HYPOCRISY EVIDENT IN MARIJUANA CASE

Gail Urbanec returned to work after being fired last spring when a
random drug test showed marijuana use ("Bus driver who used marijuana
returns to job today").

Just because someone has used marijuana, it doesn't make them an
incorrigible idiot incapable of doing his or her job.

A blaring hypocrisy is taking place.

Society allows and encourages people to go to their neighborhood party
store and buy enough alcohol to stay drunk all weekend -- and possibly
start the work week with a horrific hangover -- and that's perfectly
normal and acceptable. But if a member of our community should smoke a
little marijuana and a urinalysis discovers a trace of it, they can be
fired from their job and make the front page of the newspaper.

It's incredulous. People should be judged by their actions, not their
urine.

DONNA M. PARIDEE, New Baltimore