1. Coats wasn’t fired because he was using a legal drug, marijuana, for a legitimate purpose for which he had a prescription. He was fired for violating workplace policy.

Coats were fired for violating a workplace policy for using legal marijuana.

2. An employer isn’t able to fire a person who has anxiety because they are taking the correct medication to deal with the issue.

If an employee is taking medication to deal with their anxiety, the employer is not able to fire them for having anxiety. 

3. Employees don’t get fired for going out and having a few beers after work because alcohol is legal, but in Colorado so is marijuana.

In Colorado, alcohol is legal so if employees get a few beers after work, they cannot get fired.

4. Coats shouldn’t have been fired because he was trying to treat the pain he endured on a daily basis.

Coats was fired for treating pain he endures on a daily basis.

5. It’s not fair to discriminate against him because he was able to ease the pain of his multiple spasms by using marijuana.

Marijuana usage can help ease spasms for him, so it is not fair to discriminate against his well-being.

6. Coats wasn’t harming anyone at his job because he was smoking marijuana, but he was doing so on his own time and not at work.

Coats smoke marijuana in his own time so he was not harming anyone at work.

7. Omar Gonzalez didn’t penetrate deep into the White House because of the swift actions of Secret Service agents.

Omar Gonzalez failed to penetrate deep into the White House because of the swift actions of the Secret Service agents.

8. The Secret Service isn’t being compelled to explain its actions because of the way it responded to the breach of the White House, but how the breach occurred is under question.

The secret services requested to compel a response to the White House breach.  

9. Secret Service chief Julia Pierson won’t be fired because of her testimony before Congress yesterday. Her incompetence might cost her her job though.

Secret Service chief Julia Pierson’s incompetence during the testimony before congress might cost her job.

10. Secret Service agents didn’t use deadly force against the intruder because he was carrying a knife with a 4-inch blade.

Without using deadly force, secret services were able to stop the intruder since he was only caring a knife with a 4 – inch blade.