Fired Medical Marijuana User Establishes Good-Faith Effort to Find Work

The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a medical marijuana user who was fired after testing positive for THC had engaged in a good-faith effort to find new employment and was entitled to temporary disability benefits. Although the injured worker's status as a valid medical marijuana user was initially raised as an objection to the award of benefits, that argument was dropped and the only question before the court was whether Carlos Martinez made a good-faith effort to find work. Martinez worked for Solutions Staffing. Before he was hired, Martinez signed an acknowledgm...