California would become the first state in the nation to legalize marijuana for recreational use under a bill introduced today

[Retdetsgt]

You can do roadside tests to determine if someone is under the influence of a controlled substance including marijuana. I do the same tests for prescription drugs also. If I determine they are under the influence I arrest them and get a urine or blood (preferably blood). It is charged as a DUI since our vehicle code covers both alcohol and drugs

Yeah, I suspect it's a training issue. Personally, I would have rather taken a beating that process a DUI so I never cared to learn much about it. But I'm sure our traffic guys are pretty good at recognizing it since our code covers both too.

[pgg]

Yeah, I suspect it's a training issue. Personally, I would have rather taken a beating that process a DUI so I never cared to learn much about it. But I'm sure our traffic guys are pretty good at recognizing it since our code covers both too.

DUIs are easy just time consuming. I like doing them and getting them off the street. People complain about doing traffic collisions, I like them also, they are simple to do.

[Terminator]

Compared to the number of people who are hospitalized and die from the effects of tobacco? How about obesity? Marijuana caused illnesses are a drop in the bucket compared to those.

This involves the legalization of marijuana. Nothing else.

I've been on calls where people OD's on heroin, alcohol, PCP, cocaine and just about everything else, never on a marijuana though. Have you?

Yes.

I bet a huge percentage of people already use it and I doubt that many that don't aren't likely to start just because it's legal. And those probably aren't going to be the ones to OD from it.

So legalize because you bet a lot of people use it? And if you don't think a large group will start using it because it is legal, you are very flawed in your thinking. We will turn in to a nation of even bigger slackers.

As far as definitions of overdosing, hell based on that, I overdose on food periodically. I've never had to go to the hospital one time for it though.

That's your standard dictionary definition for 'overdose,' and it hasn't changed.



So, since you want to legalize it, let's do it. You're in charge Retdetsgt. How do we make it happen? How does our government do this?

[Retdetsgt]

So legalize because you bet a lot of people use it? And if you don't think a large group will start using it because it is legal, you are very flawed in your thinking. We will turn in to a nation of even bigger slackers.

Why do you think they repealed prohibition, Term? Could it be because people were drinking anyway and the illegal sale was promoting criminal activity? You get to a point where it's silly to try to prevent people from doing what they're going to do anyway. Did our society collapse because so many Americans immediately became drunks?

That's your standard dictionary definition for 'overdose,' and it hasn't changed.

No, that was the definition of overdose that you posted.

An excessive dose, especially of a narcotic. It says especially a narcotic, it doesn't say limited to. People die from an overdose of insulin and that's not a narcotic. Overdose is taking too much of anything.

How do we make it happen? How does our government do this?

You musta slept through high school civics.... The same way they repealed prohibition. An act of Congress that also levies a tax on it.

[Retdetsgt]

I don't advocate it at all, but the biggest problem if they legalized all drugs wouldn't be OD's and such, it would be the impact on the economy. You would flood the job market with a LOT of unskilled, unemployed drug dealers.

[Jenna]

I don't advocate it at all, but the biggest problem if they legalized all drugs wouldn't be OD's and such, it would be the impact on the economy. You would flood the job market with a LOT of unskilled, unemployed drug dealers.

I don't know, maybe they could use the skills they learned while drug dealing to sell Avon products or something.

[MacLean]

You can do roadside tests to determine if someone is under the influence of a controlled substance including marijuana. I do the same tests for prescription drugs also. If I determine they are under the influence I arrest them and get a urine or blood (preferably blood). It is charged as a DUI since our vehicle code covers both alcohol and drugs

In my State, you have to be a Drug Recognition Expert for that to fly.

Try finding one when you need one.

I will not support it until a NHTSA approved FST can be used by the average officer.

[Terminator]

Why do you think they repealed prohibition, Term?

My parents weren't even born then, and you were only 18, so who really knows.

[TacticalII]

So if it is legalized, would you be upset if people next to you were toking up? Second hand marijuana smoke?

[MacLean]

Why do you think they repealed prohibition, Term? Could it be because people were drinking anyway and the illegal sale was promoting criminal activity?

Prohibition was repealed because it was unpopular, not specifically because of the illegal activities it supported.

The government would have gladly continued to pursue it, without the public opinion swing.

