i mean it is a BIG step in the right direction, just not that well thought out. i mean the do have colleges in mexico right?

well common fucking sense is not that difficult to come up with.
i mean i can have that lil bit of weed in my pocket but how do i go about getting it well legally anyway thats like taking one of us to the cup and saying enjoy yourself but you cant smoke
seems like el presidente may need to lay off the jose for a while

any way this is the wolfman signing off till next time
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I think 3 is the worst one of all. I have seen too many employees lose a job b/c they got hurt and they popped on a piss test a month after smoking pot. When I dealt with accidents at my old job I would always make sure the employee understood that they would be required to take a drug test if I filed an accident report. So many said yes they understood that and then popped on a piss test and I never seen them again. FIRED!

The government nor an employer should have the right to tell you what you can and can’t do in your free time. Guess that’s why the same employer was full of alcoholics, coke heads, and pill heads.

I got really lucky once. I had an employer once that was insane about drug testing but I was part of a weekend skeletal crew and there were no nurses on duty during those shifts so I was not piss tested for a year. After a year the company would pick you up and hire you as a permanent employee (a poor excuse so they could start your time, vacation, and benefits over at zero after working for them for a year. Well with that came another drug test b/c technically I wasn’t a permanent employee yet. Well B/c I knew this I stopped smoking in January so I’d be clean for my Mar 1 deadline. Well they caled me in for a piss test mid February and I popped (but it was very faint. I explained the situation that I quit a month ago blah blah blah, and b/c of this I was going to lose my job? They said well you must be a good worker b/c you managed to make it through the first year which many do not. They said “they’d have to send it to the lab” and I’d have to sit home till the results came back. A week later, they told me to get my ass back to work and leave the “childish stuff” behind. I don’t think they sent it to a lab. I think they “lost” some paperwork on my behalf. I was so thankful but I realize that this is like a one in a million case. Most companies are very “black and white” with no gray area. Luckily the town I was working in is full of alcoholics, pill heads, and tokers, so I think they were used to dealing with it. My ex did the whistleblower thing and they let her go to rehab in exchange for keeping her job and that was for coke.

Another story about an employer. Chaparral and Robalo Boats was bought out by an oil company in the late 90′s and became a public company. When a company goes public every dime has to be tracked b/c of shareholders, drug tests usually ensue b/c of the tax breaks and it makes the company look good. Well after about 3 months of that and scaring everybody to death, people were quitting like crazy. The former owner but still CEO William S. Pegg stood up to the Oil company and said ” look a here, you are running off all my supervisors, plant managers, and employees. This is a small town with a small employee pool and if you keep doing this, we cannot build any boats.” This coming from the same man that got caught twice for shipping coke out in the boat fuel tanks and used to come in to work coked out of his gourd before the company went public. After that, drug tests were only brought out for pre-employment and post accident. Amazing how dwindling profits cause a company to change its mind. Its a little different in small town America b/c there is nothing for these folks to do except get drunk, do drugs, and make babies and those who DON’T do something are the minority.

The “decriminalization” concept is such a joke. Like a bad joke, actually. Do they think they’re appeasing folks who want cannabis legalized? Is that the point? Are they trying to get people to feel comfortable with wandering around with “four joints” in their pocket so they can get more leads on suppliers? Don’t they get it? Don’t they understand that this is doing no more good than full criminalization? What’s going to stop cops from inquiring, “Where’d you get that?”

Granted, it looks like a “first step” toward legalization, but I believe it is not. I also think that Mexico would not do this without the US Government’s stamp of approval and that makes me think that both governments are trying to appease legalization proponents in an effort to quell the continued rise of people asking for true legalization.

The only cure to the sickness that is prohibition and drug cartel violence is legalization, taxation and real regulation. Period.

A step in the right direction as far as I am concerned.

“hey fellow consumers,can someone tell me what happens to workplace drug testing where, decriminalization is concerned?if we push for that as a way to forward legalization, can my employer still tell me what to do in my private life?”

RE: fla activist,
- I think this would really
depend upon the employer and specific
JOB-description.

- Perhaps,
more accurate test-methods
will make UNSCIENTIFIC, zero-tolerance
testing a thing of the past,
(Tests which determine present-impairment
based upon current levels of THC, instead of
relying upon weeks-old, inactive metabolites,
like hair follicle and urine-testing do…).

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