Law’s Sharona Hoffman and Jonathan Entin explain why employees can still be fired for smoking marijuana

Can smoking weed get me fired? We answer your employment questions about recreational marijuana

WEWSSharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, and Jonathan Entin, the David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law, explained why employees can still be fired for smoking marijuana—even when they’re off the clock. “Just because your state makes it legal to use marijuana does not mean that employers don’t have the power to say ‘we don’t want our employees using it or coming to work after using it and we can fire them,’” Hoffman said.