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A former Eugene, Oregon TV anchor has been fired for a positive marijuana test. In turn, she has started speaking out about the termination, which she says is unfair.
Specifically, Cyd Maurer is writing about her experience on her new blog, Ask Me About Marijuana. On the entry entitled “How I Went From Local News Anchor To Marijuana Activist,” she says that KEZI-TV, Maurer’s former employer, demanded that she submit to a drug test after she tapped the back bumper of the car in front of her when she was rushing to work. Apparently, her immediate supervisors didn’t even want her fired for testing positive:
The decision to fire me didn’t come from my immediate supervisors who worked with me everyday, who actually told me they wanted me to keep my job. That’s because my supervisors knew me, and trusted me, just like they trusted my coworkers who chose to drink alcohol in their free time.
No. The decision to fire me came from a corporate attorney who had never even met me.
I wasn’t fired because I couldn’t do my job. I wasn’t fired because of my work ethic, my attitude, or my abilities. I was fired for enjoying a plant, on my own time, in the privacy of my own home. A plant that the majority of voters in Oregon believe should be legal.
The rest of Maurer’s entry is devoted to detailing how weed is much safer than alcohol, and about how she doesn’t fit the “lazy” stoner stereotype. She writes: “I’m educated and responsible. I’m a woman. The vast majority of people who meet me would never in their wildest dreams assume I use marijuana. But I do. And I’m tired of hiding it – and in fact, now I want people to take notice.”
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With this blog, Maurer joins the ranks of another former broadcast journalist turned cannabis activist. Last year, Alaska’s KTVA-TV reporter Charlo Greene revealed during a segment on the Alaska Cannabis Club that she was the owner, and that she was quitting to run the club full-time. Earlier this year, police raided the Alaska Cannabis Club on suspicion of illegal activity.
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(Via Cyd Mauer / Daily Dot)