By: Ed Mahon for Spotlight PA
Our months-long investigation into employment protections for medical marijuana patients began with an email about a failed drug test.
After a drug screening indicated he had used marijuana, Philadelphia Gas Works employee Todd Douglas told me he faced a troubling choice: Give up a doctor-approved drug that provided pain relief, or risk his job. As our reporting explained, Douglas fought the drug test and won. Other medical marijuana patients weren’t so lucky.