Zogby has it as 52-37 for. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/06/majority-of-americans-wan_n_198196.html
It's a good test of judgment. Those tests are so easy to beat, and pot is obviously illegal, so if you fail a drug test, you have serious judgment problems. That's a defense of pot argument. Honestly, I don't care about legalization, b/c the same group of people will be getting stoned either way. Make it legal and quit throwing people in jail for it; focus on some real crime. All that said, I have seen it up close and personal just seem to destroy people's drive. *Maybe* it's a chicken and egg thing, as in seriously unmotivated people love pot in this data set, but the correlation is striking. I know that's a cliche, but damn if it doesn't seem true.
I don't really care much about it either. But if you made pot legal, would more people try it, and lead into other drugs?
Really doubt it. Everybody but everybody I've ever met who was at all interested has tried it. The legal barrier just doesn't have much power when you get passed a little joint at a party. If you're interested, you try it; if you're not, you don't. Can't stand the hippie lettuce myself.
Don't forget that there is a temptation to do it because it is illegal. Would those people move onto something else? I know I drank a heck of a lot more before I was 21 than after.
Nope, it's not true all the time. I work for a company that doesn't require drug testing. And yet, we make lots of money!
Companies would prefer robots.They would just get rid of the people all together if they could manage it. Not the managenment guys, they still want to get paid but at the worker bee level, humans are just so much touble with their boredom and preoccupation.
Why would that be the case? Is the inclination of using a mind altering substance like pot make people want to try harder stuff, if that's the case why isn't alcohol illegal also? Or is it that because it's the most mainstream illegal drug, it allows people to dabble in it and get to know some people that can drag them deeper. If that's the case, wouldn't legalizing it solve the gateway issue?
Free coffee was the foundation of America's Industrial Might. Free Coke or Meth might make us competitive again.
I can agree with that. I just think America is better off without the legalization of weed. A lot of people agree and disagree with it. But if people want it legal just to get high, i find it pretty dumb that the govt would want part it that. If it can help save lives, bring more of it on.
I don't know man. I have been tested 3 times out of the last 4 jobs, but it seems to be a big non-issue afterwards. I knew several mj users at these places that tested. The company just didn't care to retest people, even the human resources receptionist was smoking mar1juana. It seemed to be a mere formality for their paperwork. The one job that didn't test.My former boss(Vice-President of Operations) had smoked it and admitted it to us on smoke breaks. Like others said, if you can't stay clean long enough to pass a test, that's guys got priority in the wrong place.
