Legal Weed Sales

Foxrac said:
Marijuana is illegal under federal law and booze is not, so that why is big difference.
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Maybe you should read back in the thread a bit this has already been covered. Obviously by federal law it's still illegal. But by Colorados state laws it is legal, just as alcohol is legal and I've already said that more legislation is needed, because the laws should reflect it being legal. It's rather simple really.
 
ambrosia said:
Maybe you should read back in the thread a bit this has already been covered. Obviously by federal law it's still illegal. But by Colorados state laws it is legal, just as alcohol is legal and I've already said that more legislation is needed, because the laws should reflect it being legal. It's rather simple really.
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Even if it is legal in Colorado, you can get arrested by federal authorities, especially DEA and prosecute you under federal law because it is illegal at federal level. DOJ chose to not sue Colorado or Washington for mainly political purpose, but it could change anything when Obama is out of office by January 20, 2017.

Federal law trumps state law, so you need get marijuana legalized under federal law and change the THC test.
 
Companies hiring drug screens and firing policies are not laws, they're company policies, as long as the job isn't a federal one I don't see how a company can legally hold it against an employee. It's legal in the laws if the state, and the state should have laws protecting their citizens rights.
 
ambrosia said:
Companies hiring drug screens and firing policies are not laws, they're company policies, as long as the job isn't a federal one I don't see how a company can legally hold it against an employee. It's legal in the laws if the state, and the states laws protecting their citizens rights.
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Companies only have option to use federal approved drug test like DHB said above.

It is federal regulation that is an huge mess.
 
Foxrac said:
Companies only have option to use federal approved drug test like DHB said above.

It is federal regulation that is an huge mess.
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But companies aren't obligated to use a positive for THC to be reason for not hiring......for instance if you test positive for opiates you need to produce a prescription that shows why you tested positive, then that positive is ignored. They could disregard a positive for THC because it is freaking legal in that state. There is no federal law that a person that tests positive for THC they cannot be hired, that's just a company policy.
 
ambrosia said:
But companies aren't obligated to use a positive for THC to be reason for not hiring......for instance if you test positive for opiates you need to produce a prescription that shows why you tested positive, then that positive is ignored. They could disregard a positive for THC because it is freaking legal in that state.
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then tell to private companies who have mandatory drug screening.

If you want to get a job and pass the drug screening so don't smoke pot at all.

Our government is not ****ing simple and they are really complicated.
 
I don't have to tell companies squat, I don't do drugs, so that's irrelevant, and even if I did my industry doesn't have them. I haven't had to take a drug test since 2006. We're just discussing the ramifications of it being legal now. We're allowed to make observations that since the laws have changed things should reflect that change. I'm not required to sit quietly in the corner until things change. I'm allowed to voice my disagreement.
 
Whenever I was drug tested we had to write down whatever meds we were taken before the test was conducted.

Some private companies have very strict drug/alcohol policies. The company where my son-in-law works requires testing at each stage of the employment process, and regular, frequent random and scheduled testing after employment. Also, any time there is a safety infraction or accident, everyone involved gets tested. One positive test is grounds for firing.

In the military, a positive test required retesting at specific intervals.
 
Reba said:
Whenever I was drug tested we had to write down whatever meds we were taken before the test was conducted.

Some private companies have very strict drug/alcohol policies. The company where my son-in-law works requires testing at each stage of the employment process, and regular, frequent random and scheduled testing after employment. Also, any time there is a safety infraction or accident, everyone involved gets tested. One positive test is grounds for firing.

In the military, a positive test required retesting at specific intervals.
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Yes, it is part of life.

Want pass the drug test? Don't take drugs (except for prescription drugs) at all, including smoke the pots if you want get a job.

I know some people who high on pot, will not like it but it is part of life.
 
I'm interested to work at K-12 education after competition of university so that why I refuse to take any drugs, beside prescription drugs and I drink alcoholic beverage in moderation, mainly beer and sometime, Cosmo.

Also, there are few of my family members are nurse, especially my mother and the nurse isn't allowed to live in house with someone who smoking pots and use illegal drugs, or nurses could lose their license.
 
Foxrac said:
I'm interested to work at K-12 education after competition of university so that why I refuse to take any drugs, beside prescription drugs
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Those are the worse for you, your safer and better of smokkin the demon green and flirting with becoming a cannibal (like we all do apparently) then you are on prescription dope
 
hoichi said:
Those are the worse for you, your safer and better of smokkin the demon green and flirting with becoming a cannibal (like we all do apparently) then you are on prescription dope
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Not true, I don't have strong prescription drugs like narcotics and opiates, and any medicines that listed as DEA schedule I-V.

