Posted on 01/28/2014 6:42:54 AM PST by 1raider1
Considering the way things are heading, should we now ask every person with whom we conduct business (especially medical professionals) if they use marijuana?
/johnny
Sir, I have seen some truly ignorant posts in my time, but this one tops them all.
/johnny
OK I’ll try one more time. I’m talking PROFESSIONALS (doctors dentists, independent mechanics). In case you don’t know these people ARE the bosses and would not fire themselves for using while working.
/johnny
/johnny
Thank you for your reply.
You seem rather paranoid.
Do you use marijuana?
People make pot out to be this innocent silly little thing that’s ‘just like drinking a couple beers’. This is a lie, todays pot is 10x more powerful than the pot of the 70’s and 80’s, it has become a very powerful drug. I would be very concerned if a doctor or other professional used it for sure.
You seem rather unconcerned. Would you want your surgeon to operate while stoned?
I can see asking about the others as I prefer not to do business with any one of those either. But Jewish, Mormon, Catholic or carrying weapons do not pose a threat to me.
Well, it’s not a bad idea. I’d certainly drop a dentist or mechanic in a heartbeat if I learned they were dopeheads.
Heck, I even took it further. I recall twenty years ago an owner of a local clothing store that I frequented who got busted for dope. I took my business elsewhere. No personal danger involved, but I certainly wasn’t going to conduct business with such an individual.
Anything illegal has a stigma attached to it. The stigma keeps people away even though they might be able to obtain it easily. Once it becomes legal, it becomes more socially acceptable. We were at a bonfire for our little league team and us adults were drinking alcohol. Nobody would dare light up a doobie at that event today because its illegal where I live. If it was legal, I think eventually it would become acceptable for people to smoke it at an event like this.
It is certainly within your 1st amendment right to ask your doctor if s/he is a stoner. However, actions have consequences, and you will need to be prepared to find another doctor if they are thoroughly offended by the insult.
Then again, after King O is finished with his healthcare engineering project, you may have difficulties finding a doctor in the first place.
You should think of nothing else. Ask everyone you pass on the street. No one used it until now, ever. Now, everyone does.
We’re all gonna die.
I'll pass on the surgeon working with a hangover. Likewise a commercial pilot or any employee who comes to work in a looking/acting in a fog of any kind.
I can tell you definitively that the deleterious effects of marijuana on cognitive functionality lasts for several days.
Nonsense.
Colorado and other pro-dope states are having to face this difficult question as we FReep.
Employers still have the right to drug screen their employees. And if THC is found, they still have the right to fire them.
Of course this will change. Pretty soon companies will be prohibited from firing a stoner. No matter how poor his work perfromance. Just like queers are now a protected class - dopers will be also.
/johnny
..."Another pot smoker observation I have made; here at least NONE of them serve their country in the Armed Forces , none are inclined to enlist . It’s ‘not cool’ . This of course does not apply to the many aging Vietnam War veterans that enjoy a good puff , out in their secluded homesteads . They EARNED the right to relax any damn way they want to.
How "secluded" should one be? Wait a second... Ah... There we are.
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