New Jersey’s Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will consider whether or not a Ridgewood funeral home discriminated against one of its employees in 2016 for using medical cannabis.
In Wild v. Carriage Funeral Holdings, plaintiff Justin Wild alleged that his employer fired him after he tested positive for cannabis when drug tested following a car accident.
Wild, a cancer patient, was prescribed cannabis as part of his treatment. The case raises the question of whether or not an employer must accommodate medical cannabis use under New Jersey’s Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act.