Drug testing question!!!

This could be so much fun, but I will keep it simple, don't want to stress anyone out. If you are in so much pain you need something to relieve, you need to be in an occupation that does not require you to be behind the wheel.
Now for the OP, I always like the "It's a family business", and ask yourself 1 simple question, do I put my families business and personal property and savings on the line? One day you are out on a run, minding your own business, driving 1 mph under the speed limit, the load is secured properly, and someone not paying attention doesn't stop at the stop sign, you plow into them, and someone has either major injuries, or is most likely killed. You will most likely be taken in for a blood sample. Low and behold, the blood test shows someone has smoked marijuana, could have been just before the accident, could have been a day or two before, the plaintiff's Attorney won't care. Are you at fault, no, but the second they find out you are working as a driver, and have something in your blood test that should not have been there, they will have an Attorney, who will ask for everything you own, your family owns, or will own in the next 20 years. Way to treat your family. Do your family a favor, go elsewhere and get a job if you can't stay away fro the stuff while working for them.

 

Ask your dad

 

@Chinatown .... Betel Nuts?? Kratom???

 

The insurance company will ask for a drug test as well as the company who issues you permits.

 

I have had the displeasure of watching people do things they should not be doing, yet I was able to figure out I should not do what they were doing for my own good. Take some personal responsibility, just because someone else does something does not give anyone else an excuse to do it. This does not however apply to southern peach cobbler fresh out of the oven.

 

@Igmonsta ... I haven't touched weed since I was 14.... and I'm 54 and fine. There ARE alternates to pain control / management. China talks about Betel Nuts, I've never tried them. There are Tens Units (I have one), Lidocaine patches (I get those Rx'd), and there's this herbal thing called Kratom (look it up) that a friend of my wife's takes for cancer as a legal alternative, and no, you don't smoke it. You make a 'tea' out of it, I think..

 

If you are using cannabis for pain you should be using rectal method. There is no euphoric effects and the cannabis bypasses the liver for a more effective relief of pain. Smoking anything is bad for your health. Make healthy choices when using your cannabis.
I would not be surprised if all cannabis prescribed for pain be dispensed as suppositories in the future.

www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/03/05/rectal-marijuana_n_15178784.html

 

I agree with @pattyj

 

If anybody would know it would be the ops dad.If he doesn't then he shouldn't own a trucking company.

 

Truckers smoking in Colorado??????

I've been to Denver ta and Sapp brothers truck stop everyday from Sept-nov of 2015 and never smelled or saw anyone smoking weed. Just because the state says it's OK doesn't mean the fed govt. Has ok'ed cdl holders to smoke.