Can you get fired for using medical marijuana?

A year after Gov. John Kasich signed Ohio’s medical marijuana program into law, state regulators are starting to formalize how and where pot will be grown and available to medical patients.

One of the biggest questions: Can you get fired for using it?

Ohio law preserves employers’ rights to have a drug-free workplace, so companies can continue to prohibit employees from using medical marijuana.

Our I-Team Investigation found that federal employees are prohibited from using medical marijuana because under federal law, medical marijuana is illegal.

This would apply to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base employees and contractors. The same is true for Wright State University, which says in its policy that they are a federal contractor. Sinclair College is still silent on the issue.

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