With all the hype and speculation regarding the new Obama Administrations stance on Medical Marijuana and the memo sent down to the DOJ no one seems to have noticed this memo from the Department of Transportation.
In summation the Department of Transportation does not agree with the new directive and will continue to ensure that Medical Excuse Marijuana is not an excuse for pilots, school bus drivers, truck drivers, train engineers, subway operators, aircraft maintenance personnel, transit fire‐armed security personnel, ship captains, and pipeline emergency response personnel, among others to be high. If they fail a drug test, they will be terminated.
I applaud their judgment and am glad to know that at least the transportation department has enough snap to know that marijuana impairs judgment, slows reflexes and is illegal under Federal law.
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It seems that we have a strange double standard in our society when it comes to alcohol vs. marijuana. The legality of alcohol does not legitimate driving in an intoxicated state. Neither would legalizing marijuana. It's ridiculous that someone could be fired from a job they perform well simply because a test determines that the person had injested marijuana up to weeks earlier.
ReplyDeleteI must also disclose that marijuana has nowhere near the negative affect on motor skills or judgement that alcohol has.
This issue is ridiculous really.
Just because a substance is legal to ingest doesn't mean the DOT OKs its use while operating machinery. Its inconsistent with existing policy to apply such a statement to medical cannabis. Does the DOT think a bunch of cancer patients are all of a sudden start driving slowly all over the place? Or that commercial pilots are going to start going "lets light up before the flight the Atlanta". Its called responsible use and it applies to all substances, illegal or not. DOT should continue doing the bangup job they do with the roads and infrastructure vs releasing pointless statements like this.
ReplyDeleteThis is particularly egregious given that the DOT has known for a few decades that marijuana use affects driving to a far lesser degree than a .08% BAC. This is just more of the same old BS, using every means possible to restrict peoples ability to use medical marijuana in a responsbile manner.
ReplyDeleteBTW - for the benefit of the blogger ...
egregious - adj., conspicuously bad, flagrant.
Just out of curiosity, why the hell should I care if something is against Federal Law or not?
ReplyDeleteYou know what else is against Federal Law? Trading my private property, my labor, and keeping 100% of the property I entered into a willing private contract for.
Federal Law outlaws my ability to be secure in my person and property, it outlaws my ability to obtain the tools I determine are best for providing for my own protection, it outlaws my ability to have a police force that is not authorized to confiscate my property for no reason.
Federal Law is rife with B.S. Why should I care about it again?
Let me get this straight. I do not own my body. Is that correct? Because if you think that someone has the authority to tell me what I can and cannot do with my body, so long as I do not violate the natural rights of others, then I do not own it. It is the Government's Property and they merely allow me certain freedoms with it so long as their in a good mood.
It is utterly pathetic that a grown adult supports Prohibition in any form, shape or fashion. The utter inability for people to live as the Free Humans they are, the utter reliance on The State that so many have is shameful. You fear Freedom so much that you advocate the use of Lethal Force to stop people from doing what they damn well please?
Utterly Pathetic.