Tennessee considering legalizing marijuana for medical purposes

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KB5252 said:
What would this do random drug testing? I know I wouldn't feel comfortable working on a job site around people operating machinery who might be stoned or drunk for that matter.
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i doubt they could be fired for something prescribed from a doctor; plus the people who were given it medically would be given asked to give proof from the doctor (and i'm sure the site would check with the doctor as well); those that couldn't would just be busted for marijuana use...illegally

as for the comfort think, from what i remember about medicine and the situations medical marijuana would be prescribed....almost all those people aren't going to be in a state where the would be operating heavy machinery at the time or anything dangerous on site anyways
 
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OrangeWilly said:
You could still, as an employer, test for it and deny employment on a failed test.
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it'd be like testing for anything medically, so it's a thin road based off of unless something that you wouldn't be able to physically do

again alot of it would have to do with proof from the doctor and then discussion with the doctor as well
 
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If it is legalized, what would all the Sheriff's Department's in the state do for photo ops?? Oh wait, they could focus all their efforts on "Redneck Crack", that would be a great start to some actual police work that would get some REAL sicko people off the streets. Marijuana should be legal, and it could fund MANY programs.
 
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If mary jane is legalized, I see the rural counties just going after meth users and dealers. Which, actually, is what they should be doing right now.
 
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I'm fairly confident TN will be one of the last states to legalize. This is good legislation but it will be hard to get anything to pass. Literally, we are the buckle of the Bible Belt.
 
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aaronrockies said:
I'm fairly confident TN will be one of the last states to legalize. This is good legislation but it will be hard to get anything to pass. Literally, we are the buckle of the Bible Belt.
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First post is a bump of an 18 month old thread about pot in the poli forum? I'm impressed.
 
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Well, I wasn't around when this thread was hot, but I still wanna weigh in, so here goes...

What I put in my body is exclusively my business. Crimes demand victims. You can't victimize yourself.

Basic idea of freedom. My body is mine and therefore I can do whatever I want with it as long as I do not use it to initiate force, steal or defraud someone else.

What I would like to know is how someone can argue that abortion is ok, because it is a woman's body and her right to choose, but will tell that same woman she can't smoke pot. One obviously ends a human life, the other obviously does not. Still, there are many who will fight you to the death over the right to do one and not to do the other. Senseless.
 
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aaronrockies said:
I'm fairly confident TN will be one of the last states to legalize. This is good legislation but it will be hard to get anything to pass. Literally, we are the buckle of the Bible Belt.
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This is one of the personal freedoms conservatives dont like. They do like to run around chest pounding personal freedoms though, strange.
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volinbham said:
I saw a CNBC special and part of it focused on some county in Cali. that had legalized the growing for "personal use". Man those folks must smoke a bag a day to use all they were growing.

Basically weed growing has taken over the town.

I'm all for decriminalizing or legalizing it. Maybe making it legal for everyone to grow their own would lower the incidents of major growers/dealers and the crime that follows.
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You can grow for more than personal use if you are a caregiver, TIFWIW
 
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Just out of curiosity, do you think that legalizing it and taxing it will stop the black market? It would certainly lead to a reduction in justice department expenses and prison population and cost and a increase in tax revenue. But if it is legalized, then it will come with a boatload of restrictions on where you can buy it, grow it, smoke it, how strong it can be, when it can be sold. People think if weed is legalized it's going to be some fantasy land where you can take bong rips waiting in line at McDonald's or in a movie theater. The government would never let that happen. And in the end, it will be so over-regulated that most people will probably go back to the black market where they could get cheap, non-taxed weed.

My point is that completely legalizing weed would theoretically be great, but it creates a lot of other problems and issues that might end up being as expensive to solve as the problems and issues right now.

I say decriminalization is a much better solution.
 
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VolinMichigan said:
Just out of curiosity, do you think that legalizing it and taxing it will stop the black market? It would certainly lead to a reduction in justice department expenses and prison population and cost and a increase in tax revenue. But if it is legalized, then it will come with a boatload of restrictions on where you can buy it, grow it, smoke it, how strong it can be, when it can be sold. People think if weed is legalized it's going to be some fantasy land where you can take bong rips waiting in line at McDonald's or in a movie theater. The government would never let that happen. And in the end, it will be so over-regulated that most people will probably go back to the black market where they could get cheap, non-taxed weed.

My point is that completely legalizing weed would theoretically be great, but it creates a lot of other problems and issues that might end up being as expensive to solve as the problems and issues right now.

I say decriminalization is a much better solution.
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Legalization worked with alcohol.
 
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