(WKYT) – For today’s Good Question, Rose asks: How will this affect our jobs when you work in jobs that have never been for marijuana?

The new law may make it legal for medical cardholders to use cannabis, but that doesn’t change anything when it comes to employers.

The Kentucky Office of Medical Cannabis tells patients, “You can be dismissed from your job for using medical cannabis onsite if your employer does not allow it. Your employer can restrict its use in the workplace and may take action if it poses a safety risk. Violating workplace policies could impact unemployment and other benefits.”

State law says employers are not required to permit or accommodate cannabis use:

“1) nothing in this chapter shall: (a) require an employer to permit or accommodate the use, consumption, possession, transfer, display, transportation, distribution, sale, or growing of medicinal cannabis in the workplace.”

The law also says employers can restrict or prohibit the use of equipment, machinery, or power tools by an employee who is a registered qualified patient.

There are protected classes in Kentucky, covered by the Kentucky Civil Rights Act. Those include things like race, age, sex, and religion, but being a cannabis user is not covered.

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