The pot machine

[Special Ed]

This should have bags of weed lined up in the spiral dispensers like a candy machine.

People get pissed when their bag of chips gets caught and doesn't fall, can you imagine their reaction when that 1/4 oz bud gets stuck?!

"D....3.... GODD%&*#@IT!"

 

[Elshauno]

I do believe reading Marijuana is the number 1 cash crop in the United States today. That's quite a bit of untapped tax revenue that could be put to better use. Oh well what can you do?

 

[Brew Runner]

Oh well what can you do?

Eh, grow it yourself?

 

[Surly]

Been there done that......Try to be a legislator that looks at an issue and concludes that it has merit. then, co-sponsor legislation to legaize it in certain and well controlled manners

Enter the right wing to bash the hell outa you.

Mind you, it is not the part of the right wing that really believes that you are evil that will get you.

It is the business community that uses this BS to hide behind the tax cuts they want.

This is one of the devisive issues, like gay marriage and a host of others that keep peeople down and controlled.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Just choose to work somewhere that doesn't implement mandatory testing. That's what I do. The last time I consented to a pee test was before I was 18, and working for an auto parts store. Since then, that's part of my criteria. Don't care how much they're offering me, I still got me morals.

Oddly enough, my moral stance is quite the opposite. I regularly submit to drug testing, and I don't really mind. I have nothing to hide, and I feel it's probably in my employer's best interest to make sure I'm "clean."

Not saying you're wrong...just presenting a different view. To each his own...

 

[BlindLemonLars]

Oddly enough, my moral stance is quite the opposite. I regularly submit to drug testing, and I don't really mind. I have nothing to hide, and I feel it's probably in my employer's best interest to make sure I'm "clean."

Yuri, in your line of work, it's in EVERYBODY'S best interest that you're clean!

I don't see it as a moral issue, but a common sense issue. I want clean & sober pilots, bus drivers, doctors, etc. Any position where other peoples health and safety is on the line. Now the guy at the auto parts store...I couldn't care less if he's smoking pot on his break!

 

[MikeFlynn74]

BlindLemon

How do you feel about them giving Stimulants like riddalin (aka Go pills) for their alert missions or long missions? Taking Riddalin when its not needed is like doing coke.

I believe 2 A10 pilots blamed long work hours and those stimulants for thier accidental fire on Canadian forces in Afganistan.

So its an accepted risk? Just playing devils advocate.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

This is about to go WAY off topic. If you want more information about the risk factors involved with military pilots and "go-pills" (dextroamphetamines), or about the causal factors in the friendly fire incident you mentioned, send me a PM.

 

[talleymonster]

This is about to go WAY off topic. If you want more information about the risk factors involved with military pilots and "go-pills" (dextroamphetamines), or about the causal factors in the friendly fire incident you mentioned, send me a PM.

OOHHHH.... I knew that was about to happen.

Now, back on topic......Drugs anyone?:cross:

 

[Special Ed]

Yuri, in your line of work, it's in EVERYBODY'S best interest that you're clean!

I don't see it as a moral issue, but a common sense issue. I want clean & sober pilots, bus drivers, doctors, etc. Any position where other peoples health and safety is on the line. Now the guy at the auto parts store...I couldn't care less if he's smoking pot on his break!

The debate over legalizing pot always ends up with people worrying about pilots, drivers, surgeons, etc. smoking pot on the job or behind the wheel. I don't understand this argument because alcohol is legal but not legally comsumed under circumstances that could cause harm to others. Why would pot be any different? If legalizing and taxing pot means lowering tax on beer, gas, or anything that I purchase, I'm all for it! Tax the potheads, I don't think they vote anyway :cross:

 

[BlindLemonLars]

BlindLemon

How do you feel about them giving Stimulants like riddalin (aka Go pills) for their alert missions or long missions? Taking Riddalin when its not needed is like doing coke. I believe 2 A10 pilots blamed long work hours and those stimulants for thier accidental fire on Canadian forces in Afganistan.

Mike, I don't know enough about pilots or ritalin to even offer an opinion. And as Yuri says, I think it's starting to stray way off topic!

 

[CEMaine]

Jenkem is untraceable in drug tests[/QUOTE]
WTF is that?
I will not smoke it if I do not know what it is...

 

[CEMaine]

A pot vending machine!? I got a chain and a truck. Who's coming with me? :cross:

Dude!!
I am so in. But, I need to take a break first. Wanna pass the bong over?

 

[brauhaus]

Jenkem= i now feel sick to my stomach... who'd drink that shyt? literally!

 

[Chriso]

CEMaine, Google holds the answer to your Jenkem question.

 

[Fingers]

Keep in mind that there are two groups that profit the most from keeping pot illegal. The dealers and the cops. Now, if drugs are a health issue, as most people seem to agree, whey then do police teach students drug resistance classes at school? I wouldn't talk to a cop about my broken arm or high blood pressure, why would I take their word on drug effects?

