COLUMBUS – Ohio employers can reportedly fire employees who use medical marijuana or refuse to hire them in the first place.
Medical marijuana is legal in Ohio, but it remains illegal at the federal level and The Columbus Dispatch reports that, under Ohio law, employers don’t have to hire someone who uses medical marijuana and they don’t have to keep an employee that tests positive.
Attorneys told the newspaper that employees terminated due to their employer’s drug policies can’t sue their employers and those fired under drug-free workplace policies are ineligible for unemployment benefits.