Posted on 01/28/2014 6:42:54 AM PST by 1raider1
Considering the way things are heading, should we now ask every person with whom we conduct business (especially medical professionals) if they use marijuana?
Do you think there will be a huge upsurge in users if it is made legal? Or will the people that smoke it now, smoke it after it is legal, and those that don't, won't?
/johnny
When it’s legal across the board (make no mistake, this is coming), I would imagine business will be the same as with alcohol. If you show up to work stoned, it’ll be as frowned-upon as showing up drunk, if not moreso.
The unintended consequence of legalization, even though I believe they understand this will happen, is that worker productivity will plummet in this country. One can sleep off a night of heavy drinking and work through the next-day fog. Having been a heavy user of marijuana in the past, I can tell you definitively that the deleterious effects of marijuana on cognitive functionality lasts for several days.
I’m not sure if more will use, but I think those who do will be less judicial in their use, since even if they are caught they won’t fear prosecution
I’d like to see businesses start posting signs prohibiting high patrons, as they do concealed carry patrons.
I certainly am not going to rush out and buy some, if Texas were to make it legal (like that would happen).
/johnny
I’m mainly thinking about those professionals, doctors, dentists, independent mechanics, etc with whom we conduct business.
Only if they appear inebriated. The same rules should apply if they appear to have been drinking, using prescription drugs, or are ill with say the flu or diabetes. If they appear to be intoxicated, ask them, and if they give an incoherent response, or otherwise seem untrustworthy, do not trust them. If they are doing a job where they could endanger others, contact their supervisor, or if none are available, a police officer.
Importantly, even police officers sometimes confuse some medical conditions with intoxication, so judgment is not always accurate.
When they ask if you have guns in your home, ask them, “do you smoke pot and take it up the dirtchute?”
Not such a silly question. There are those that question the statistical validity of cardiovascular drug studies. Very important to know which subjects smoke to factor the devastating effect of cigatette smoking on cardiovascular outcomes. Unfortunately researchers only asked about cigarettes. Those that smoke marijuana regularly also put a significant amount of carbon monoxide in their system. No mammal on earth was designed to have chronically elevated carbon monoxide levels. Just another consequence of marijuana smoking.
Absolutely!
And it is much easier to conceal a LEGAL, Constitutionally guaranteed weapon, and to refrain from using it, than it is to conceal one’s stoned-ness (and to refrain from acting it).
/johnny
If the lunch conversations are right, there are some that do not smoke now but would if made legal. I don’t not know if they are closet smokers lying about not smoking, past smokers that quit in fear of losing their jobs or are actually telling the truth.
I am always a little puzzled at those that intentionally breath in burning leaves of any type into their lungs. It just never seemed like a healthy choice for your lungs.
Not such a silly question. There are those that question the statistical validity of cardiovascular drug studies. Very important to know which subjects smoke to factor the devastating effect of cigatette smoking on cardiovascular outcomes. Unfortunately researchers only asked about cigarettes. Those that smoke marijuana regularly also put a significant amount of carbon monoxide in their system. No mammal on earth was designed to have chronically elevated carbon monoxide levels. Just another consequence of marijuana smoking.
I am not convinced that there will be. There are already a lot of people that use it illegally. It's a multi-billion dollar agricultural product.
/johnny
I don’t think you understand. I’ve tried twice to clarify that I’m not saying those who do not now use will start, but those who do, maybe your doctor, will now use during the time where they see patients.
You just need to find one of those people who claim to be able to spot a doper from a mile away.
I think there will be a huge upsurge since one of the barriers was the fact that it was illegal. Kids will be more likely to jump on the bandwagon and smoke it now that the stigma is being removed both legally and in our beloved media and white house.
Nothing against pot smokers, I tried it a few times in college and the thing I hated the most was that thick feeling I felt for almost the entire following day. Every adult I have known and still know that smokes it regularly are off their game, late for work, cancelling meetings and even business trips at the last minute. It seems to suck the motivation out of people which is why people fear it.
Stories like this seem to confirm that it has become very popular where it has been legalized. Some of the effect can be from tourists I suppose. http://www.examiner.com/article/colorado-marijuana-shortage-demand-for-legal-weed-causes-pot-shop-shortage
You are correct. Statistically speaking, upticks may not be actual upticks. They may be people that used for years and kept it quiet but are now out in the open.
/johnny
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