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Walmart Fires Cancer Patient for Legally Using Medical Marijuana

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 12, 2010.  Joseph Casias, 29, has sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor.

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Despite his condition, he has dutifully gone to work every day for the last five years at a Walmart in Battle Creek, Michigan, where in 2008 he was named Associate of the Year.

Casias is also a legal medical marijuana patient under Michigan state law. He uses marijuana with the recommendation of his doctor to relieve the effects of cancer.

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