In September 2018, the State of Ohio’s new law legalizing the use of medical marijuana goes into effect. The law does not:
- Require employers to accommodate an employee’s use, possession, or distribution of marijuana in the workplace
- Prohibit employers from disciplining, terminating, refusing to hire, or otherwise taking an adverse employment action because of that employee’s use, possession, or distribution of marijuana in the workplace
- Prohibit employers from establishing and enforcing a drug-testing policy, drug-free workplace policy, or zero-tolerance drug policy
- Interfere with federal laws, which still ban marijuana use, medical or otherwise
- Permit an employee to sue an employer for disciplining him or her for use, possession, or distribution of medical marijuana
- Allow an employee injured on the job while under the influence of marijuana to recover workers’ compensation benefits.
