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&lt;p&gt;A cautionary tale out of Washington for those of you who can&#39;t wait to get your hands on some legal marijuana: one of the first people ever to legally buy pot in the Evergreen State has been fired by his employer, after being spotted on the news purchasing his bud.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mike Boyer, a 30-year old security guard and committed pursuer of altered states of mind, made history when he became the first legal buyer of pot in his hometown of Spokane, Wash.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The buzz kill: according to the &lt;em&gt;NY Daily News&lt;/em&gt;, his employer called him in for a drug test after &quot;a client had seen the security guard on a newscast and was concerned about the drug use.&quot; When the test came back positive for THC, Boyer—who had previously signed a document agreeing to prohibit having the substance in his system—was let go.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While Boyer seems unrepentant about the turn of events, his experience is a useful reminder that all those disclaimers and assorted pieces of paper you scrawl your signature on when starting a new job are more than just an elaborate initiation rite. So whether you live in the pot-friendly states of Washington or Colorado, or one of the other 48 where weed isn&#39;t (yet) legal, consider this your lesson: &#39;legal&#39; and &#39;acceptable to an employer&#39; are two very different things.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read More:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NY Daily News&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/wash-man-buy-legal-weed-spokane-fired-spotted-news-article-1.1861214&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Washington man first to buy legal weed in Spokane is fired after spotted on news&lt;strong&gt;&#160;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE: &lt;/strong&gt;Boyer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/first-person-legally-buy-weed-spokane-wa-gets-fired&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;has since been reinstated&lt;/a&gt;. Speaking to NBC news, a company spokesperson explained that there had been a misuderstanding over whether Boyer had been smoking/under the influence when on duty.&lt;/p&gt;

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