Medical Marijuana in the South?

The Americans with disabilities act is a Federal law. Pot is still against federal law, it's only legal at some of the states level. If you got fired and went to court I think your case would be compromised by the inconsistency of the laws. But I could be wrong - I'm not a lawyer.

 

I don't think that pot would be allowed with a prescription as is other meds with a prescription. Pot is not classified as having valid medical uses by the federal government. The U. S. DOT will not allow someone to have pot in their system. If pot were legal then could they tell if you were driving stoned or if you smoked the night before when you were at home watching tv. Here is the scenario, you are driving home from work and some drunk walking down the road stumbles into the road and you hit him. The cops come and take you into custody. They take you to take a drug and alochol test. You fail the test for pot. You were not stoned during the accident. You had smoked two weeks earlier. The d.a. Charges you with DUI and vehicular homicide. You claim that it's been two weeks since you smoked. Can you prove it and does it matter? Something like this has had to have happened. It would be bad if you were wrongfully convicted of being stoned because they can't tell when you smoked, only that you did smoke at some time in the last month. Do they claim that if it shows in your system then you are under the influence?

 

Apparently that technology is not here yet. But I mean come on, there has to be a way to figure that out. There has to be some part of the body that THC can be found but can't be detected after 6 hours.

 

There isn't a market for it to justify the research dollars to be spent to solve that problem.

 

that's because we are all too busy not taking life seriously.

 

They could figure it out if there was a reason and a profit could be made. What the market asks for now is simply positive or negative results. There isn't a need for a test that can pinpoint if a person is stoned or not at the moment of the test only is the person free from pot or not.

 

Here's the million dollar question.... How much money will be lost, jobs be lost, if Marijuana were legalized? Policing and jailing is a huge industry, especially now that prisons are becoming privatized more and more. There is an incentive now for putting people in jail. And also think of the federal money that is given to the dea for the war on drugs that we lost decades ago.

What is it like 60 or 70% of jail populations are in there for non violent drug offenses? How much of that is Marijuana? That's a nice chunk of change the prisons are making. Don't their stock prices rise when prison populations do?

 

Never heard of that. Can u really buy stock in prisons???

 

the money that pays for those jobs is taken from us in taxes. so we wouldnt lose jobs we would have more money to buy things and employ people. plus we would gain jobs in the huge new legal industry of marijuana.