Justices: Marijuana Not a Factor in Injury

While it is possible that a sheet metal worker's marijuana smoking may have slowed his reaction time, his work-related injury that occurred the next day is compensable because he didn't have any time to react, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled. In Interstate Mechanical Contractors Inc. v. McIntosh, E2006-01649-SC-R3-WC, 06/29/2007, the justices ruled that claimant Billy McIntosh proved that the proximate cause of his injury was another employee, not his illegal drug use. "Except for the new employee engaging the rollers while McIntosh was demonstrating how to use the machine to bend a ...