(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Five employees of the Illinois Department of Public Health are accused of setting up a fake "yearbook" with photos of medical cannabis users and mocking them with derisive captions.
It was the executive inspector general for the governor's state agencies that revealed the so-called yearbook, comprised of a photos that medical marijuana users sent in when they registered for an ID card.
The inspector general says employees put together a binder called the "Medical Cannabis Yearbook," with eight pages of patients' photos that had been sent in, plus "demeaning captions, resulting in the mockery of patients."
Captions included, "Why the long face?" and "Happy Holidaze."
The inspector general says the head of the medical cannabis division, Myles Willingham, was one of five state employees involved.
The state public health department says Willingham and another employee no longer work for the department and that three others have been disciplined.
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