florida government agencies can't fire workers for off-duty medical marijuana use under new bill  new legislation in florida would protect medical marijuana patients from discrimination in government jobs by preventing agencies from punishing public workers based solely on their legal use of cannabis. the bill, hb 83, was introduced on friday by rep. mitch rosenwald (d). it would bar public employers from taking actions such as firing workers, refusing to hire a qualified applicant or demoting employees based on their medical marijuana use or registration. a public employer may consider an employees ability to perform his or her job duties or responsibilities to be impaired if the employee displays specific, articulable symptoms while working which adversely affect the performance of his or her duties or responsibilities, the legislation says. public employers would also need to give written notice to employees and applicants informing them of their right to explain or contest a positive marijuana test result within a five-day period after receiving the result. law enforcement agencies could also continue to restrict even off-duty medical marijuana use by police officers. a separate bill introduced this time last year, the public employee protection act (sb 166), similarly would would have protected state employees against adverse employment action for legally using medical marijuana. that measure was sponsored by democratic state sen. tina polsky. the court ruled that the county cannot discriminate against workers with medical marijuana cards who test positive for the drug and must provide reasonable accommodationsso long as theres no evidence that the employee was high at work or consumed the cannabis on county property or in a county vehicle. >  orida-government-agencies-couldnt-f ire-workers-for-off-duty-medical-ma rijuana-use-under-new-bill/
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