Wal-Mart Won’t Rehire Employee Fired for Medical Marijuana Use

i too was fired from walmart for teating positive after 11 years of employment.but heres the thing i went threw all of there policies and no where did it say they had to fire me.imediate termination only results from coming into work under the influence. i had a accident but was not under the influence of any substance at the the time.

Here is a comment that will blow the minds of AMBER, LISA, TRACY, GREGORY, EDWARD, DAWN, CHARLES, ANGIE-> (who thinks she is a MANAGER and does not have a clue)DAN and the rest of you MORONS. You RE-Hired me after I was FIRED and told that I could never work for Walmart ever again. You have held on to me for a year and then DENIED me a raise. You put me in charge of one of your most important departments, and my intention after being denied even a stinking 25 cent raise is to start printing this all over the place so everyone in the Saline, MI area understands the stupidity, and mis-treatment you all deal on the employeees you think you are in in charge of. You all sit in the back AD office and continue to read your personal magazines, chit chat and hire people that you are and were poor at investigating right thru company channels and I promise after I publish what I have to say with my real name, I will smile at you on the un-employment lines ! WHAT A BUNCH OF MORONS !

hey ups soldier, no one was ever prescribed alcohol either

I once opened a door at work , inthere was the item i was looking for and a co-worker looking at me like a frightened deer frozen with fear and white stuff sticking between his upper lip and his nose , his finger still on one side of his nose...oops! I just carried on like business as usual and there weren't any problems. As long as the job gets done you know!Walmart should not be so shitty towards their employees , but they do because they are shitty and they sell shitty stuff...
so don't go there.. later dudes!

I think it should be treated like alcohol. Most employees at Walmart can drink but it doesnt mean they go to work drunk!

god bless walmart and no one who works there. please

god bless walmart and none of the people who work there.
good night daddy

God bless Walmart and none of the people who work there.
good night daddy.

I agree that it was wrong to fire him, they should have given him a higher.

Poster below ... Yes, I know you're right. It's like I feel about voting >>> It only encourages the bastards. But since they made bear baiting illegal I need an alternate outlet.

Sometimes you getta just let the idiotic racist go. Arguing with him only fuels his stupidest ideas. If no one gives it attention he sounds that much more like an Ass.

the reason the corporate controlled government in d.c. will not make pot legal is because we could get high for nothing.
in the corporatecontrolled world that is all powerful today the citizen must pay for EVERYTHING. THE biggest rip off today is the FACT that we can produce free electricity by magnetic repulsion. Pollute the planet with the truth and the real future will come to BE. CHECK OUT MY MAGNETIC MOTOR CONCEPT AT riverratsaz.com/patthepilot----when the magnetic motors are here we will all stop for a beer HA!!!!or puff

Poster below, Get a scorecard and put the bong down for a minute to collect your thoughts. The pot smokin' klansman and me are quite different. I never said anyhting about killing kids.Are you tring to give Baltimore a bad rap? They crazy woman was from the D.C. area of the state; she just got sentenced to life for killing and freezing her two foster care charges ... Geesh!!!

WaaaWaaaaWaaaaa! One guy is racist the other wants to kill kids. How about taking a toke calm the mood and re-group. All the hate and anguish has nothing to do wal-mart giving some guy the axe for smoking medical bud. you both should get a life!

Wal-marts came from china or japan, either way its not an American company, and every time you buy some bullshit from there notice where it says it comes from, everything is from china. China, India and other eastern countries will be the new super powers in years to come, I don't care what happens anymore, everyone for themselves stock pile money everyone is greedy.

,,Since they didn't hire I man, they cannot fire I man'' ......................... . BURNING SPEAR .

You should kill your entire family starting with your children and then turn the gun on yourself. People like you that make the usa look bad. Please do us the favor and kill yourself. I will buy you the bullets if you can't afford it.

To the below poster ... You are pissin' in the wind and it's blowin' on all your friends. Why put the racist crap and then hide behind the reefer flag?

Take the MSN poll--http://msnbc.newsvine.com/_question/2010/03/15/4021020-is-america-ready-to-legalize-marijuana-

This story is atrociously sad and has been repeated over and over with the corporatization of the world. I boycotted them for years and have gone there a few times lately but am definitely going to re-commit to a total boycott as well as tell everyone I know whenever I can what a fucking evil empire they are.

