DENVER—Oil and gas producers are taking up an odd subject at the Rocky Mountain Energy Epicenter conference in Denver—medical marijuana use by employees.
Attendees will hear a briefing Thursday from a noted employment lawyer at the Mountain States Employers Council, Curtis Graves. Graves planned to talk about employer and employee’s rights as legal loopholes arise for the use of marijuana.
Colorado’s constitutional provision about pot says that “nothing in this section shall require any employer to accommodate the medical use of marijuana in any work place.” But employees and patients have been confused about whether patients can be fired who don’t use pot on the clock.
Graves says that having a marijuana card does not give an employee a disability that must be accommodated under law.
