Question about Mary Jane

[Pax]

Pax, are you aware that I'm a 14 year FTO?

How many of your family members have you arrested for smoking mj or any other crime.. when i was at a dinner in honor of my sister who died an early death. Outside my jurisdiction, my cousins were moking mj.. i did not go home and get my badge and gun and arrest my cousins who were having a dinner in honor of my sister that died at age 34. I chose to remove myself from a bad situation. I think i made the right decision. Once again in roll call we are encouraged to not police off duty.

[Pax]

Donegeal, your comments got me worried so I talked to my sgt. He stated that I'm good to go ae long as I remove myself from the situation and make sure people don't have drugs on them when they are around me, especially if they are in the car with me. In short, he said I did the right thing for that situation. I respect your knowledge and I hope that if I have future concerns I may be able too talk too you offline.

[Donegeal]

I never said to arrest anyone. Confiscating the drugs and turning them over to the local PD is what I was thinking. Fill out report about what establishment it was being served at. However, just leaving the area and letting your supervisor know is as you did is probably ok also, especilly if you are encouraged not to police off duty.

[C0ckney]

i think we should get together and fund a nationwide campaign where kidicious explains why MJ should remain illegal. once people have heard his arguments, and the intelligent way he expresses them, we'll have it legalised in no time.

[Kidlicious]

LOL ... no

[rah]

I firmly believe that if there wasn't issues of properly detecting driving under the influence, it would be legal and regulated like booze.

[Elok]

I firmly believe that if there wasn't issues of properly detecting driving under the influence, it would be legal and regulated like booze.

I don't. Most of the objections to it now are based largely on misconceptions.

[Felch]

Cops can tell if you're under the influence. There are things like involuntary eye movements and slurred or hesitant speech. Combined with footage from a dashboard camera and a sympathetic judge, it's not really an issue.

After all, people can't drive on ambiens or percocets either. And it's not like cops can't tell when you're on prescription drugs.

[rah]

Most states differ on how they handle it when fatalities are involved. In some states, like Illinois, any trace in your system brings higher charges, even if you weren't impeded at the time of the accident. You could have gotten a contact high a few weeks prior at a rock concert and you're treated the same as if you were smoking just prior to driving. (which in my opinion is very wrong)
In other states they have to prove that you were impeded, which has proven to be a problem, mainly because cops may suspect but can't prove it.

[Felch]

I don't think that pot is linked to nearly as many traffic fatalities per mile driven as alcohol. Alcohol is liquid courage; it encourages aggression, and aggressive driving is dangerous driving. Pot makes people paranoid, and it distorts perception to make people think they're moving faster than they really are. Pot doesn't make you a safer driver than being sober, but it's definitely less dangerous than alcohol.

[rah]

It's hardly linked unless you're in a state like Illinois where any trace in your system makes it linked. If they had a reasonable test like the breath test for booze, a lot of objections would be removed. Every time I'm sat in a muni discussion when attempting to decriminalize it, driving under the influence and fairly detecting it is usually the main focus.

[MRT144]

No pot makes you stupid. If you smoke pot there is no way of knowing this because you are made stupid.

So what is your excuse for being stupid?

[Jon Miller]

solution:

legalize it, make legalized pot have some trace 'thing' which can be traced (but that leaves the system 'quickly')

if you have the tracer, you are 'impaired'

JM

[Hauldren Collider]

I have a slightly unorthodox solution. Instead of legalizing and taxing marijuana, I would legalize marijuana and tax Chips Ahoy.

[kentonio]

It can destroy lives.

To deny this is foolish.

The only way it 'destroys lives' is by making people unmotivated to do more productive stuff, or because of the legal rammifications of getting caught.