I've boycotted Wal-Mart since I quit in August of 2006 after working there for more than 4 years. I quit because the direction the company was moving just didn't agree with my ethics. To this day I have never stepped inside of one. I am proof that there are other alternatives for shopping for groceries and goods. Like previous posts have said "vote with your dollar". Companies will listen to that....

Think about it. Companies like this, move into cities and towns. Soon after they move in, local mom and pop shops begin to close because they can't compete with the competitions lower prices. Soon these companies become the major employer in the communities that they're located. People are forced to work for the low wages with little benefits that they provide. Having such a broad and diverse workforce, these companies eventually end up hiring the sick and disabled. The company in question has a history of bad employee relations. I can remember a few years back, employees at a particular store voted for union representation. The company attempted to fight the employees in court. The company failed and the employees right to organize upheld. Soon after, the company closed the store.The largest mega store chain has failed in many ways. From their purchase of near slave labor items, to their base pay rate for floor employees. I've grown to despise the big chain stores. I get an odd feeling when ever I am in one. I feel like I am in a warehouse for chinese made goods. In a nut shell, the american poor work for low pay in a warehouse selling products made with slave labor from abroad. The big chain stores are exploiting labor on both sides of the pacific.
This issue is much bigger than one man getting fired. This case shows the mindset of the big box stores. This man was hurt on the job. I am sure that before they asked if he was ok, they were checking for drugs. That's the way it is for many companies. When ever there's an injury, look for a way to skirt responsibility. My hope is that more people will see things the way I do. Maybe we'll give another thought to the family owned grocery stores. Maybe we'll search for the mom and pop gas stations. We could even shut the tv off for the day and visit family. It's our dollar that feeds the corporate machine. We have the choice of who to give our dollars to. If you're someone that believes in righteousness, then perhaps now is the time to make a difference. Don't shop in the stores that violate your personal moral code. Only go to gas stations that give their employ good pay. Vacation no more than 300 miles from home. There are many ways, many things we can do. And those are my thoughts, till next time. Red steelclover at yahoo dot com

To bad for this fellow , however , Walmart does whats best for Walmart and rightly so . "Boycott " ? LMFAO ..

BOYCOTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is unfortunate that the gentleman was deposed of his position with the WalMart company..Perhaps he should just sue them for unfair labor practices. Anyway, if you read this, as an act of solidarity with a person who is getting the stick from a bullying entity it might be good if we all just stop buying from WalMart, if you haven't already.They are first on the list of chain stores that are negligent to the laws concerning overtime, injury and medical claims, harassment, and product origin..Yeah, they obviously have their act together; they do offer jobs, they donate money and products to the local community, etc. But they also look at labor as an expendable and easily replaced resource should there be any minor insurrections. It would help the man who was fired if we just stop going to WalMart.It can show what happens to bullies who get confronted. .Well, I'm new to this website so I'll stop yammering and finish with this...TOTAL BOYCOTT!

It is unfortunate that this man who legally had the right to use cannabis for health reasons, lost his job. I have noticed when hired, employers usually ask what medications you take, the doctor you see, and send you in for a pre-employment physical, drug test etc. I am just wondering if Walmart follows this policy. I am sure they do pre-employment drug screening. And if the state has decriminalized marijuana, then that should be the policy each employer must be aware of and consider when employing legal users.

I do think they should rehire him, sounds like he was a asset to their store,not a liability, as they have suggested by firing him. But personally, I wouldn't want to have to set foot in that store again,maybe he will have the opportunity, and do it just to prove a point;that he is a good worker, fighting major illnesses, and is trying to continue to have as normal of a life as possible with the help of marijuana. Would they be so concerned if he was prescribed, morphine, oxycontin and all the other powerful legal opiates, usually prescribed to chronic pain sufferers?

he should find a better job, walmart is a dead-end job, it use to be good, befor sam walton died, then his greedy kids fucked it all up, i stop shopping there.

