{"id":19031,"date":"2017-08-30T13:24:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T21:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/30\/maryland-mmj-licensee-faces-federal-discrimination-suit\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T12:51:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T20:51:16","slug":"maryland-mmj-licensee-faces-federal-discrimination-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/30\/maryland-mmj-licensee-faces-federal-discrimination-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland MMJ licensee faces federal discrimination suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The owner of a recently licensed medical marijuana dispensary in Maryland is under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalgazette.com\/news\/for_the_record\/ac-cn-eeoc-lawsuit-folo-0830-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal investigation<\/a> for workplace discrimination stemming from a previous business, a situation the\u00a0state\u2019s embattled medical marijuana commission had no knowledge of.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Capital Gazette, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court alleging that David Podrog \u2013 owner of Advanced Alternative Therapies near Baltimore \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalgazette.com\/news\/for_the_record\/ac-cn-edgewater-eeoc-suit-0829-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discriminated against Hispanic employees<\/a> of an Annapolis car wash under his ownership.<\/p>\n<p>The federal complaint alleges that Podrog and a partner forced Hispanic employees to work as servants at<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/maryland-medical-marijuana-licensee-faces-federal-discrimination-suit\/\">Maryland MMJ licensee faces federal discrimination suit<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/maryland-medical-marijuana-licensee-faces-federal-discrimination-suit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland MMJ licensee faces federal discrimination suit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of a recently licensed medical marijuana dispensary in Maryland is under federal investigation for workplace discrimination stemming from a previous business, a situation the\u00a0state\u2019s embattled medical marijuana commission had no knowledge of. According to the Capital Gazette, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/30\/maryland-mmj-licensee-faces-federal-discrimination-suit\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1423,443,474],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19032,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19031\/revisions\/19032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}