“The ceiling falls in on me, and I get tested as a result of it… Now I have it in my system, and they’re going to cut my benefits by 50 percent. That is possible under this bill, correct?”
By Rebecca Rivas, Missouri Independent
If Missouri employees ask for workers’ compensation after an on-the-job injury, employers can require them to take a drug test for marijuana.
If they test positive—even if they hadn’t consumed marijuana for days—their compensation and death benefit may be reduced by 50 percent.
That didn’t change when Missouri legalized recreational marijuana because it’s still a controlled substance on a federal level, two Republican state lawmakers told a House committee Wednesday.
But if the federal government legalizes marijuana, “then people could literally smoke pot on the job in Missouri and there would be no prohibition against that,” attorney Bradley Young, a workers’ compensation attorney from Chesterfield, told The Independent Thursday morning.
Republican Reps. John Voss of Cape Girardeau and Sherri Gallick of Belton are trying to etch the current policy into state statute so it can remain in place if federal law changes.
They both said their legislation, drafted by Young, is meant to address intoxication on
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