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Prescriptions for medicinal cannabis are on the rise, and while some products don't have the psychoactive effects of others, they could still impair a person's fitness for work, a lawyer warns.

The risk, in the absence of any formal work health and safety guidelines, puts employers with safety-critical roles in a difficult position, Holding Redlich partner Louise Hogg tells HR Daily.

Medicinal cannabis can be obtained easily from prescription services, meaning there's potentially no meaningful doctor-patient consultation or ongoing therapeutic relationship, Hogg explains.

"And where the medical professionals can't provide that guarantee that that person is safe for work, then that really gives you your answer," she says...