• Check this about walmart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESZze4KnfB0 

• I guess that you have never had cancer, because I have, and it is very painful to go through, and sometimes pot helps with the nausea going through chemo, so until you have been there, shut you mouth.

• Doesn't surprise me that Wamart fires anyone for any reason. I worked for Walmart for over 11 years and was fired for working over 5 hours without a lunch break when scheduled for 5 hours. Oh yea, forgot to mention that was 5 hours and 1 minute, yes 1 minute over 5 hours. I am fighting this with the labor board, and I am sure that I will win, because they are violating the law,

• Walmart is not destroying small towns and other businesses, your neighbors are by shopping there. And you not shopping their is Not going to change anything. If you buy only made in America stuff you are in a much higher income bracket than myself, you are a very lucky.

• I'm with you on this.

• i personally dont shop at walmart but if smoking weed is against their drug policy then he should be fired. besides weed is still against the law on the federal level. so even if he sues he wont have any grounds on which to sue

• I refuse to shop at "Wally-World" I think they should be run out of every city in America!

• Unfortunately courts have consistently held that companies can fire workers that have tested positive for pot pursuant to a zero tolerance policy even if physician prescribed in a state that recognizes medical marijuana. Florida is the only state that expressly forbids employers from taking adverse employment actions predicated on a positive drug screening for marijuana when the employee processes a state medical use card.

• Such ignorance should be a punishable offense.

• I too have been burned by walmart. As a shopper,as an employee, as a father, as an american veteran and as human being in general.

• i cant believe that some of you call this man stupid, you ignorant f*cks. And you also agree with Walmarts policy's???? I have worked for walmart on 2 occasions, once in 2006-2007 and now from 2010- present, i hate walmart for the way they treat people. They don't pay anyone for what they are worth

• hi howard, I loved your comments about the wal-mart family and will follow through in writing a letter as well...

• Perhaps he may have been canned for being drunk, but would they have tested for alcohol? probably not....! Companies like Wal-Mart are in a constant battle with the union who sees that their employees deserve adiquate compansaion for dangerous working enviornments, being that Wal-mart is a "Warehouse style store", associates must wear safety glasses and a vest while in the loading dock as well as on the floor when moving pallets or restocking items in different locations. Sorry man, it is too bad that so many companies hate on their employees, regardless of merit. David.T. Upland, Ca.

• I believe that if Walmart goes to court over this, they will lose, and lose big! In a workers comp claim the insurance company requires a drug screen to determine if it was a contributing factor as to why the employee has been injured. In such drug screenings they can tell exactly what type of narcotics and prescribed pharmaceuticals are in the blood/urine/swab test. In a state where medicinal marijuana has been legalized, the law states that THC in the blood stream of someone that is prescribed medicinal marijuana for a chronic illness should be held in the same regard as any other prescribed pharmaceutical that is prescribed to the individual in question.

• 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.

• You cut off your nose TO SPITE your face, not despite your face. And yes, by supporting the W, you are indeed slowly cutting off your nose. Druggies and pot smokers are medical pot smokers are three very very different things. 1) druggie - spends most of his day up, down, or looking for more, probably breaking into your house or car right now 2) pot head - spends most of his day inhaling smoke from a harmless plant, probably on a couch or working 3) medical pot user - same as above, but the doc says its okay

• Wal-Mart has a right to set their own policies regarding drugs. Medically prescribed or not marijuana has an effect on the system that MIGHT affect judgement. Alcohol is legal in Michigan but no one would complain if he lost his job because he was drunk. If someone wants to legally use marijuana for medical purposes, they also have to understand there are ramifications.

• Fucking troll, go get a life.

