Biden is right: Marijuana belongs in a different category

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The Department of Health and Human Services has recommended removing cannabis from the federal government’s list of drugs that have “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” Known as Schedule I, this group includes substances such as heroin and LSD, bad company to which cannabis, whose recreational and medicinal use is being legalized or decriminalized by many states, no longer belongs — if it ever did. This is a wise and overdue change, which, not incidentally, fulfills one of President Biden’s campaign promises.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/15/marijuana-schedule-one-drug/
 
Gasoline is up to 4 bucks a gallon today. Does president aneurysm think we won't notice shit like that if we're stoned?
 
Up here in Alaska there is a pot shop right down the road, don’t need a card or prescription or anything and you can smoke it right in front of a cop.

It costs you an arm and a leg but it’s readily available unlike alcohol.
 
I don't really have a problem legalizing marijuana so long as there are DUI / DWI type laws in place along with that. I would also say that any employer could demand drug testing of employees on a regular basis and that finding THC in someone's system is grounds for termination, as much as being drunk on the job would be.

The reason for this is that THC, the active ingredient in marijuana can stay in your system for up to 30 days. Imagine this scenario: An airline pilot smokes a joint on Friday night. He flies his next plane on Monday. Now, one joint, with two days in between is not going to find him impaired. But now, the plane crashes. They test the pilot and find THC in his bloodstream.
I can guarantee every passenger, family of passengers, persons shipping goods on that plane, will sue the living fuck out of the airline for the pilot being "stoned."

That is a problem, a big problem. It is one that cannot be gotten around either. You can get pissed drunk on Friday night and be sober Monday morning, but you go out and use marijuana under the same conditions, and you are opening up a legal can of worms to litigation. Would you as an employer want to take chances of being sued because your employees used marijuana?
 
Airline pilots are held to higher standards. You made the point yourself about THC being detectable for weeks. Should someone lose a job for getting high a couple of weeks ago, on their own time?
 
Controlled Opposition said:
Airline pilots are held to higher standards. You made the point yourself about THC being detectable for weeks. Should someone lose a job for getting high a couple of weeks ago, on their own time?
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Indeed it can show up in urine for a good deal of time. It would be akin to someone having a couple cocktails and then two weeks later being fired for it.
 
Controlled Opposition said:
Airline pilots are held to higher standards. You made the point yourself about THC being detectable for weeks. Should someone lose a job for getting high a couple of weeks ago, on their own time?
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Truck / CDL drivers would be held to that standard. Hell, you get in a serious accident, you're likely to be held to that standard. Anyone doing precision work or working with machinery could be held to that standard. Construction workers hurt on the job could be held to that standard.

That's the whole problem with marijuana. THC stays with you for weeks. In a litigious society like ours, that's a HUGE problem. There is no easy solution either.
 
Oscillator said:
Indeed it can show up in urine for a good deal of time. It would be akin to someone having a couple cocktails and then two weeks later being fired for it.
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Except, having a couple of cocktails the alcohol leaves your system in a matter of hours, not weeks. That's the problem with marijuana. THC stays with you. It is going to be an excuse for lawyers to sue you for any accident. It's going to be an excuse for employers to fire you. They wouldn't want the liability in many cases. There is no easy solution either.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Except, having a couple of cocktails the alcohol leaves your system in a matter of hours, not weeks. That's the problem with marijuana. THC stays with you. It is going to be an excuse for lawyers to sue you for any accident. It's going to be an excuse for employers to fire you. They wouldn't want the liability in many cases. There is no easy solution either.
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THC stays in your bloodstream, but the high isn't there. It does not impair you once that fades.
 
Oscillator said:
I'm guessing you've never done pot.
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I haven't. My argument here isn't about being impaired days after using, you wouldn't be. My argument is that without a strong set of laws in place about what constitutes impairment when using pot, you run into a trainwreck of potential lawsuits over it. This wouldn't be a problem if THC left your system entirely in hours instead of weeks.
 
BidenPresident said:
The Department of Health and Human Services has recommended removing cannabis from the federal government’s list of drugs that have “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” Known as Schedule I, this group includes substances such as heroin and LSD, bad company to which cannabis, whose recreational and medicinal use is being legalized or decriminalized by many states, no longer belongs — if it ever did. This is a wise and overdue change, which, not incidentally, fulfills one of President Biden’s campaign promises.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/15/marijuana-schedule-one-drug/
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The marijuana today is MUCH more potent. It is leading to psychosis and increased suicide rate in some of its users. It needs to stay a Schedule one drug until a new peer reviewed drug study on today's drug is conducted.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3927252/
 
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BidenPresident said:
The Department of Health and Human Services has recommended removing cannabis from the federal government’s list of drugs that have “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” Known as Schedule I, this group includes substances such as heroin and LSD, bad company to which cannabis, whose recreational and medicinal use is being legalized or decriminalized by many states, no longer belongs — if it ever did. This is a wise and overdue change, which, not incidentally, fulfills one of President Biden’s campaign promises.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/15/marijuana-schedule-one-drug/
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Legalize heroin. It would have made my life a whole lot easier years ago. Tell me why not.
 
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