🗄 Jersey City cops who used legal weed off-duty were offered other civil service jobs 🚫 Previous mayor said federal law bans cannabis users from legally carrying guns 🏛 Appellate court says the officers should never have been fired
JERSEY CITY — Two off-duty police officers who used legal cannabis should never have been fired, a state appellate panel recently ruled on a years-long case in Hudson County.
New Jersey made recreational cannabis legal in 2021, with the signing of the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Enforcement Assistance and Marketplace Modernization Act.
Part of the law bans employers from taking any adverse action against any employee solely for testing positive for cannabis…