Amy Dannemiller dabbled in the pot biz and lost her day job as result

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Amy Dannemiller had to resign her job as an event planner with a corporation that didn't approve of her televised use of marijuana. (Cyrus McCrimmon, Denver Post file photo). Denver businesswoman … "It was curt but polite," said Dannemiller, who has …
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Should employers be buzzing about Portland's marijuana ordinance?

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In fact, before Colorado's statewide legalization of marijuana, the city of Denver had an ordinance similar to Portland's, and when employees challenged their employers' continued ban on marijuana, the employers routinely won. In particular, any …
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Marijuana, fine, but leave medicine out of it

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It is addictive; the U.S. National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 1 in 12 people who used marijuana last year were addicted to it. This places it between alcohol (1 in 21) and tobacco (1 in 3). Yet these drugs are legal. Marijuana can impair …
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Oops! She dabbled in the pot biz and lost her day job as result

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“It was curt but polite,” said Dannemiller, who has a master's in social work from the University of Denver and still asks that her new friends and colleagues call her Jane. “I violated the drug policy on national television, and that's completely …
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