• Thank you for your idea about writing the walmart family. Years ago, when I was living in Dallas, Texas, a transplanted gay New Yorker,I took a lover who really enjoyed marijuana. In fact he was called "Radical Rich the Reefer Roller. He me introduced to cannabis for the first time in my life, I had to learn to inhale since I had never smoked, and all of this discovery at the age of thirty..All I can say is WOW!!!! I felt so connected to myself and so much pressure was lifted..of course that was back in 1973, when everything seemed to be iillegal, evenbeing gay.. Now in my 66th year on this planet , I have joined the activist movement here in Oakland, California. I have gained so much information about the use of cannabis,and all the medical advantages that it provides. I now have a medical cannabis card, and all the stigma around this fabulous medicine seems to be lifting,hopefully we will all be able to partake, without recrimination.. because I live in the Bay Area, San Francisco/Oakland things are much more lax here. All you smokers and non-smokers out there, look up Harborside Health Center, and see the premier dispensary in the country,a model for all dispensaries..They even have free legal advice for everyone..I will write the Wal-Mart family and as an activist in the movement for legalization I will get hundreds of others to do the same...I hope that one of the top executives ar Wal-Mart, walks in on his teenage son, who happens to have a summer job at one of the stores, because his daddy is in charge, and he finds his son sucking cock and smoking a different kind of joint. I bet the kid would not get fired, because daddy looked the other way...

• druggies. really. and there is medical use for it, it has been shown. obviously, or else he wouldnt have been given it. youre really dumb as fuck arent you.

• I agree with your statement about the decision was made by someone who views MJ... The managers have the choice of making the final call. They can let anything slide if they want to or enforce it, just depending upon their view point. Yes, they have policy to follow and yes they are most likely being dictated to by someone above them but ultimately they have to make a decision about how they are going to handle the situation. There must have been something underlying that no one knows about. Whether that be personal or what have you. I would bet alot that this decision was personal and had nothing to do with policy at all. If you want my thoughts on it, let the man keep his job as long as the MJ doesn't get in the way. Wal Mart can go to hell for all I care.

• I havent shopped at walmart in 12 years! and will spend 20 dollars in gas to drive across town to shop elsehwere

• 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.

• 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.

• Here's a question for you. Had he been taking those alternatives to pot, aka stuff like percocets, oxycontin, and morphine, would he still have gotten fired for testing positive for those? What if he was prescribed xanax for anxiety and tested positive for that, would they still can him? Nope, he'd probably be stocking shelves and dealing with irate customers right now. If they didn't allow prescription drugs to be in your system they'd lose 90% of their elderly work force, and probably a good portion of their younger and middle aged employees too. I can almost guarantee the decision was made by someone who views marijuana as a dangerous drug and doesn't agree with it being used for medicinal purposes. They probably made the decision based on their own views, rather than the fact that marijuana is a legally prescribed medicine. If they had been a cancer patient that smoked themselves, or even just agreed that it should be allowed to be used for medicinal purposes, they would have interpreted the policy differently and he would have kept his job. Bottom line though, they shouldn't be allowed to pick and choose which PRESCRIPTIONS their employees are and aren't allowed to use. Like I said earlier, if he had tested positive for opiates or benzos, they wouldn't have given the results a second glance. The ONLY reason they made a big deal about it is because it was marijuana.

• 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 hope that someday you know exactly what it feels like to be in such pain that you can't move, function or think properly, and no mainstream 'legal' drug is effective; so nauseous you don't want to, and cannot eat, and no regular antinausea medication works; so uncomfortable and miserable, that you cannot even THINK beyond the next minute. Maybe then, you'll think those 'druggies' might have a point.

• 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 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.....

• Wuck Falmart...HAHA!!!! My new motto...thank you!! LMAO

• Evidentally you've never worked for Walmart before.

• Please, please, please - - it is legal for cancer patients in Michigan - - and wal mart had no business firing him - period! This young man did not have to tell his employer it's none of their business. Knowing wal mart, they already knew from another associate that he smoked MJ - and they used his sprained knee for the excuse to take him for a blood test - ummmm, if he got fired there goes his insurance. I am happy for this young man that he has found some relief in his pain - no one thinks or even knows what pain he and others go through! Wal-Mart I am ashamed of you - I hope Mr Caisas gets his job back with back pay - if not, he needs to sue Wal-Mart for wrongful termination.

