Three former employees at Om of Medicine have filed wrongful termination claims as their colleagues still working at the dispensary attempt to unionize. Conine, Om’s community outreach coordinator, said that staff were initially told that 4Front would preserve Om’s mission in serving the community, but at some point things began to change. In response, Om’s employees began the effort to unionize with the United Food Workers' cannabis division. The shop abruptly closed for the rest of the day, resulting in a picket by the three women and some current Om employees outside its Main St. location. When A4 reached out to Om’s local management for comment, they said they cannot comment publicly on specific employment and HR matters while legal proceedings are ongoing.

ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan researcher Daniel Kruger has partnered with cannabis provisioning center Om of Medicine to conduct a nationwide study assessing the patient-doctor relationship with regard to cannabis use and people's experience using medical marijuana. Kruger, an academic researcher with two decades of experience in the public health field, is relatively new to cannabis. His frustration with the abstinence-only stance public health takes on cannabis led him to pursue studies on the topic. "If public health is like a broken record of 'marijuana is bad' and then all of a sudden the policy changes and it's legal it's a big deal." The Institutional Review Board-approved study is the third study Om of Medicine is conducting with Kruger, whose research is survey-based.