Question 5: Special Rights for Potheads

Have any of you who support this question actually read the bill? Let's check out the details. Read More...

Posted by Dan Billings
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 11:21pm

Have any of you who support this question actually read the bill?

Let's check out the details:

6. School, employer or landlord may not discriminate. A school, employer or landlord may not refuse to enroll or employ or lease to or otherwise penalize a person solely for that person's status as a registered qualifying patient or a registered primary caregiver unless failing to do so would put the school, employer or landlord in violation of federal law or cause it to lose a federal contract or funding.

So if someone claims to need medical marijuana, you can't refuse to rent to them or hire them.

7. Person may not be denied custody or visitation of minor. A person may not be denied custody or visitation of a minor for acting in accordance with this chapter unless the person's behavior is such that it creates an unreasonable danger to the minor that can be clearly articulated and substantiated.

If this law passes, a court can't take into consideration that a parent is stoned half the time when deciding what parent should get custody.

The bill also puts the Department of Health and Human Services in charge of regulating the dispensaries. Yes, DHHS.

Read the bill before you vote!

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