time for a new contract w/America

[dolfan]

Dolfan wrote:

a repeal of all criminal penalties for the possession, use or sale of any controlled substance and an immediate cessation of all federal funding to the States for the purposes of drug law enforcement;

I tend to agree Dolfan but I have a question since you seem to have thought this out. How would you deal with the other issues of drug use such as driving or operating machinery at work. ie safety issues. How much THC in you system impairs you from doing surgery or flying a passenger aircraft. We have established legal limits for alcohol. Now will we have to have established limits for all drugs? Will you be able to terminate an employee for having traces of a legal substance in her system?

Having asked these questions, I do know that the drug laws must be changed. We cant build enough jails to house the drug offenders. They clog the system to the point that violent offenders and some time sex offenders get probation when they need to be separated from society.

Those problems exist now and are adequately enough addressed for most of us. You can terminate employees now, for example. I fired a girl at our convenience store just about 6 weeks ago for taking a Xanax that wasn't hers while she was working. Legal or not, that problem is and will exist. Employers now screen employees for drugs and can fire them in most states (except for some union jobs, which no one will ever find a solution for, but that's another issue) for positive screens.

Understand that my view is not that drug use is good, but that criminalization is much worse for our society than decriminalization.