Probably the same way an alcohol breathalyzer works. It gets absorbed into your bloodstream, some settles into your lungs for a bit and a certain amount of trace elements are expelled when you breathe. Maybe?
I think it is logical that legalization is better. Also there are a lot of things not illigal who do more harm(alcohol, tabaco etc.) I have said this before, in the netherlands we have NO problems with people who smoke weed. Thay cause NO problems. I have never used any type of drugs(so i also never smoke weed).
As far as I know, it works in much the same way as the alcohol breathalyzer does. It detects the concentration of exhaled THC, which is the active ingredient in mar1juana and the only way to accurately measure the level of use, short of a blood test. Not really. The best way to start would be to remove mar1juana from the Controlled Substances Act's scheduling list at the federal level. Then, the states could create their own regulations as they see fit. Some states would likely regulate it immediately and some states would choose to stay "dry," with most somewhere in between, I would suspect. As more research and factual information comes out, the country would soon end up with a fairly consistent policy much like we have now with alcohol and tobacco. Too soon to tell in Denver (it has been less than a year), but in places where they have had legal medical mar1juana acts in place for a while (CA, OR, WA), they have seen significant decreases in usage by minors which is, IMO, the single biggest problem with regards to drug use in this country. In Seattle, the King County Bar Association called for regulated mar1juana, and since the "lowest law enforcement priority" initiative (I-75 in 2003), they have seen good results including far lower arrest rates for mar1juana and a slight reduction in teenage usage. Visit the following link for a good article on the effects of I-75 in Seattle. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=25507
the best thing about the controlled substances act is that marajuana is a schedule 1 drug (meaning high potential abuse with no potential medical benefit) while cocaine is a schedule 2 drug (high potential abuse but has medical benefits) As for the illegality of cannabis, its pretty funny how it got added to the list. Cannabis originally wasn't on the list of controlled substances. But in the 30s and early 40s it got added to the federal list at the request of the timber industry which saw hemp as a cheaper alternative to lumber produced paper. Interests in the timber industry as well as other major corporations saw hemp as a major threat to their various industries and got it banned entirely. Nicotine on the other hand had the reverse happen to it. Nicotine was originally on the list and tobacco companies got it off of the list thanks to some nifty lobbying.
The exception was during WWII, when the government had an initiative called "Hemp for Victory" in which they gave away high quality industrial hemp seed for farmers to grow to help outfit the military with a wide variety of items. After the war, the program was ended and industrial hemp again became a no-no, but since it is a weed and grows virtually anywhere, strains of this hemp still grow in the wild. By some estimates, about 80% of the "mar1juana" that is eradicated in this country is the so-called "ditchweed" left over from the WWII initiative.
Kinky must win!!!!! The thing I hate most is drug tests for obtaining jobs..... It is none of their business what I do in my free time... Some guy could go home every day after work and drink a 12 pack of keystone, beat his wife, and kill kittens... but if he smokes a joint OMG... denied Seriously.. Who started the pre-employment drug test?? Do companies get an insurance discount for doing it?? If I owned a company I would never subject my employees to that.. Someone up thread said companies can hire whomever they want to... that is NOT true... I can't go out and hire only white people to work at my place... I can't go out and hire only people that don't have speeding tickets... but weed is DIFFERENT? give me a break
If they do legalize mar1juana I believe they should make it basically IF YOU GROW IT YOURSELF ON YOUR OWN PROPERTY YOU CAN HAVE IT. However, it is a crime to bring outside of your property (FINE), a crime to sell on the street (FINE), a crime to steal others property (FELONY), a crime to commit an accident that influence can be attributed to (MISD. and Probation that does not allow the use of mar1juana until probation is fulfilled). ITS JUST A THEORY THAT I HAVE THAT WOULD PREVENT MASS PRODUCTION OF mar1juana THAT COULD LEAD BIG COMPANIES TO EVENTUALLY USE HARMFUL PERHAPS PESTICIDES OR OTHER CHEMICALS THAT COULD LEAD TO CHEMICAL DEPENDENCE and thus CRIMINALiZING mar1juana ONCE AGAIN ON THE EVIDENCE THAT IS CHEMICALLY ADDICTIVE. IF YOU WANT IT, GROW IT< BUT KEEP AT YOUR HOUSE!
**** wtf was he doing? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9mXTxEQI3A this is over a year old. http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/15563098.htm - i didn't read the article, but i'm sure it's taking his quotes out of context... this can't be good.
I love this comment on the youtube page.. Haha. Negro is a racist term?! LOL. Better inform the United Negro College Fund!
you do raise a good point.... this is actually probably good news because if the pols are tryin to bring this up, it must mean kinky is doing better than appears.