What hypocrisy! These comments some of you respondents have made is utterly disgusting. Should Wal-Mart rehire the man? Of course! But Unfortunatley we live in whats called the corporate world and Wal-mart like many others has a very strict no tolerance policy. Are you gonna stop going to the grocery store because an employee there who smoked marijuana be it recreationlly or medicinally gets fired? No because if ya did you woudnt be eating!!! Hell being in California, a very marijuana-friendly state the same rules apply. Should marijuana be decriminalized?, Yes of course but until it is, each of us has a responsibility in the work place and if your employer doesnt allow a medical marijuana exception why dont you go and ask them First off Why and than put you in the company owners shoes! I know i sure dont wanna pay out money cause of someone fucking themselves up while high. And not saying all of us who smoke are stupid, but it is the select few that are not very bright who are smoking "to be cool" that ruin it for the rest of us. As far as the JEW BASTARD comments, who cares about a persons religion, im sure ya aint complaining when ya stop and see Apu and Habib on your way to work at the 7-11 when ya get your coffee. (at least not to their faces) Stand up, stop crying, and realize that decriminalization needs to happen first. Instead of putting so much effort into reading hightimes.com try putting it into a constructive decriminalization rally in the towns u are in. And will 250,000 people not going to walmart one preset day hurt Wal-marts bottom line? Nah!!

BOYCOTT, legal action, and that's what we do from now on.
We as pot smoking Americans will no longer put up with the Jewish owned Walmart company bullshit, sue the damn store and make an example of them. Boycott indeed, and we all across american will support such boycotts.

AND THE LAW SAID, "Ya got to have a membership card to smoke that weed, FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES, that's the NEW LAW AT WORK, and it's working in the best interest of us all.

Here's another good ideal, all fellow employee's need to get together and have a massive sick-day-call-in, where everyone decides to call in sick on a predetermed day.
AND THEY CAN'T FIRE ANYONE CAUSE IT'S CONSIDERED A SICK DAY. Let the jew bastards chew on that one for a few days.

This is the type of action we cau use to promote our cause, and support our fellow workers in the work place.
If they don't want to support our cause then we can shut them down, for at least a day or maybe two.

P O T H E A D S U N I T E, now we got them on the run.
And this is just the beginning, we've got millions of people who will supoort our cause.

MARIJUANA FREEDOM FIGHTERS OF AMERICAN, united for the cause, medical marijuana freedom for all.

Our strength is in numbers, massive call-in-sick-days clear across the country. It's time we send these people a message, they can NO longer refuse.

The change is coming, we just need to kick it in the ass to speed up the process.

If you get arrested for pot possion, THE ONLY WORDS THAT SHOULD COME OUT OF YOU MOUTH IS: I want to talk to a lawyer, then don't say another word, till your lawyer gets there. You have the right to remain silent, and that's the BEST THING FOR YOU TO DO. ( best advice )*

In Michigan, sending someone for a drug test when they get hurt on the job is standard procedure. If the company finds drugs, you're quickly fired, with no recourse for your injuries. The man who was fired has protections under the law, when the dust settles, walmart will be paying him all his back pay and then some.

All about the New World Order SCUM......

WELCOME TO MY WORLD !!!!!!


"THE PLASTIC FILLED TEMPLE OF COMMERCE"
AKA "WAL-MART"

SOON THE DAY WILL COME WHEN THE GOVERNMENT DECLARES THAT., WAL-MART "IS" A MONOPOLY., AND DEMANDS IT BE TAKEN OVER BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BECAUSE OF GRIEVOUS FINANCIAL PROBLEMS THREATENING AMERICANS ACCESS TO CHEAP FOREIGN PRODUCTS AND ALL THE JOBS THAT WILL BE LOST DUE TO THE CHEAP FORIEGN FORCED LABOR AND THE RESTRUCTURING DURING THE BANKRUPTCEY HEARINGS.

DO YOU WANT TO SHOP FOR AFFORDABLE GOODS AND SERVICES?
I BET YOU DO!! BUT YOU WILL HAVE TO GET THE STATE IDENTIFICATION CARD FIRST!!!!
THIS WILL ALLOW YOU TO DO ALL YOUR BANKING AND MONEY TRANSACTIONS IN THE NEW GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED BANKS ELECTRONICALY OF COURSE!!
THE GOVERNMENT WILL KNOW WHERE EVERY DOLLAR GOES!!!!!

