A second-grade teacher at an elementary school in Florida who’s been registered as a medical-marijuana user for more than a year is facing charges of violating the district’s drug-free workplace policy and fired after a test showed the drug in her system.
I wasn’t doing anything wrong in my mind, she told an Orlando news station. I had a prescription for it just like every other prescription from a doctor.
But school district officials where she’s taught for four years saw it differently: Any employee who tests positive to a controlled substance, as defined in our drug-free workplace policy, they said in a statement, is subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination.
