About pot legalization is the way they had all the enforcement ducks in a row when they rolled it out and onto our streets.
Devices used to track marijuana-impaired drivers are so unpredictable several police forces are waiting for “improved technology,” says a Department of Public Safety report. The disclosure follows warnings by legislators that identifying cannabis users behind the wheel would be difficult: “Given that drug testing has not sufficiently evolved, in your own words, why is your government legalizing?”
And precisely why I lost a $20.00 bet with a chronic user when we were discussing whether or not pot would be legalized.
I posited that the technology to test for stoned drivers was still in the development stage if at all and expected significant push back from law enforcement, Canada’s Dept. of Justice and last but certainly not least from the obnoxious, loud mouthed hens at MAADD.
*crickets* They all folded like cheap suits.
So here we are.
Nice to know my money was used as a partial payment for, in his words “…an awesome bong”.
“They all folded like cheap suits.”
Yeah they did, because do you know how much -money- the #Lieberals made from the weed rollout? They made billions. They made so much fricking money, dude. Probably even more than the windmills. And guess which former Chief of the OPP was on the board of a major weed company? Ask Google, it’ll tell you.
The cops are not here to keep the highways safe, Burton. They’re here to bully the Normies, collect taxes, and crush rebellions.
We are all very lucky that weed is not that entertaining as a recreational drug. This could have been quite ugly.
Marijuana derived “medications” have become the new opioid for the Boomers. I also noticed that those Boomers who like their gummies are much more likely to blindly follow tyrannical government edicts.
I get into many arguments over why locking people out of forests has nothing to do with preventing forest fires. It really made one mad, an avid hunter no less, when I pointed out that the NB Premier’s explanation was bogus. The risk of being permanently lost is there whenever a person ventures into the wilderness.
Hey, have you guys actually worked at a dry cleaners, folding cheap suits? It might be more challenging than you think.
When pot was legalized, I received an email from Transport Canada regarding the use of that stuff by pilots.
For alcohol consumption, a pilot cannot fly as pilot in command for 12 hours after a drink. For Marijuana, that period is 28 days!!
So for police to try and detect that on a driver is an exercise in futility. For sure, the rules are much tighter for pilots, but it strongly suggests that drivers will be adversely affected for several days after smoking a joint.
I’m not sure that’s accurate. I know of airline pilots who have literally lost their class 5 license for DUI and less than 12 hours later they’re at the helm of their plane with their supervisor’s full knowledge of the loss of their license.
Meanwhile I can lose my class 5 for being too intoxicated while operating a canoe.
I guess they need more episode material for “Mayday”.
“it strongly suggests that drivers will be adversely affected for several days after smoking a joint.”
No, it suggests that the people making the rules would like to -pretend- that drivers will be adversely affected for several days. Science? There isn’t any. Like, at all. None.
The truth of the matter is they pulled all that out of their @$$, the exact same way the dentists masks and”six feet for social distancing!” was pulled out of the same place for Covid.
Besides which, they’re letting retarded goat herders who can’t speak, read or write English drive 18 wheelers. So the weed thing doesn’t seem all that urgent, if you ask me.
Good post, The Phantom.
Brings to mind the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
Ross Rebagliati had just won the first Gold Medal in snowboarding and the Americans were steamed.
It seems that Ross could be proven to have used a Performance Enhancing drug.
What was that Performance Enhancing drug? Marijuana. OOPS!
Yeah, like he had 0.00000001mg of THC in his blood because he smoked up four days before the test? That’s the type of thing we’re talking about with the police test. Smoked last week? You might be positive on the test.
It’s -wildly- inaccurate, and does not test for impairment. It is a chemical test for THC, which takes quite a while to fully leave the bloodstream. There’s also the issue that the human body produces “canabinoid-like” hormones all on it’s own, which can show up on the test even if they’ve never had cannabis. False positives are a thing. That’s not good in a legal test. False negatives are allowed, but false positives? You didn’t do it, but you’re busted anyway? It’s bullsh1t, is what it is.
Then there’s the issue of the cop DRAWING YOUR BLOOD on the side of the road. Should they be allowed to do that? No, they really shouldn’t. That’s about the last thing a cop should be allowed to do.
Part of my point was that marijuana was represented to the world at the 1998 winter Olympics as a Performance Enhancer rather than an impairing substance.
Don’t be silly. Marijuana doesn’t IMPAIR driving … it enhances it! It’s a medicine that serves to calm nerves and mellow out the user. You will NEVER see road rage from a marijuana-medicated driver. The worst thing that might happen is a medically-marijuanaed driver frantically reach for her bag of crisps in a fit of munchies.
Marijuana is medicine.
The government is in the business of mandating medicines for the general population … and they should be mandating marijuana for every citizen, and esp. for every driver. Marijuana will save your life, and make our roads – safer.
Isn’t that consistent with the pro-weed messaging that led to its legalization? Have I exaggerated? No. Not in the least.
“Marijuana doesn’t IMPAIR driving…”
Sure it does, when taken in sufficient doses. As in, far greater than medicinal doses. Which are generally very small. Even with THC, the patient isn’t taking enough to get high. But if they get high, they can’t drive. Reaction time becomes seconds, not milliseconds.
But, does it impair driving for -days-? Even after a big fat dose? Or does it wear off in 6 hours like one would expect?
And the answer is: NOBODY KNOWS. Because nobody has bothered to find out. And the mere fact that nobody has been bothered to find out tells you everything you need to know about the regulators and their aims, Kenji.
They’re only pretending, so they can keep their jobs. Pretty annoying, really.
The problem is that the American government has a Prohibition addiction.
Have you consumed one of the prohibited or controlled substances? Yes!
Well then you’re guilty.
Is the guilty person impaired? Who knows, who cares, that person has been doing a no-no.
The devices don’t measure whether or not a person is impaired.
Ever hear of sleep impairment?
How many Doctors/nurses/apothecaries are working back to back shifts?
We need to know whether a person with public responsibilities is impaired on the job.
The answer is to really measure impairment, not ban substance use.
Hold the individual responsible for operating in an impaired state. Yes.
But measure their impairment.
“Measure impairment”?
Hahahahaha ha ha … what’s that? America wasn’t even able to measure the impairment of our President … for FOUR years (and longer). This despite everyone witnessing his impairment in REAL time!
” America wasn’t even able to measure the impairment of our President …”
Wrong.
American Doctors were able to measure Biden’s impairment.
They simply LIED about it and those who lied are still walking around breathing free air unimpaired by shackles or imprisonment.
“ You will NEVER see road rage from a marijuana-medicated driver.“
I trust you were being sarcastic. Drugs affect people differently and marijuana is no different. I can provide two personal examples of stoners getting violent.
Yes, that was sarcasm in the EXTREME. As was all reference to marijuana being a … “medicine”
… so, “why is your government legalizing?”
A: to further disrupt society, the one true goal of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Because Justin the Prime Minstrel wanted his fix without having to deal with the RCMP bitching at him?
The best part is they can’t define what impaired actually is when it comes to cannabis.
Yes, they try but they keep losing interest.