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AMRRP has received numerous requests for information about PROP 207 and COVID-19 vaccinations.  In order to get you as much information as possible, we have arranged for a Risk Management Roundtable featuring Steve Coleman and Christina Estes- Werther.  Staff will also share two new HR Sentry templates developed in regards to the administration of COVID-19 vaccines. HR Sentry is available to all AMRRP Members, free of cost.

We are attaching below a brief summary of Prop 207, in order to give some basic information between now and the Webinar.

• On November 3, 2020, voters approved Proposition 207, also known as the “Smart and Safe Arizona Act,” which was effective on November 30, 2020. The law legalizes the possession and consumption of recreational marijuana by allowing adults 21 years of age or older to use, possess, or transfer up to one ounce of marijuana and cultivate for personal use not more than six marijuana plants at a primary residence.
• Prop 207 does not restrict the rights of employers to maintain a drug-and-alcohol workplace, to have workplace policies that restrict marijuana use by employees or prospective employees, or to otherwise prohibit or regulate conduct allowed by Prop 207 when such conduct is on or in the employer’s property.
• Prop 207 does not limit any privilege or right of a qualifying patient or designated caregiver under the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act (AMMA) and those provisions remain in effect. While AMMA provides that a qualifying patient or designated caregiver cannot be discriminated against based on certain conditions, Prop 207 does not grant employment protections to recreational marijuana users. Therefore, existing workplace policies that prohibit drugs or alcohol likely do not require changes in light of Prop 207. Updates are only necessary if an employer seeks to allow marijuana use or possession on the employer’s property.

Speakers

Christina Estes-Werther is Of Counsel at Pierce Coleman PLLC. Christina’s public law practice includes matters involving open meeting law, conflict of interest, public records, land use, government contracts, and state legislation. As a former State Election Director for the State of Arizona and a current certified election officer, Christina has extensive experience in election law, including campaign finance and election administration.

Steve Coleman is a founding member of Pierce Coleman PLLC.  His practice focuses on the representation of management-side clients in all facets of employment law, involving alleged violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, the Equal Protection Clause, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and state law discrimination and retaliation statutes.