{"id":50022,"date":"2020-07-05T19:41:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T19:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/?post_type=faqs&#038;p=50022"},"modified":"2020-07-05T19:42:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T19:42:31","slug":"my-employee-has-a-prescription-for-marijuana-can-i-fire-the-employee-for-a-positive-drug-test-for-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"faqs","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/faqs\/medical-marijuana-a-drug-free-workplace\/my-employee-has-a-prescription-for-marijuana-can-i-fire-the-employee-for-a-positive-drug-test-for-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"My employee has a prescription for marijuana, can I fire the employee for a positive drug test for marijuana?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There\u2019s no such thing as a prescription for marijuana because it\u2019s not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.&nbsp; Individuals with one of the qualifying medical conditions under a States\u2019 marijuana laws are given a recommendation for medical use by a certified physician.&nbsp; Before firing anyone, employers should take a look at their drug free workplace policy.&nbsp; Medical marijuana should be addressed in every employer drug testing policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/marijuana-in-the-workplace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">More on Marijuana in the Workplace<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs\/50022"}],"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\/50022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}