I only take Dexilant, Zyrtec and Dymista.

Also, smoking pots are illegal in my state and if you convicted of drug offense so you will never work at K-12 education.
 
Foxrac said:
Not true, I don't have strong prescription drugs like narcotics and opiates, and any medicines that listed as DEA schedule I-V.

I only take Dexilant, Zyrtec and Dymista.

Also, smoking pots are illegal in my state and if you convicted of drug offense so you will never work at K-12 education.
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We're not talking about your state. We're talking about a state it's what in now. You drink in moderation on your time. It's legal. In Colorado it's legal, just like alcohol, that's the point. If you smoke weed you're not high ALL the time. Well you could be lol but you'd have to smoke it all the time for that happen. But if you have a few tokes one night, you're not high the next day, just like with beer, you have a beer at night, you're not drunk the next day. Just because the drug is detectable in your system doesn't mean it's affecting you.

I can't think of another way to explain it that you will understand.
 
the weed is so strong these days so i no use it..strength of weed is going to cause some bad mental problems....back in the day it was mild no health problems why people need skunk it horrible
 
ambrosia said:
We're not talking about your state. We're talking about a state it's what in now. You drink in moderation on your time. It's legal. In Colorado it's legal, just like alcohol, that's the point. If you smoke weed you're not high ALL the time. Well you could be lol but you'd have to smoke it all the time for that happen. But if you have a few tokes one night, you're not high the next day, just like with beer, you have a beer at night, you're not drunk the next day. Just because the drug is detectable in your system doesn't mean it's affecting you.

I can't think of another way to explain it that you will understand.
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In #275 and #277, I'm talking about my state, so I have to follow my state law and federal law, so I don't live in Colorado, Washington that legalized recreational marijuana or any states that legalized the medical marijuana. Having career in K-12 education is major reason that why I don't want smoke the weeds and all types of illegal drugs.

Also, other complication, the public schools are receiving federal funding and they have to follow the federal law, even Gallaudet University doesn't honor DC law that legalized marijuana for medical reason and they only follow the federal law that is stricter than DC law. We know that federal government intensely dislike marijuana and they took very hard in states after they legalized for medical use.
 
i was staying just out of Seattle few years ago and there a place that had many retired vietnam soldiers wandering around stoned out of head they in some special army home obvious these poor men had serious mental health issues was it the weed that did it or were they using it to block out past and do we have right to judge...my relatives thought the cause of all the problems was the ease of getting weed i disagree
 
caz12 said:
i was staying just out of Seattle few years ago and there a place that had many retired vietnam soldiers wandering around stoned out of head they in some special army home obvious these poor men had serious mental health issues was it the weed that did it or were they using it to block out past and do we have right to judge...my relatives thought the cause of all the problems was the ease of getting weed i disagree
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I don't know the cause or nature of those particular Vietnam veterans, so I'm not commenting about them.

I do know that, in general, weed was extremely easy to get during the Vietnam war, both stateside and overseas. Many soldiers became steady users while in the combat zone, and brought that habit home with them.

Many first active duty assignment was on a base that also was a base for guys awaiting their discharges. I had to walk past the transient Marine barracks every day on my way to and from work. The guys would hang out on the sidewalk around their barracks, smoking weed and offering it to us as we passed by. It was no secret; the authorities looked the other way.

Occasionally we would have some of the guys "freak out." One guy in our command brought a squirt gun filled with ammonia to our building and started shooting it in people's faces. Another guy stood naked in an open ground floor window and flashed people walking by. (I saw both of these.)

Most of them were discharged with no follow-up help. It was a bad time. :(
 
Marijuana Overdoses Kill 37 in Colorado On First Day of Legalization - The Daily Currant
Colorado is reconsidering its decision to legalize recreational pot following the deaths of dozens due to marijuana overdoses.

According to a report in the Rocky Mountain News, 37 people were killed across the state on Jan. 1, the first day the drug became legal for all adults to purchase. Several more are clinging onto life in local emergency rooms and are not expected to survive.

"It's complete chaos here," says Dr. Jack Shepard, chief of surgery at St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver. "I've put five college students in body bags since breakfast and more are arriving every minute.

"We are seeing cardiac arrests, hypospadias, acquired trimethylaminuria and multiple organ failures. By next week the death toll could go as high as 200, maybe 300. Someone needs to step in and stop this madness. My god, why did we legalize marijuana? What were we thinking?"
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there we go.... 37 deaths....
 
Isn't the daily currant satire?? Like The Onion? It's fake
 
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