TO BIG TO FAIL!!!!! THE PLASTIC FILLED TEMPLE OF COMMERCE!!

A WAL-MART NEAR YOU IS GOING TO FAIL SOON AND WHEN IT DOES THEY WILL COME FOR YOUR MONEY AND YOUR FREEDOM JUST LIKE THE HEALTH CARE PEOPLE AND THE TAX MAN!!!!!


REMEMBER THE CANNARY IN THE COAL MINE???

A LITTLE THING.., THAT SAYS A LOT WHEN IT PASSES OUT FROM TOXIC AIR.

I FEEL A LOT OF TOXIC AIR AND IT COMES FROM WALL MART AND ITS PLASTIC FILLED CHAMBERS OF CHEAP CHINESE CRAP!!!!!!

BUY AMERICAN AND IF YOU CAN'T MAKE IT YOUR SELF AND MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS SELLING IT TO MILLIONS OF PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO ARE PISSED OFF AT THE CHEAP PLASTIC CRAP OUR BIG BUISSNESMEN HAVE PUSHED ON US FOR WAY TO LONG!!!!!

SCREW WAL-MART!!!!
"THE PLASTIC FILLED TEMPLE OF COMMERCE"

IT MUST BE STOPPED!!!!!

BUY AMERICAN!!!!! DEMAND AMERICAN PRODUCTS AND SERVICES!!!!!


GROW YOUR OWN, FREE YOUR MIND, FREE THE PLANET!!!!!!!!

Boycott Wal-Mart, all they sell is cheap chinese crap anyways, and it's jerry springer white trash heaven in there. i never shop at the place anymore because they treat workers and customers like crap. it's a place of food stamp low rent trash, and they are right wing conservative drug war swine on top of that. if you shop at places like wal-mart you are helping to destroy america and you are getting defective made in china crapola products. F wal-mart!!

that is absolutey disgusting, no one in their right mind would buy sam's choice peanut butter cups. You need some serious help with your "munchies" choices.




mmmmmmm... Reeses

i know from experience you cant collect unemployment after being fired for a failed drug test....maybe disability with all his health problems but a full time job is alot better.

@Mark the bugler fuck that. im sure he rather be workin then gettin 210 a week from unemployment.

I agree with wants to help but can't. How many employers hire functional alcoholics, many who come to work hung over, but fire or do not employ pot smokers because of the subsidized discrimination of the federal government?

It's just not fucking fair.

Other than their business practices(low-balling manufacturers prices, importing 99.99% of their products from China, giving workers 34 hours a week to avoid paying benefits) this story is just another reason I will not shop at Wal-Mart.

That's just wrong!

FUCK WALMART. I go stoned to work everyday (and school) and Im the ONLY one for the past 6 months whos employee of the month! So suck it. I also get all A's. Booya!
WALMART SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN, SO LETS DO IT.

Well State's (California)
medical marijuana
laws do not apply to Wal -Mart's
drug
policies (or
any other
companies who drug test for that matter)
who have
a stupid "zero tolerance" rule
for illegal
substances at
the
workplace. That's

another fight. Cost
the state
money and
ties up the court system. Too early
for that. Make
it legal
first.Then

tie up the court system.

untill you get a knee-injury .

I work at Wal-Mart.I blaze every day.I'm cool.

I have watched as known alcoholics come to work hung over, yet still have their jobs. No laws against drinking a 5th then going to work the next morning. I guess those fucking retards dont think thats dangerous. I once smoked until I passed out. Went to work the next day, alert, awake, and on top of my game. Oh, but thats against the law. Where are we? I thought we were smarter then this. I have no health ins.(unemployed and full time student) and I m not suppose to smoke a little on the weekends. WTF?

I'll still buy my Sam's Choice PREMIUM Peanut Butter cups.There's none better!!!!Munchies.

How about steering most of that energy towards writing a couple e-mails toward legislation that you support.You'll be making a change,and don't you think you'll feel better!
THIS is positive change.
This story is just a marker along the highway as we merrily roll along to let us know a lil' of where things are.You keep rollin'.

