So what about a 90 year old guy, with nothing to lose, who smokes weed on his back porch occassionally.... Anything wrong with that?
The thing is it stays in your system. That's why I made the remark about smoking pot on Friday. Not the whole weekend. Let alone burning one at night before you go to bed or watch TV. At one time recently Anchorage had passed some bill making pot legal. The company I work for sent out email saying it still was unacceptable. The Anchorage bill later went away.
http://www.addaction.org.uk/Drugcannabis.htm Personally, I believe it should be legalized, regulated, taxed, and sold. I also however believe that all workplaces should make it a fireable offense to partake of it. Its hallucinogenic properties do not belong in the workplace.
You generally don't need a reason to fire people, so the firing of people for weed would still completely be accepted. IMO, there's nothing different about weed & alcohol except that alcohol is more accepted. For instance, your point that hallucinogenic properties don't belong in the workplace is completely valid - as long as you don't consider alcohol's permiscuity & rage properties.
I've never hallucinated from marijuana. Things look weird. Lots of things are hilarious. I get hungry. I want to fall asleep. That's about it. No hallucinations.
Well, it's tracable in your system. Maybe alcohol is tracable as well, but nobody cares to do the scientific research to find out... That implies possible consequences for workers, but it would atleast be up to the employee & employeer's discretion if it was legal, as oppossed to the governments.
It's promiscuity... and lowered inhibitions and reduced motor control are the extent of alcohol's effects.
Nope. The law is the law. If the old man takes his punishment just like anyone else when caught so be it. I'm a firm believer in the law of "You made your bed, now lay in it."