Most arguements I've heard against pot legalization don't hold water. They cite the effects of prohibition as reason to keep it illegal! I cite the effects of prohibition as a reason to legalize and they look at me like I'm crazy. They say we can't legalize because there's no roadside test for impairment and I ask them if keeping it illegal negates the need for the test. We know for a fact that making the stuff illegal doesn't curb use in any way. In fact, the illegal nature of the plant makes it MORE difficult to develop an effective test because it's difficult for researchers to legally experiment with both the plant and its effect on humans.

 

[mr x]

Keep in mind that there are two groups that profit the most from keeping pot illegal. The dealers and the cops.

Three groups - Big Pharmaceuticals.

 

[CEMaine]

Tax the potheads, I don't think they vote anyway :cross:

I am a pothead an I vote.
But, I am willing to pay some taxes on my smoke if it stops the insanity that is the War on Drugs.

 

[CEMaine]

CEMaine, Google holds the answer to your Jenkem question.

True chriso. And I wish I had not searched for it. People do not actually do that do they? I mean really....

 

[scottthorn]

The debate over legalizing pot always ends up with people worrying about pilots, drivers, surgeons, etc. smoking pot on the job or behind the wheel. I don't understand this argument because alcohol is legal but not legally comsumed under circumstances that could cause harm to others. Why would pot be any different?

I believe that a major part of this issue is that while there is a test to determine if someone is impaired from alcohol (breathalyzer), but there is no test that will show if someone is high on marijuana right at that moment. Urine and hair analysis can prove past usage, but that doesn't help the cop who pulls someone over and suspects they are under the influence, or the NTSB investigator trying to determine if a pilot was high while flying and not while he/she was on vacation in Jamaica three weeks before. Come up with a "ganja breathalyzer" and you're a lot closer to seeing legalization IMO.

 

[Chriso]

I believe that a major part of this issue is that while there is a test to determine if someone is impaired from alcohol (breathalyzer), but there is no test that will show if someone is high on marijuana right at that moment. Urine and hair analysis can prove past usage, but that doesn't help the cop who pulls someone over and suspects they are under the influence, or the NTSB investigator trying to determine if a pilot was high while flying and not while he/she was on vacation in Jamaica three weeks before. Come up with a "ganja breathalyzer" and you're a lot closer to seeing legalization IMO.

At the risk of shattering all that you (By the way "you" does not equal scottthorn, "you" is collective.) have been told to believe, and making you mad at me...... um..... there's no need. If you're too messed up to drive because you've been tokin' the ganja, then you need idiot intervention, not a curbside "ganjalyzer". Sure it makes you relaxed and giggly, but please don't let the government's "facts" get in your way, taking a toke doesn't make you go drive like a cock and kill people.

In fact, every person I've ever seen drive while high? Yeah. That's right. They drove better than they do sober. They followed every speed limit and signalled every turn.

Just $0.02 for your change bucket, I'm sure I'm gonna get flamed like hell now. (By the way "you" does not equal scottthorn, "you" is collective.)

 

[Fingers]

The theory is that those high on marijuana are more aware of their impairment and compensate by driving more carefully. That brings up an interesting point. People don't smoke dope and get into barfights. Pot makes people quiet and sedate.

I believe that a major part of this issue is that while there is a test to determine if someone is impaired from alcohol (breathalyzer), but there is no test that will show if someone is high on marijuana right at that moment. Urine and hair analysis can prove past usage, but that doesn't help the cop who pulls someone over and suspects they are under the influence, or the NTSB investigator trying to determine if a pilot was high while flying and not while he/she was on vacation in Jamaica three weeks before. Come up with a "ganja breathalyzer" and you're a lot closer to seeing legalization IMO.

But as I said earlier, Scotthorn, that doesn't make sense. It uses a supposition that by making marijuana illegal nobody is actually using it. We know that's not true so we need a road side ganjalizer ANYWAY, no matter the legal state of the substance because people will, and are, using it anyway. It's easier to experiment with it if it's legal!

 

[GlassblowersBrew]

I still can't wrap my brain around jenkem. That is so ****in gross. I'm completely floored.

 

[Fingers]

*pssst* Glassblower!.... It's not real. It's all a hoax. Nobody's REALLY huffing that.... stuff.

 

[Brew Runner]

I still can't wrap my brain around jenkem.

You don't have to; it soaks in by itself.

 

[Brakeman_Brewing]

*pssst* Glassblower!.... It's not real. It's all a hoax. Nobody's REALLY huffing that.... stuff.

Thats what they want you to think!

 

[Special Ed]

I am a pothead an I vote.
But, I am willing to pay some taxes on my smoke if it stops the insanity that is the War on Drugs.

CEMaine, that wasn't meant to offend. I know many people who partake in cannibis who are fine upstanding citizens. It was more of a dig at polititions who make decisions based on what gets them re-elected vs. what is the right thing to do.

It is political suicide to say you are for legalizing pot. I vote libertarian whenever I can!