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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
There was many incidences of drug abuse but, only a couple times someone came to work drunk. I only once seen someone drinking at work. Why? Because being drunk is harder to hide.
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Wow.
I should probably stop there or not even bother because I know better but just wow. Being drunk and drinking at work are two different things, so which one are you talking about? Because if you honestly believe that hiding drinking at work is harder than being stoned on weed, coke, crack, meth, and so on, you truly have no understanding about the world around you.
You say that the only reason the War on Drugs hasn't work is because of soft penalties which is completely false else the USA would not be spending $14 billion, yes billion, on finding, prosecuting and incarcerating people for marijuana, with 98% of them small possession offenses, yet still have a ramped drug problems.
Besides the illegal title what is the difference between Marijuana, Cigarettes and Alcohol, besides the latter two killing over 7,000,000 more people a year worldwide?
Forget that you think it is wrong personally, think about the money missed by keeping it illegal when it BC alone sales reach $7 billion a year for what any expert would tell you is a pretty harmless drug when you compare it to anything else legal or illegal. Take the taxes from that to pay for hospitals, schools, law enforcement for harmful drugs like meth and crack.
And making it legal would make it tougher for kids to get at. Do you think that drug dealer down the street cares about age, they only want the money. Sure kids will still get their hands on it but they get their hands on alcohol and cigarettes too, but most kids would tell you it is easier to get something like marijuana vs. alcohol or cigarettes because it's illegal and unregulated.
As for your drug testing policy, give your head a shake. Should you have to take a breathalyser on your way in the door every morning as well? Most people who use marijuana are not going to work stoned, clearly you have never smoked it else you would know the paranoia that most get from it. So unless they are working at the Mac's or the video store I can bet a doctor isn't going into work stoned even if he has a puff here and there. If they took pee samples from everyone who would run the government? How do you replace so many judges, lawyers, doctors, and so on?
You know what a drug testing policy tells people? Don't smoke weed because it stays in your system for 30 days, just do coke and crack and it's gone from your system within 48hrs (the weekend).
Also you have no idea about growing so please just stop, you're embarrassing yourself. BCBud is only one of the best marijuana on the planet and it has nothing to do with the laws. I've tasted that Alberta crap for many years and if it just depended on a room there would be a lot more places growing marijuana of this quality and shipping it around North America.
There are five main groups that don't want marijuana legal in Canada, those who grow it, those who deal it, those who are hired to track it down, those who incarcerate the people caught and the people who don't understand the drug for what it really is and why it is illegal in the first place. I know which one you fall into.