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originally posted by: intrepid
originally posted by: DrumsRfun
a reply to: snowspirit
I am also disturbed by the driving aspect as well.
To compare driving on alcohol to driving on marijuana is like comparing a hamster to an elephant.
Its clearly not the same thing and should not be looked at as if it were.
Impaired is impaired. Is it the same? No but there's a difference between cyanide and hemlock. The end result of ingesting them is the same though.
originally posted by: intrepid
It's still too early to know how the law is going to be applied to this type of impaired driving. If they are going to nail people for residual levels that will be easily challenged in the courts. This is a big change and it's going to take a while to work out the bugs.
originally posted by: intrepid
a reply to: one4all
There is no "prison for profit" in Canada. The Correctional system is a necessary drain on the public funds. There's no net return. As for the rest of course it's for money. I've said as much. The outgoing Liberal gov't in Ontario is shutting down existing dispensaries and is only going to sell it via provincial outlets. IE: The LCBO. Lord knows what the incoming Conservative gov't is going to do but I don't see them being any friendlier to the market.
I don't care is you want to say MJ is a medicine. Many things are and they are used for recreational purposes. See the opioid problem we all have. There's no conspiracy. The gov't want that dough from the huge MJ market. THAT is the driving force in thi move to legalize. There's another discussion here on the possible uses of MJ.
originally posted by: intrepid
a reply to: one4all
You have to step back from the conspiratorial ledge. Prisons are a drain on the public coffers. Not a profitable business. I don't care how many words you use, I work in this industry. Read that thread on the uses of MJ. Research into the medicinal value of MJ is going to crank up. Legalization isn't going to impede this. It will accelerate it. You know the gov't does get one right now and then.
originally posted by: snowspirit
a reply to: DrumsRfun
I'm disturbed by the driving aspect of this. They're putting the legal blood levels so low, and the cops have no clue, except maybe in BC, we'll be illegal if we smoke or eat an edible and then drive within the next month...
I'm quite sure they don't yet have a test that tells that consumption was in the last few hours. It's more like "if the cop feels like you might be high".
Blood tests could take most of Canada off the road.....
originally posted by: Xaphan
originally posted by: snowspirit
a reply to: DrumsRfun
I'm disturbed by the driving aspect of this. They're putting the legal blood levels so low, and the cops have no clue, except maybe in BC, we'll be illegal if we smoke or eat an edible and then drive within the next month...
I'm quite sure they don't yet have a test that tells that consumption was in the last few hours. It's more like "if the cop feels like you might be high".
Blood tests could take most of Canada off the road.....
That's exactly the problem. I'm no expert, but I've heard that THC takes a very long time to metabolize and stays in your system for up to eight days after just one use? Is that accurate? Either way, I know that it's nothing like alcohol; with alcohol you can have one or two beers, piss them out, and be safely driving three or four hours later. With weed on the other hand, you could smoke a little bit to get you moderately buzzed, wait a few hours for it to wear off and feel cognitively normal again, but you'd still be legally impaired because the THC is still coursing around in your bloodstream. In the eyes of the law, you basically won't be allowed to drive if you've smoked in the last 24 hours, or maybe even more than that.