I suppose the same thing will happen with marijuana eventually, which is all the more reason to prepare for the eventuality.

[Rhino]

o·ver·dose (vr-ds)n. An excessive dose, especially of a narcotic.

That's it, Brad. Win the argument by attrition.

Main Entry: 1over·dose Pronunciation: \ˈō-vər-ˌdōs\ Function: noun Date: 1700 1: too great a dose (as of a therapeutic agent) ; also : a lethal or toxic amount (as of a drug)2: an excessive quantity or amount <an overdose of fun>

The answer, apparently, is "Meriam-Webster" died.

[Terminator]

That's it, Brad. Win the argument by attrition.

Main Entry: 1over·dose Pronunciation: \ˈō-vər-ˌdōs\ Function: noun Date: 1700 1: too great a dose (as of a therapeutic agent) ; also : a lethal or toxic amount (as of a drug)2: an excessive quantity or amount <an overdose of fun>

The answer, apparently, is "Meriam-Webster" died.

The truth is I find your arguments here to be generally pathetic, not well thought out, and very amateur. In short, I don't feel like going through debate number 4,000 with someone like you.

[Rhino]

The truth is I find your arguments here to be generally pathetic, not well thought out, and very amateur. In short, I don't feel like going through debate number 4,000 with someone like you.

Then don't?

I mean it's not like YOU started this thread in the "Crossfire" section or anything, I mean that would be... oh... wait.

[MacLean]

Then don't?

I mean it's not like YOU started this thread in the "Crossfire" section or anything, I mean that would be... oh... wait.

You can take your snide shots over to the forum provided for your rants, or you can get a short and sharp time out for disrespect of Staff on the public forums.

YOUR CALL.

Again, you have carried your hit and run debate style further than is warranted.

Any response posted in here is a violation of TOS, and will result in a little sound and fury.

Feel free to vent in PM.

[Captain America]

We did a search warrant shortly after last Mardi Gras looking for a suspect and/or the handgun he used to shoot at one of my officers. Turns out the suspect's sister was at his apartment visiting from California when we executed the warrant. Lo and behold we search her purse and find it stuffed full of bags of marijuana with prescription labels on it. Of course she smirks at us and tell us it's legal because she has a prescription and there is nothing us backwoods ass cops can do to her because she is from the "Land of Enlightment". I busted her bubble with words to the effect of " Sweetie , your not in California anymore, that's Possession of Marijuana with Intent to Distribute here in Bumfuck ,Egypt." I really enjoyed slapping cuffs on her ignorant , arrogant ass.

[Retdetsgt]

Prohibition was repealed because it was unpopular, not specifically because of the illegal activities it supported.

The government would have gladly continued to pursue it, without the public opinion swing.

I suppose the same thing will happen with marijuana eventually, which is all the more reason to prepare for the eventuality.

Well, yeah. It's public opinion that's pushing the legalization, is it not? Criminalization of marijuana is growing more and more unpopular. It started years ago here in Oregon with the decriminalization of less than one oz.

The people didn't give a rat about the illegal activities of alcohol anymore than they care about the illegal activities of drug dealers now. People wanted booze legal and a lot of people are calling for the legalization of marijuana too. Otherwise, it wouldn't be considered.

The government will gladly pursue anything that soaks up tax dollars.

[Retdetsgt]

So if it is legalized, would you be upset if people next to you were toking up? Second hand marijuana smoke?

Sure, I imagine smoking laws will effect marijuana as well as tobacco. It's becoming more and more illegal to smoke anywhere in public all the time.

[Retdetsgt]

Of course she smirks at us and tell us it's legal because she has a prescription and there is nothing us backwoods ass cops can do to her because she is from the "Land of Enlightment". I busted her bubble with words to the effect of " Sweetie , your not in California anymore, that's Possession of Marijuana with Intent to Distribute here in the Bumfuck ,Egypt." I really enjoyed slapping cuffs on ignorant , arrogate ass.

That's the best story I've read in a long time! Bet she met some nice backwoods ladies in the them thar hillbilly pokeys!

[HudsonHawk]

I suspect that DUI's will increase as will the backlog to the crime labs for blood/urine tests.

It already takes over 4 months here.

[armsmaster270]

If the Bay area morons have a say in it, it will pass.