{"id":8391,"date":"2018-07-17T23:08:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T23:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=3138488&amp;preview_id=3138488"},"modified":"2018-07-17T23:08:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T23:08:50","slug":"colorado-denies-widow-half-of-late-husbands-workers-compensation-due-to-his-marijuana-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/colorado-denies-widow-half-of-late-husbands-workers-compensation-due-to-his-marijuana-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado denies widow half of late husband\u2019s workers\u2019 compensation due to his marijuana use"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/colorado-denies-widow-half-of-late-husbands-workers-compensation-due-to-his-marijuana-use\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/colorado-denies-widow-half-of-late-husbands-workers-compensation-due-to-his-marijuana-use.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>DENVER \u2014 The state of Colorado is denying half the workers\u2019 compensation death benefits to a woman whose husband died while working on a ski lift because he had marijuana in his system.<\/p>\n<p>KMGH-TV reports Erika Lee\u2019s husband, Adam Lee, was crushed to death in December underneath a ski escalator in Loveland.<\/p>\n<p>Erika says she\u2019s frustrated the system is saying \u201cbecause he smoked a legal substance, we are going to take away your benefits from you and your kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n<p>Colorado law allows state workers\u2019 compensation companies to cut benefits by 50 percent if tests return positive for marijuana or any other controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p>Erika plans to appeal the decision by Pinnacol Assurance, a quasi-state workers\u2019 compensation agency, to cut her benefits. A hearing is scheduled before an administrative law judge in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Information from: KMGH-TV, http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>The state of Colorado is denying half the workers&#8217; compensation death benefits to a woman whose husband died while working on a ski lift because he had marijuana in his system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,6813,7935,77,5667,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6816,6818,7936,2655,5673,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}