The problem i have with random drug testing is the invasion of privacy. As long as i'm sober at work, on their time, it shouldn't matter if I go home and relax by rolling a joint, any more than if i went home and cracked open a beer.
Alcoholism is a far more dangerous addiction, and (in many cases) results in violence towards others. The use (especially recreational) of marijuana does not have nearly the same psychological effects towards violent tendencies, but is still demonized nonetheless.
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Originally Posted by raeanna74
Once night he had 2 puffs. THAT'S all. Next morning he's got a friend of his asking him what he was doing the night before. He had called a friend of his who was a guy and who he wasn't amorously interested in to profess his undying love for the guy. AND he didn't even remember making the call. He hasn't had a puff since. He figures if he does things that he doesn't always remember when he's high on the stuff then he could really srew things up.
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Considering this sort of "gap" in memory is very common in the use of alcohol, I have to say that this one isolated incident doesn't mean anything. At all. Everyone in the world reacts to every chemical differently. Many reactions are similar to most people, but sometimes shit happens and your body reacts badly.
I have an adverse reaction to over-the-counter Ibuprofen. If i take more than one pill, it alters my mood and sends me into crazy mood swings, including irrational anger, sadness, and a few others. Ibuprofen. Many people hallucinate on common prescription pain killers, such as codeine or morphine- and some have much more severe reactions. I had one patient at the pharmacy where I work took one prescription percocet and woke up on the other side of town, having wandered in a daze for 6 straight hours while the drug messed with him. He was confronted by a police officer who thought he was high, and the guy couldn't remember his name, where he lived, how he'd gotten where he was- anything. Also, I had a coworker/friend from a previous job that had memory gaps every time she drank. If she got even a little drunk, she'd have no memory of maybe a 30 minute period somewhere in the previous evening, sometimes a little more. Every time. You can hardly take her example and say alcohol is the devil because of one person's reaction to it. Hell, some people are allergic to alcohol and go into anaphylactic shock from as little as a sip or two of beer, wine- anything with alcohol in it.
I know it's easy to demonize something you know little to nothing about, but some people in this world (not referring to anyone in specific here) need to get a clue.
So taking that one night and using it to gauge the drug as a whole is completely ridiculous. Also, it may not have been the marijuana, he might have also been having a drink to go with it. Drugs (meaning all drugs, legal or otherwise) interact with each other in different ways... often times predictably, sometimes not.
Dismissing marijuana, writing it off as a dangerous plant, is foolish. Educate yourselves- and for the love of everything decent in this world, don't insult us by posting bullshit numbers/rhetoric from a biased source like the DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. While you're at it, why don't you go consult Fox News on how President Bush is doing, or go to a pro-life web site to learn about abortions. You have to consider your source, and gather information from multiple places- places not biased by their motives.
(for the record, I don't currently smoke pot and haven't in some time.)