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Posted by Norcal Dave on Thursday, July 03, 2008 at 19:04:58 :
In Reply to: You're mixing up two completely different things posted by David Sherman on Thursday, July 03, 2008 at 18:44:05 :
They are two different concepts. A) Drugs lead to an unsafe workplace environment and employers are free to try to prevent that. B) Illegal drugs are illegal.
You may believe that pot or crack smoking is harmless, or at least harming only those that chose to participate, and thats your right. And you may feel that laws regulating it are wrong. Thats your right too, but you dont have the right to pick and chose what laws you want to abide by. If you want them changed, speak to your elected officials, or get elected yourself. This is America and you are free to do so, not only free to do so but encouraged to do so. If you can debate the topic with other legislaters and convince them to make pot, crack or whatever other drug legal, by all means do so. If its legal then I have no problem, but I will still always try to prevent workplace or unneccessary accidents.
How about the fella that gets stoned over the weekend, and doesnt have enough sense because his facilities are still impaired come the next work day, that he does something stupid and kills someone? Until you've lost family, friends or employees to some moron who thought he was above the law, and that smoking some dope wouldnt harm anyone, you'll probably not understand.
And who does it harm? How about our troops and law officials having to go into booby trapped potfields in National parks. How about those kids suckered into being mules. How about the insane amount of money we have to pay out to take care of homeless drug addicts or crack babies, that could have put some fire trucks in a rural fire department.
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