• Several recent studies have shown that there is very little or no connection between marijuana smoke and cancer. There are even studies that propose the idea that marijuana has an anti-cancer effect. Check out this study by Dr. Donald Tashkin of UCLA <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729.html>UCLA study.</a>

• That is just it ! you can not tell if he was high at work or not a drug test doesn't tell you that. it just tells you that he is a pot smoker. Now legal or not it is part of the company policies that all employees agree to when entering a contract to work for said company and the clearly state that you will be terminated for failed drug test and any injury at would will cause you to have to take such a test for workmen comp purposes. I know this is what none of you want to hear but Wal-mart did nothing wrong. Once this man was prescribed the drug by his Doctor he should have immediately spoke to his supervisor about the situation and the possible back lash that could occur before ever taking the drug. The man had a work agreement and he violated that agreement it really is as simple as that. is it a heartless move by Wal mart ...Yes it is but is it legal yes it is. when you sign the application and all the paper work that you have when you are hired someplace you have entered an agreement with said company. If you violate said agreement and the policy recommends termination then so be it you got what you signed on for plain and simple. I will continue to shop where ever i save the most money and for me that is at Wal mart for some things i will not cut off my nose despite my face. There are better causes to fight for out there and this is not one of them it is open and shut as i have said above.

• 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

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

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

• Should an employer be allowed to hire people based on race then? Or religion? Because apparently according to you all the progress we've made since the Middle Ages is for nothing. The bottom line is that medical marijuana is legal in Michigan, and since he wasn't high on the job, he has the right to take his medication as long as it doesn't interfere with his job. Read the American Disability act of 1990 man. We fought hard for this shit and Wal-mart has no right to take it away from us.

• To EVERYONE, not just Keith here is the way I look at it. 1. he was given a PERSCRIPTION for it so yes it should be legally ok for him to use it, as far as he should not be arrested in his home for having it. 2. I agreee that it should be legal COMPLETLEY in my opinion. 3. HERE IS THE HUGE BUT..... BUT, i think any company should be able to say, if you work for me you cant use it. 4. Alchohol is legal but if he showed up positive for it at teh time he would have been fired. 5. smoking is legal but more and more companys are banning there employees from using it. My belief is THIS is where the pro-marijuana people have to compromise. LEGALIZE IT... but do not FORCE others to have to put up with it. if they don't want to hire people that smoke weed, that should be there right, if they don't want to hire people that drive toyotas.. yep, there right. your right to smoke pot and be employeed should not be confused with your right to smoke pot. he had alternatives, to weed. they might not work as well... but he had alternatives. again, I support the guy, I think what he did was "legal" BUT I also support walmarts right to say that they do not employee marijuana users.

• Brian, I totally disagree with your posting. Walmart is a Super Chain Store with tremendous purchasing power! This crucial aspect allows it to purchase items at costs that are vastly lower than a "Mom & Pop store! To blame the smaller stores for not being able to compete with a Giant Chain Store displays a lack of contextual understanding with the Economics of big and small business'es. Besides, the children of Sam Walmart are billionaires...and couldn't spend all of their money in 2 life times!

• 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

• I don't shop Target because they don't want to do anything for our Men who fight for our Country,Shame on Target.

• Brain, you are so right,he would be the first to sue if he got hurt on the job after smoking even for health reasons.

• Amen

• 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!!!

• 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!

• The people who get away with alcoholic is because they let the first case that was not severe continue, once the slope is started it get more and more outragous until you can't use good sence anymore and the drunk at work can't get fired. When you start down a road you can't alwways choose the ending, so it is often better to not go there, and this is the outlook of Walmart, if you can't enforce the test results you can't stop when the use occurs.

• 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.

• Any company has the right to stand by their policies. Just because a bunch of druggies decide to smoke somthing that is proven to have no medical value doesn't mean that companies have to tolerate it at their company. Way to go Walmart for sticking to policy.

• 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

• 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!

• 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.

• must be nice to be rich enough to not HAVE to shop at Wally World....When financial reform comes and hell freezes over we'll stop going there but for now, we're trapped...

