“I wouldn’t want them using MJ on the job any more than anti-depressants, cold medicine, or alcohol either.”
“What they do off the job is none of my, or your, concern”
That is a ignorant statement. Are you saying that smoking something (marijuana, crack, etc) in your off-time only affects your performance, your mind in your off-time? That makes no sense and is totally ignorant.
So by your reasoning it would be perfectly fine for a surgeon to smoke marijuana nonstop while he’s off duty because that’s HIS time and it would have no bearing on his ability to do his job while he is on duty because it would obviously not affect him because he’s not smoking in the operating room.
Seriously? That’s your stance?
I’m sure his stance is that he wants people to do their job sober.
Alcohol is perfectly legal, yet I would hardly want a surgeon to have a few shots before working on me, or anyone else. Why is it with booze surgeons are apparently able to make rational decision on its use?
If a surgeon were to smoke all the time but was capable and sober on his job I wouldn’t care.
We've spent trillions in incarceration, education, and rehabilitation. Recidivism rates are astronomical and only rivaled by sex offenders. More laws only increase the profit margin for dealers and smugglers. The extra-cash invariably find the weak to temp in our law enforcement and governments which in turn compounds the problems inherent in such an unwinnable "war" on some drugs.
Let the self destructive kill themselves off. There is little you can do, even in a fully monitored police state, to stop it.
The heavy users won't stay in those critical position jobs for long, the casual user won't be treated to "mandatory sentencing" that puts a baby raper back on the streets, and we'll take trillions in profits out of the drug cartels hands.
Further, if "We the People" had our full RKBA back, those going "out of control" in public would be duly ventilated for their stupidity thereby removing themselves from the gene pool. Eventually, the genetic malfunction that results in addictive weaknesses will be weeded out of the population.
But no... you Nanny Staters have to force "compassion" for the druggies and the rest of us down you throats at the point of a government gun and at the expense of the protections embodied in the Bill of Rights.
It is YOU who are the "ignorant" one here.
If a person's on-duty performance is acceptable, why does it matter what the person does off-duty? Likewise if the person's on-duty performance is not acceptable. Why should the employer care about factors other than the actual quality of the person's performance?