{"id":50009,"date":"2020-07-05T19:35:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T19:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/?post_type=faqs&#038;p=50009"},"modified":"2020-07-05T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T19:36:00","slug":"can-my-employer-fire-me-for-smoking-medical-marijuana-or-recreational-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"faqs","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/faqs\/medical-marijuana-a-drug-free-workplace\/can-my-employer-fire-me-for-smoking-medical-marijuana-or-recreational-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Can my employer fire me for smoking medical marijuana or recreational marijuana?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yes, perhaps your employer can fire you for smoking medical marijuana or recreational marijuana.&nbsp; If it is a DOT regulated test for your job as a transportation covered employee, you can be terminated for smoking medical marijuana or recreational marijuana.&nbsp; In addition, several of the State laws specifically have language do not prohibit employers from having policies that consider testing positive for marijuana a violation of company policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, there have been several court cased where the employer rights have been upheld and medical marijuana smoking employees have been terminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Employers should take a careful look at drug free workplace policies to determine if medical marijuana or recreational marijuana are addressed.&nbsp; At National Drug Screening, we engage the services of expert consultants to write company drug free workplace policies.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs\/50009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faqs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs\/50009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}