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Alyssa Feliciano and April Rubin
Fresh Take Florida
The first time Allison Enright, a Brevard County teacher, fell at work, doctors prescribed her opioids to deal with the pain.
During the year that followed her fall, she saw her body start to deteriorate. When the prescription medicines and physical therapy didn’t work, a workers compensation doctor recommended she use medical marijuana to avoid using a wheelchair.
She describes the drug as her miracle.
The second time the Space Coast Junior and Senior High teacher fell at work – a student pushed her in the hallway during the pandemic – she disclosed under her workers’ compensation plan that she used medical cannabis for pain management.
Medical marijuana prescription puts woman’s professional license at risk
Jake Stofan, Tallahassee corespondent
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Advocates are hoping 2021 will bring employment protections for the state’s nearly half-million medical marijuana patients.
Megan Kahn graduated with a degree in social work last year. She got her professional license soon after and, around the same time, was prescribed medical marijuana. Then she got a job offer in her field.
“I sent in all my documentation. I sent in a picture of my card and my prescription. Everything,” said Kahn.
But the job offer was revoked when THC showed up in her drug test.