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Originally posted by Pete:
Treat marijuana just like cigarettes. You want to smoke dope then make sure you don't work for a company that drug tests it's employees.
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But, who wants to make a bet against the possibility that within a short period of time of legalizing marijuana there will be a push to prevent employer drug testing for marijuana since the smoking of it will, at that time, be a legal act.
There will be the inevitable comparisons to alcohol being consumed by employees on their own time and the fact that there is very little, if any, testing for alcohol at the workplace, so why should there testing for marijuana.
Marijuana users will cry that they are being discriminated against and we all know how Liberals feel about discrimination. The Libs will then take the dopers under their wing and pacify these poor, discriminated against, pot smokers.
Whose to say that it will not eventually become a civil rights issue. I think that twenty-five years ago most of us would have declared that gays and such would never be allowed to act openly within the ranks. Then came DADT and now the new policy is being hailed as a civil rights victory.
If this sounds a little far-fetched, maybe it is. But let's compare it to this philosophy: If we allow the Liberals to pass their gun control laws that make extended magazines and assault rifles illegal, they will then be full of themselves and try to take away pistols and concealed weapons permits throughout the country. After doing away with those they will then go after the hunter's everyday hunting rifle, shotgun and hunting bow (animals have rights too).
I do not thinking that I am going too far out on a limb in saying that most on this forum would agree that this could or would be the Liberals' idea of the natural progression of gun laws.
I know that I am mixing a few apples and oranges but there is a definite parallel between the two ideas. Obviously, the outcome will be determined by the present administration and legislature, but I trust neither and actually I have now scared the shit out myself thinking what things could be like if Obama gets re-elected. I hope that I am not being paranoid.
Just my $00.02.
Tress