Quote Originally Posted by colagal
I certainly understand your concerns. If your employer somehow sees you on TV advocating mmj, and subsequently takes an adverse employment action against you because of your opinion and/or medical situation, your employer can be liable for retaliation and discrimination. You are exercising your First Amendment rights to speak. Since it is a city council meeting, you have to be present to be heard....may have to get on the agenda though.

Nonetheless, the fact that you (and probably others) are afraid to speak out further enables and reinforces the prejudices that abound.

Hopefully, there will be mmj representatives/organizations at this meeting, like Sensible Colorado, who will speak on behalf of the many. Contacting them may be an indirect way to get involved.
Actually, it would be very difficult to pursue a wrongful termination case in Colorado under the fact situation you describe unless the employer is a government agency. As Colorado is a "hire and fire at will" state, and strongly so at that, the employer only has to give no reason for the termination, or an unrelated one ( the economy comes to mind) in order to insulate themselves from liability. Only if the employer was stupid enough to actually put in writing that the termination was for exercising a protected right could one prevail.

Worse yet in this case is the fact that a private employer, at least in Colorado, can legally terminate an employee for exercising one's first amendment rights. Wrongful termination is a tough row to hoe in Colorado.
senorx12562 Reviewed by senorx12562 on . the devil's details Still trying to get a grasp on the growing/cultivating details and how it fits into the regulatory proposals....according to the definitions in the proposed Denver City ordinance to be considered at a public hearing on Jan 11: "Medical Marijuana dispensary means a business that sells or otherwise distributes marijuana through one or more primary care-givers to six (6) or more patients for medical use, along with any cultivation of marijuana associated with such sale or distribution. The term Rating: 5