An Iowa educator who was fired after police found three pounds of marijuana at her home is entitled to jobless benefits, a judge has ruled. (Photo via Getty Images)
An Iowa educator who was fired after police found three pounds of marijuana at her home is entitled to jobless benefits, a judge has ruled.
According to state records, Amy Garrison-Perkins was employed by the Waterloo Community School District as a behavior interventionist at Expo Alternative High School earlier this year.
In September, police went to the school and served a search warrant on Garrison-Perkins in connection with a search of her home. Garrison-Perkins allegedly informed the district’s chief human resources officer that she had a medical-marijuana card, officially known as a Medical Cannabidiol Registration Card, and that because it was too expensive to legally purchase the product from vendors, she was growing marijuana at home.
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Garrison-Perkins allegedly told district officials she was authorized to have four grams of medical marijuana in connection with her medical prescription, but that law enforcement had removed three pounds of marijuana from her home.
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