prescription and others won't. I didn't see any list of the criteria being employer enforced or if it was their personal choice. THey also didn't list their states in the forum so not sure if it was legalized states vs. non.

Kudos Henry!!!

What they did was WRONG!! I work for a company in which one of their employees was/is an alcoholic, because this person, at one point sought help for their 'disease' they could not/would not fire this person. Even though this person would show up reaking of alcohol, would drink in the parking lot at lunch and EVERYONE knew it..again, but because they had once sought treatment and had diagnosed with 'alocoholism' which was considered a 'medical condition' their hands were tied.
What Wal-mart did was a blatent disregard for this persons medical condition and also as a fellow human being....IMO
They will NOT be getting any more of my money!!

The thing is this....I've been taking schedule 2 substances since I was a kid. The drug testing company contacts me...I provide a prescription...end of story. Walmart pharmacies sell Marinal, synthetic THC, and the drug testing companies should be asking the same question to them that the are asking me. And then, if a prescription is provided, then the drug test should be clean.

I suffer from anxiety problems and was on antidepressants prescribed by the doctor. Sadly I thought about killing myself when I have three kids to live and breathe for. I smoked MJ for the purposes of keeping my anxiety in check. Sadly it is not legal at all in my state, but it has helped and I don't want to kill myself.

Walmart has also screwed someone else. A lady work for the company was in a serious car accident that left her terminally brain dead but still alive. Her family sued the driver and won, Walmart took almost all the money due to a clause in their insurance policy. Her family was going to use that money to be able to take care of her for the rest of her life. Shame on you Walmart!

There's no difference between using a big pharma drug and mj. I think they guy's got a solid case against Crap-mart.

I was dismissed from my job at BNY Mellon for engaging in the same activities as my coworkers. The difference - I'm bipolar, so I was labeled a "direct threat", and then the company lied about the circumstances.

Go to my website for more:
www.bnymellon-lies.com

For all of you that are so against drug testing, what about the air trafic controller, cop, mechanic, or any other profesion that directly controls your safty. If you make an exception for one it must be for all. If people all acted responcibly we wouldn't have any of these laws, but since people in general don't always concider the effects of their acts on others the laws happen and no law is perfect. I for one have to be subject for random test under FAA law, and you want that so the plane I inspect doesn't crash. So don't get high and mighty about the whole testing thing.

What REALLY gets me is that this poor guy, following the rules, gets sacked for doing his best. However, the Rangers manager can go out, have cocaine which is illegal by ALL the states, and is allowed to keep his very cushy job WITH all entitlements without as much as a slap on the wrist.

On top of that, the Ranger's manager is MUCH more of a public figure. What a HORRIBLE example to present to our kids!

NEVER again! I haven't been inside a WAL-Mart for 7 years. Their products are cheap and their employees are not much better. Why are all of surprised by this news? This poor man is one, of many, that have been givin the "shaft" by Wal-Mart. How many women have lost their jobs for getting pregnant? There are more law suits filed in our courts against these greedy business owners than any other. So, we all have choices, PLEASE for the sake of our country, BOYCOTT WAL MART!!!!!!! They suck!!!

People,People,People.
Walmart is an at will employer.That means since you don't have a contract with them for employment (like the upper management people do)they can fire you at any time for any reason. Most if not all low end jobs are this way...wrongful termination doesn't apply.
The real irony of all this is that walmart allowed (in california at least)people to stand at their front door and collect signatures for the ballot measure to legalize marijuana. It is now scheduled for the november election.
They easly collected enough signatures from walmart customers to qualify!
Hopefully california will be the first state to have completely legal marijuana for all those of legal age.(Tell all your friends in california to get out the vote)

Just remember...Walmart doesn't care if you shop there while you're high (or drunk)only that you bring money...that is the only language they speak...you can boycott all you want and they won't even notice or care

He's gonna get a multi-million dollar lawsuit settlement

BURN DOWN every wal-mart and piss on the ashes.

if this was in canada, he'd have a lawsuit against the canadian charter of rights and freedoms on scope and grounds of disibility in the workplace. hed get money for damages and definitely his job back

I believe Mr. Casias was treated poorly, possibly illegally, by Walmart. But to Steve, the author of the article, I find it very ironic that as you call for a boycott of Walmart, which I fully support, there are two advertisements for Walmart on your website!! One ad mentions finding employment at Walmart and provides a link for potential applicants... the other ad is about Walmart wanting customers to try the new 'febreeze' air freshener they sell? It seems 'google' posts some of these ads, but if it is in your control, maybe you want to leave the Walmart ads off of your website!! Just giggling at the irony.....

JOSEPH WHATS UP BRO HOPE YOU FIND YOURSELF IN A BETTER SITUATION THAN LAST WONDERING IF YOU COULD GET IN TOUCH WITH US FOR YOUR STORY WERE DOIN A MAGAZINE AND YOUR STORY IS ESSENTIAL TO US. GET AT US BRO

i stopped reading about a quarter of the way down cuz there are a TON of posts, but...

As people have said before: Walmart has the right to require employees to stay off marijuana. Now matter how you argue, it does impair the mind, and has permanent effects.

You arent allowed to get drunk at work. You arent allowed to smoke at work (usually). By the same token, you cannot use marijuana before work. He shouldve contacted his employer before taking medical marijuana.

and to all the people arguing that nothing "legal" works, how do you know that this was the case? Maybe there were mainstream painkillers he hadnt tried.

i am a care giver, that sucks for you, but we all know it will be a hard road to go down.thats not wright for them doing that i hope that it works out in the long run!i am looking for people that cant grow. rob.water@yahoo.com bad things happen to good people.

Justin, evidently you couldn't be bothered to read the article itself, either.

If you had, you'd know that Casias never went to work under the influence of marijuana.

MJ notused for pain used for nausea chemo effects or used to dull senses therefor some pain unfortunately corporations must have discretion to protect all employees and other consumers i applaud anyone with a cancer diagnosis who continues to work and provide for family anyone a half ounce of brains should realize an employee under the influance is a liability.