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Marijuana legalization raises HR questions

Until the federal law is changed, employers in states that allow some form of marijuana use are caught in the unique legal limbo thats created when state law allows something and federal law prohibits it.

By Amber Taufen | Updated on July 02, 2014
(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, file)

When states first began legalizing medical marijuana in the mid- to late 1990s, not many people would have guessed that in fewer than 20 years, the substance would be decriminalized in 16 states, fully legal for adult use in two and approved for medical use in 22.

There’s a lot of overlap among those states, but between the states with decriminalization statutes on the books and those that have legalized marijuana for medical use, more than half of the states in the country have enacted laws that somewhat or fully protect adults who use marijuana.

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