A medical marijuana patient who was fired from her job back in 2020 for being intoxicated while at the office has won a big court battle.
The D.C. Office of Employee Appeals (OEA) recently ruled in the worker’s favour, reversing her termination and ordering the responsible parties to reimburse her for all back pay and benefits.
The worker explained her eyes could have been red due to lack of sleep and that, at the time, she was capable of doing her work properly. She said she hadn’t used cannabis on the day of the drug test, but that she had used it over the weekend before the drug test.
The worker then provided the necessary paperwork to show she was a medical marijuana patient.
“OUC was negligent in how it handled the process for reasonable suspicion of impairment from drugs,” noted Monica Dohnji, senior administrative judge for
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