SJC Case Spotlights Worker’s Off-Duty Use of ‘Medical Pot’

On March 2, 2017, Tamsin Kaplan was quoted in the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly article, “SJC case spotlights worker’s off-duty use of ‘medical pot’.” The article discusses an anticipated Supreme Judicial Court decision in Barbuto v. Advantage Sales & Marketing, LLC, et al., in which questions of whether the state’s legalization of medical marijuana in 2012 carries with it employment protections for a patient’s use of the drug outside the workplace will be addressed. Read the article in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (subscription required).