Perhaps—but if your job is to enforce the laws about what other people do on their own time, it seems like a reasonable prerequisite that you should behave spot

Perhaps—but if your job is to enforce the laws about what other people do on their own time, it seems like a reasonable prerequisite that you should behave spotlessly on your own time too. At the very least, he knew the stakes well ahead of time, and he knew it was his responsibility to make sure he didn’t get THC in his blood. As a drug cop, it would be strange for him not to understand that hemp products still contain some amount of THC. And although the firing decision only relied on the drug test, the evidence shows that he did in fact procure and use “CBD” products that were above the legal limit for THC content—and thus broke the laws it’s his job to enforce. “I swear, officer, I didn’t know what it was!” doesn’t work for anybody else, so I have a hard time accepting that it should work for the elite cop whose job it is to know better.