I WILL NOT SHOP AT WAL-MART! But let's get down there anyways to do a flashmob; all be there at 420 and light up!Bring your bongs and spliff and rain gear and smoke them out, let's test their sprinkler-system. As a recreational cannabis user i totally support medical users for whom there should be no costs because it's criminal to charge people for medicine that can be produced for free!Getting fired for it is a disgrace!

Boycotting is not enough, be active. I went to walmart to create a mess and then use 4chan coupons to steal about 20$ worth of stuff

Repeat after me.

"I will NOT shop at walmart. I will NOT shop at walmart. I will NOT shop at walmart. I will NOT shop at walmart. I will NOT shop at walmart. I will NOT shop at walmart. I will NOT shop at walmart. I will NOT shop at walmart. I will NOT shop at walmart. I will NOT shop at walmart. I will NOT shop at walmart. I will NOT shop at walmart".

Nuff said????

marijuana policy project is back! i thought they were busy fighting over the employee scandal.

So like they fire this guy and than say it is actually in his best interest? So like he was working to hard and than he injured his knee? So like they give him unemployment money because that will cost less money than a lawsuit? I think someone else at WAL-MART should get fired for a damn good reason and that spokesperson needs to grow a brain and a heart and sue WAL-MART for having to say things that are not true and are harmfull towards a fellow worker that doesn't deserve to be fired for a bullshit reason

the only way WAL-MART is going changing it's attitude is if a judge would hit them with a 10 million dollar fine for treating a working person like shit for no reason and for breaking the law.Some cowardly people at WAL-MART hope this will blow over.Let's stick together on this one;visit WAL-MART wearing a Joseph Casias EMPLOYEE OF THE CENTURY t-shirt, buying nothing and demand to speak to the manager and let them know we are not accepting WAL-MART's anti-social behaviour.Is this going to be a RIGHTSversusA BIG BAG OF MONEY let's make a deal kind of lawsuit or are we going to root out this evil?

if we dont stick together on this how is anything going to change. It does not matter if he is getting unployment or not what they did at wal-mart was wrong.

Wal-Mart did make a small concession by agreeing to pay this man unemployment.

FUCK WAL-MART !!!!!

Did you know that our founding fathers smoked weed? they made it illegal not to grow, and our founding fathers wrote about all the great benefits of marijuana. Even its medicinal uses, Washington and Jefferson loved marijuana, Jefferson ever wrote about how is favorite activity was to smoke his marijuana pipe then walk up the hillside to see the and land our fouders had conquered.

We no longer live in the free country our founding fathers intended for us, its time to restore the Constitution. We must learn the truth about the Private Illegal Federal Reserve and how it prints money out of thin-air. Learn the truth watch this movie! This one breaks down how the federal reserve and income tax are illegal.

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BABYLON IS CRUMBLING!

So I wonder would it be the same if he was taking narcotics like oxycontin? both are perscried drugs after all. Walmart needs to get with the times and do some research.

i think society should give stoners a honest chance to prove they are not a danger! and customers don't need to be protected from the children of the bong, we are no children of the corn!or some other harmfull abusive sect.Some of us are a bit like the cable guy but we've got them in check, no problemo,But seriously they should have this WAL-MART megastore exclusivly run by stoners for like a year or so, than evaluate and compare salesnumbers , i think they are in for a big suprise!All stoner WAL-MART customers should ask for the manager and confront him with some persuasive arguments to actually realise this proposal!And growerssupplies should be added to the list of items available at WAL-MART!And most definately a BONG-section with everthing from grinders to bongcleaner and vaporisers which can be sitetested ofcourse.And in the Coffee-Corner they sell the most delicious POT-brownies, yes customer satisfaction is our prime directive!

If WAL-MART was smart, they'd sell growstuff, seeds and marijuana,..but they don't so i take my fat wallet someplace , to smart people who sell quality items, no WALL-MART-CRAP

Well, make that an international boycott and if i were Casias i don't know if i would that job back after being treated that way. This company had nothing on him before ,even better, his efforts on the workfloor didn't go by unnoticed, maybe a reason for a rival company to aquire this excellent worker(performing above average despite serious injury).WALL (S)MART?, i don't think so.