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To: i-node who wrote (652585)	4/24/2012 12:05:25 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) of 1582940

Alaska had fully legalized marijuana from 1975 to 1990. Citing stats for 2007 doesn't seem relevant. The voters of AK chose to change that: ballotpedia.org There was a ballot initiative to legalize it again in 2004. It failed: ballotpedia.org Here are some arguments pro and con: freakonomics.com One thing, it doesn't seem that marijuana is a benign drug to be using: ... In 1985, Stanford University conducted a study of airline pilots who each consumed a low grade marijuana cigarette before entering a flight simulator involving a stressful, yet recoverable scenario. The test resulted in numerous crashes. More alarming was the fact that the pilots again crashed the simulator in the same scenario a full 24 hours after last consuming marijuana, when they all showed no outward signs of intoxication, reported feeling “no residual effects” from the drug, and each also stated they had “no reservations” about flying! Part of the problem with marijuana is that Delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana that gives the user his or her high, is absorbed into the fatty tissues of the body where it remains for at least several days, and can continue to have an adverse impact on one’s ability to act capably under stress days after the drug was last ingested. If healthy pilots can’t respond effectively in the cockpit 24 hours after smoking a low-grade marijuana cigarette, do we really want our kids transported to and from school by a school bus driver who smoked one or two joints the night before? How do we ensure the cop on the beat, who’s carrying a badge and gun, hasn’t smoked marijuana 24 hours before entering onto duty once the drug is legal? And what about those pilots? .... I figure legalization in today's world would turn pot use into a civil right and drug tests for employees would be attacked until eliminated.

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