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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Oregon anchor fired for positive marijuana test turns to pro-cannabis activism 🌿Oregon anchor fired for positive marijuana test turns to pro-cannabis activism
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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.Marijuana may be decriminalized in some states, but that doesn’t mean employers will turn the other cheek to an employee’s usage. Former local Oregon news anchor, Cyd Maurer, experienced this firsthand when she was fired from Eugene's ABC affiliate, KEZI-TV.
The 25-year-old University of Oregon graduate was let go from her position in May, following a positive drug test for marijuana. According to Maurer, she was rushing to work and accidentally “tapped” the back bumper of a car in front of her. Upon finding out about this minor traffic accident, the station demanded that she take a drug test. On her newly opened blog, Ask Me About Marijuana, she claims that the decision to terminate her employment came from a corporate attorney and that her supervisors, “who actually told me they wanted to keep my job,” were not responsible for the firing. She maintains that her recreational usage of...
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