Watch: Oregon TV anchor: "Pot got me fired"

Mark Frauenfelder 10:15 am Fri Jul 24, 2015

Cyd Maurer, a former news anchor in Oregon, was fired from her job because she tested positive for marijuana. She was required to take a urine test after getting into a fender bender while driving a company car. The test she took does not distinguish between someone who is high and someone who has not smoked weed for days or weeks. She's now a marijuana activist who states on her site, "I enjoy using marijuana."

Maurer, 25, is following in the footsteps of poet Allen Ginsberg who, in 1963, led a marijuana legalization demonstration by wearing a sign that read "POT IS FUN."

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