Coors has fired Paul Curry because he tested positive for marijuana. That’s not surprising, because he has a medical marijuana permit to use it. While Coors claims that it’s about safety, the political background of the Coors family leads one to suspect that’s not true.
Paul Curry is out of work. His unemployment claim hasn’t yet been ruled on. At least he still has his medical marijuana–of course that’s why MillerCoors fired him.
According to his attorney, Rob Corry, he uses medical marijuana because of two separate conditions. He has nausea as a result of hepatitis C and he has severe back pain because of an injury he suffered while at work–at MillerCoors.
Corry said that when Curry was involved in a minor non-injury accident at work a few months ago, he was tested for marijuana and the test came up positive.
Corry says his client will probably sue MillerCoors for discrimination. The constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana in Colorado states that employers do not have to make any accommodations to the use of medical marijuana while at work but is silent on the subject of use outside of work, according to Corry.
Corry says, however, that it is illegal to discriminate against an employee because of a disability. “This is a clear case of discrimination on the basis of a disability,” he says.
He says Curry had a good employment record with the company, where he had worked for seven years… [emphasis added]
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When I lived in Denver, I knew a member of the Coors family. She seemed to have no difficulty reconciling extreme Republican religious right views, that consider alcohol consumption the gateway to hell, with owing and being super-rich from a brewery. They were Republican stalwarts, and according to Wikipedia, they are members of the American Enterprise Institute, an extreme Neocon organization responsible for the Iraq war, and they provided the money to found the Heritage Foundation, the hateful people that wrote Paul Ryan’s budget.
Given these traits, I would strongly suggest that the human rights aspect of this case is valid.
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Simple. The Hearst family who’s fortune was threatened by hemp were the driving force behind the criminalization of marijuana. Similarly, the Coors family just hates competition.
It is pretty obvious, is it not? However, the Coors favor social engineering for it’s own sake as well.
Typical of a family who has supported the John Birch Society since Day One and ranks right up there with the Koch Bros. The one exception might be Peter Coors who is – or used to be – considered pretty moderate.
Peter wasn’t bad. Of course he was not the family member to who I referred, Leslie.
I hope he sues the shit out MillerCoors. The least they could do is give him unemployment. What assholes. Depending on his job, maryjane could be a problem (like driving a forklift for instance), but they could always give him a desk job were the maryjane wouldn’t be a problem. Instead they fired him for having a legal mj script. That’s a violation of his rights as a worker and his rights as a person. MJ is legal in the state of CO; they need to accept that. 😡
Exactly. A huge company like Coors has lots of jobs where it would not be an issue.
Those warriors that are fighting for medical marijuana are on a learning curve. Let’s hope they are taking notes and have a reasonable solution for this in the next bill. In the mean time we can support them by not drinking coors or any of its other products.
Murky, as a someone who neither smokes weed nor drinks, my boycott is meaningless, but I encourage others to boycott Coors. When I used to drink I stopped buying Coors long ago, because of their extreme right activism.