1. Coats was fired for violating workplace policy, not because he was using a legal drug, marijuana. 

2. Employees have a right to take their anxiety medications without risk of losing their job

3. Despite marijuana being legal, just like alcohol, employers will still fire you for the use of it.

4. Coats was dealing with daily pain with marijuana, and should not have been fired because of it.

5. Coats experienced spasms, which is why he smokes marijuana, and it is unfair to discriminate against him because of that.

6. Coats was smoking marijuana on his own time, so it had no effect on his coworkers.

BACKGROUND FOR 7-10: The director of the Secret Service ordered an internal review of its security procedures around the White House after a man armed with a knife who jumped the fence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on Friday night managed to make his way through the front door of President Obama’s home before being stopped, officials said Saturday.

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

7. The swift actions of the Secret Service agents quickly put a stop to Omar Gonzalez’s trespassing.

8. The Secret Service is more worried about how the breach occurred, rather than how quickly they stopped it.

9.Despite Secret Service chief Julia Pierson’s incompetence, she is likely to lose her job.

10. Since the intruder’s weapon was only a 4-inch blade, the agents did not feel the need to use deadly force.