Norton Rose Fulbright, is an International Law Firm, and through their Global Work Place Insider, they blogged on a Provincial Court of Nova Scotia decision on Medical Marijuana:
“On January 30, 2017, a Board of Inquiry, formed as part of the Provincial Court of Nova Scotia, issued its decision in Skinner v. Board of Trustees of the Canadian Elevator Industry Welfare Trust Fund, which found that the denial of an employee’s request for coverage of medical marijuana under a health benefit plan amounted to discrimination under the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act.”
On February 28, 2017, an article came out through Benefits Canada speaking to research out of the University of British Columbia in favour of patients on Medical Marijuana.
There is no doubt this is a topic of conversation around the boardrooms of the Insurance Companies and I will continue to follow the progress.
Let’s keep the conversation going. How will this affect your work environment? After being illegal for so many years, how do we shift our paradigm to be comfortable with employees smoking or digesting pot at their place or work?