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On Tuesday afternoon, a Superior Court judge in Rhode Island sided with a medical marijuana user who claimed a company decided not to hire her solely for her choice in medicine.
Three years ago, in the summer of 2014, Christine Callaghan applied for an internship at Darlington Fabrics in Westerly, near where she was finishing her graduate studies in textiles at the University of Rhode Island. When the company learned that Callaghan was a medical marijuana patient in the Ocean State, they chose not to bring her aboard — even though they had already extended an offer of employment.
Callaghan was a medical marijuana patient in Rhode Island for about two years before applying to Darlington Fabrics, using the medicine to combat frequent migraine headaches. Callaghan assured Darlington representatives that, though she needs the medicine to live pain-free, she would refrain from ever bringing her medicine on company premises or using it before coming into work.
The Savannah College of Art and Design graduate, with some help from the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and pro bono Attorney Carly Beauvais Iafrate, sued Darlington Fabrics for…
