"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
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Glad I could add a data point for you. My personal feelings would be
legalize pot.

Ditto. Fight the war on drugs against the hard or imported stuff and
legalize and tax pot to pay for it.

Though I'd apply the same workplace and driving rules on it that are in
place for alcohol. THe additional factor that makes me not want to hire an
applicant that smokes pot is that if they are willing to break one law
they are probably more willing to break others.

That's a tricky call, because there are a few facets we see here in Oregon:
People who wouldn't take a dollar off an empty street without looking around
to see if somebody might have dropped it, and who wouldn't ever hurt anybody
or mess with their property, but who would violate the MJ laws because they
simply don't like the government telling them what they can't do with their
own bodies.

Another example is a guy I know of who was mugged, stabbed and crippled.
He's been on heavy pain medication for so long it started to change his
personality, so he quit and started smoking pot instead. The state will
allow him to use it for medicinal purposes, but he refused to get licensed
for it because he believes as soon as he does, the Feds have his name on a
list of known users.

The same goes for an applicant with DUI or other alcohol related crimes.

Well, in Oregon you don't go to jail for possessing or using pot but they'll
hammer you for a DUI, which makes sense because the police have figured out
that drunk drivers kill people and pot smokers don't. I liked what some
comedian said about Jerry Garcia, which is that he smoked all the pot in the
world but what actually killed him was too many Twinkies.

-c