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 was fired not for using marijuana, one of the banned substances, but because coats was fired for violating company employment policy.

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 a person is sick, he should take medicine, but if it is the right medicine to treat illness, treat anxiety, the owner has no reason to fire.

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.

most countries ban marijuana, but it’s legal in Colorado and so is alcohol

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

Coats’ efforts to get medical treatment to get a job, without having to terminate his contract

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

Coats uses marijuana purely to ease the pain of his illness, but it hurts him because he starts to face prejudice from others.

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.

No one is affected because Coats smokes marijuana, he uses his own time to do so, not during his time at the company.

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.

The swiftness in action of the Secret Service agents prevented Omar Gonzales from achieving his goal of entering the White House.

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 Service is investigating how the breach happened.

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.

Julia Pierson’s incompetence in defending the White House could lead to dismissal, but her testimony in court kept her from losing 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.

Security officers did not need to resort to lethal force because the intruder only used a 4-inch knife.