• 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!!

• 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.

• Wonder if Walmart Pharmacy carries medical marijuana and sells it? Just curious?

• Well, in this case, I'd dare to say that "religion" is a drug~it alters your conciousness and ways of thinking! It's alot worse for you than maryjane!

• Right On!

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

• 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!

• Given your medical treatment philosophy, the day you die may come a little sooner than you bargained for.

• Worthless pothead got what he deserved.

• Go to Change.org und all sign up for your own petition you are able to create. Change. org did a petition against Starbuck as well because they were against cannabis too. Not any more so. greets

• thank you all for your support god bless all of you

• Wow, you people suck. Fortunate enough to not have to pee in a cup for your job? Shut up and be thankful. Guess what? Lots of folks don't have that luxury. They're just trying to put food on the table, you insensitive pricks. Not a lot of choice in the matter.

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

• i got hurt on the job at walmart before, and they have someone personally escort you to a hospital for a drug test, which you take in the bathroom with someone watching you. You can't slip out for a few hours and get clean piss. And he didn't deserve to get fired anyway, fluck walmart!

• Was honored to make the 100+ mile drive with my wife to show our support with the 100+ people who showed up to protest outside of that despicable establishment. DO NOT EVER SHOP IN THEIR STORE AGAIN! PERIOD! END OF STORY! What they have done to Joe is basically kill him be taking his job away from him. Now, they are challenging his unemployment compensation? My wife and I are both disabled. The protest rally was difficult but well worth it. We're exhausted but we will sleep better tonight. Amen to all the brave brothers and sisters who showed up to picket that evil empire. WalMart? WUCK FALMART!

• Im pretty sure this is just a way for walmart to keep from paying any up coming bills. I hate walmart.

• 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.

• 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.

• No, cigarette filters are not made of fiberglass, that's an urban legend. Although some of them were made of asbestos in the 1950s.

• Actually my husband was fired for taking a prescribed opiod medication. However, he was hired when he took it and it wasnt until he got hurt on the job that that they fired him.

• You must work for Wally World...

• Ill piss in it, if they will hold the cup....of course I might be a little shaky that day...;)

• So lets get it straight...Take the medicine the doctor prescibes and live or dont take it. Work for Wally World and die?....Some choice. Wally World is EVIL. I dont shop there and NEVER will. Costco and target are my stores.

• 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.

• Do you realize you sound like a fascist apologist for Wal-Mart? They drug tesst for a sprained ankle? Huh-lo.

• Seeing as you look down on those that have to pee in a cup for employment, i suggest you never visit a hospital again. All staff has to do this... it's the law. We wouldn't want you to have to be touched by such lowly human beings as nurses or doctors. so next time you are sick or injured, go crawl into a hole a die.

• 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!

• 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.

• 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.

• there's fiberglass in the FILTERS moron

• 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.

• $3,000 is less than they rake in from your community every hour.

• As long as you do piss in a cup you VOTE YES on making it ok to piss in a cup. Fucktard, that's why you have no job!

• racialism? smoke another one pot-head, lol

• 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.

• 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.

• 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'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

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

• 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.

• Your a dumbass. The man's rights as an American and a resident of Michigan were directly violated. He did nothing "stupid" except maybe taking advice from his doctor, and performing the duties assigned to him by his Managers (and apparently he did them very well if he won employee of the year). This should not be tolerated and whoever was responsible for firing him should lose their job and he should be rehired and compensated for this outrage.

• 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!

• 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

• Mattt, his rights under the American's with Disabilities Act hasn't been violated. Even though the state has legalized it for medical use, federal law still prohibits it. Since federally it's illegal, federal laws regarding the accommodation of a disability do NOT include the use of illegal drugs. Wal-mart would most likely lose the unemployment case, and definitely lose a wrongful termination suit (provided it didn't go higher than state-level), but win any litigation that tried to use the American's with Disabilities act. Either way, the link I posted goes to the MI law specifically banning employers from disciplining registered users.

• 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.

• 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.

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