What are the common misconceptions about taking medicinal cannabis and going to work?
ABCEarlier this year, a Brisbane man, whose job involved loading and unloading ship cargo, was fired after testing positive for THC in a random workplace drug test. And as Belinda Winter, a workplace relations and safety lawyer, tells ABC Radio National's The Law Report, the case demonstrates the gap between Australia's occupational health and safety laws and the use of medicinal marijuana. A Brisbane man lost an unfair dismissal claim against his shipping company employer after a random workplace drug test detected marijuana. "There's certainly been cases where people have had very high levels of in their system and they have failed a drug test," Winter says. "Sometimes employers take exception to the mere use of medicinal marijuana or the presence of THC, and that can give rise to a number of different claims — unfair dismissal being one of them and discrimination," she says.
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