Fast card marijuana card (Michigan )

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  1. TLeaHeart

    TLeaHeart Road Train Member

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    It does not matter that one affects a persons reaction time less than the other.... they both affect one's reaction times... and a person needs to understand that all drugs and many foods affect your abilities. Legal or illegal, it is up to the individual person if they choose to use, to understand how it will affect them, and take responsibility for the consequences of their action, and how it may affect others when they climb behind the wheel.
     
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  3. bergy

    bergy Road Train Member

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    IMHO

    Any level of impairment while driving by illegal drugs, prescription drugs, or alcohol should result in a complete permanent ban on a CDL.

    Medical marijuana should be legal for use by CDL holders ONLY when it can be tested for it's current effects on the driver, such as a breathalyzer for alcohol.

    Given a choice and weighing the merits, if anything should be illegal for doing zero good and a lot harm - hands down it would be alcohol and not weed. There isn't a study out there that doesn't support this.
     
  4. LGarrison

    LGarrison Road Train Member

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    Why do you have one?
     
  5. HotH2o

    HotH2o Road Train Member

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    The effects of smoking marijuana lasts for days after. Haha. That's the funniest thing I've read all day. Thanks for the laugh, Roadmedic!
     
  6. Roadmedic

    Roadmedic Road Train Member

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    You did not read all of the thread or the support links presented.

    I do not care if someone smokes it or not. I do not respond to medical calls involving it, since I want no exposure. It is your choice. But the links presented the information and all you have to do is read.
     
  7. BROKENSPROKET

    BROKENSPROKET Medium Load Member

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    In the study, the more impaired a person become on cannabis, the more they refused to even drive. It was quite the opposite for alcohol.

    In the metrics, the most impaired that they would drive before refusing to drive, was equilevant to a .04 BAC.

    I never posted that 'stoned' driving should be legal. Just that stoned driver are safer than drunk drivers.

    Cannabis causes a person to hyperfocus. Multi-tasking becomes more difficult. Driving while stoned creates a stimuli overload on the senses and makes them drive alot more cautiously, that stimuli overload can be so great that creates somewhat of a state of paranioa and may refuse to drive altogether. That cannot be said for alcohol.
     
  8. fastlanedanny

    fastlanedanny Light Load Member

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    Lmao, you grew up in a different time, different place around different kind of people (s). Personally I do not do drugs.However, I did smoke weed for 12 years and experiment with other drugs including coke and x. Fortunately under federal law I cannot be discriminated against because of drug use in the past. Unfortunately there are drivers who dont follow the rules especially with weed and abuse it daily with no regards. They smoke it in the woods at rest stops and even behind the curtains in trucks.Some smoke it after work at home.Usually these people are sober before work unless they partied extra hard. Some of these guys are obviously idiots. But I will say that some of these guys are smart with their habits. They have stuff that can clean their whole systems including hair! No worries about any rapid drug tests from dot being that they can detox immediately after smoking or before they reach a terminal. I've been around these guys and they would brag about how "untouchable" they are. With that said unless the technology for detection advances faster than detox technology you will probably have to give lie tests to prove usage among a lot of drivers. Drivers are gonna smoke weed now and in the future under the radar just like the sub tanks that import these drugs. I dont agree with it and feel like any profession that involves being safe should outlaw drugs no matter what laws are passed. At the same time what can we really do? We are in losing battle and weed just about got its foot on the industrys neck.
     
  9. TLeaHeart

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    hyperfocus, also called tunnel vision... or focusing only on what is in front of them, and they will never see that car run the stop sign to their left or right...

    Cannabis affects ones ability to safely operate a motor vehicle... Driving is multitasking.... steering, throttle brake control, and most important, processing of the information the person sees.

    Stoned drivers are NO safer than drunk drivers, they are both a danger. And it does not matter if the stoned truck driver is safer when he runs over that line of stopped cars, because he never processed the info that they were stopped, due to being impaired.
     
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  10. bergy

    bergy Road Train Member

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    fastlanedanny - good post, but I have never heard of someone beating a hair test. That is kind of scary. How do these guys detox hair roots? Are you sure these guys weren't just spouting off?

    Also, if you know about this stuff, how close are they to being able to test for MMJ impairment rather than past use? That is what is needed in my opinion.

     
  11. TruckDuo

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    I bring my one hitter with me when I go back on the road. I'll take a hit after my post-trip. I'll smoke a blunt if I'm assigned a hazmat load to calm my nerves.

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