An employer’s refusal to waive its drug test requirement for a forklift driver using medical marijuana was not discriminatory, a federal judge in Camden has ruled.

New Jersey’s Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act shields qualifying users from criminal prosecution and certain civil penalties, but it does not obligate employers to allow employees to use medical marijuana, U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler said Aug. 10 in granting a motion by defendant Ardagh Glass Packing Inc. to dismiss the plaintiff’s disability discrimination suit.