Medical Marijuana and CDL

Guess all those people who can't make it through the day without coffee or a cigarette shouldn't be driving trucks either since caffeine and nicotine are DRUGS and that makes them DRUG ADDICTS.

Chill the F out dude, you're the only one on that bandwagon. This isn't a thread about whether cannabis in any form or measurement is right or wrong. Go start your own if you want to talk about that. I for one, am interested to see how this whole situation plays out with the OP

 

Some ppl sure do go over the top on some things don't they.lol

 

I get high on life

 

Brett Wilson has both invested in, and raised a fair amount of money for, medical marijuana. The Aurora facility is just a couple miles from my buddy's place. They've got big plans.

 

Cigarettes and coffee render you impaired?

 

None of this is applicable in Canada.

 

No federal laws requiring drug testing in Canada.

 

Oh, now you want to split hairs. Impaired is a highly subjective term in this case. As the OP has pointed out, he's impaired without it.

Either way, that's not the subject of this thread

 

If a driver is Canada-only, as the OP has stated he is/will be, then there is no federal drug testing.

 

National Safety Code (NSC) Standard 6: Medical Standards for Drivers - December 2015

Chapter 15: Drugs and Driving

15.3 Psychotropic drugs and adverse driving outcomes

Cannabis

A meta-analysis completed by Elvik found that cannabis elevated the relative risk of crashing to 1.3, a rather modest amount and about the same as the case of anti-depressants according to the study.i A Canadian systematic review led by Asbridge found that cannabis use elevated the relative risk of a crash to 1.92.ii Similarly, the first US large-scale case control study found less evidence of a marijuana crash risk problem and when adjusted for demographic variables like age, gender and ethnicity, the relative crash risk associated with marijuana fell to just 1.05.iii (These numbers contrast with alcohol where relative risk ratios of around 2 may be associated with Blood-Alcohol Concentration (BAC) levels even below .05, and as BAC levels rise the relative risk of crashing escalates into the hundreds or even thousands). These marijuana crash risk studies reflect both the drivers who legally and illegally used cannabis and the results of each are therefore potentially impacted by confounding demographic variables including that many of the drivers were young and male and therefore have an inherently higher crash rate already.

In summary, caution should be exercised as cannabis use remains associated with abmodestly higher crash risk and is known to impair psychomotor skills and abilities related to divided attention, lane tracking and cognitive functions.

Some users of medical cannabis exceed the average usage rate of 1.5 grams per day. Drivers using cannabis in quantities exceeding this should be counselled to not drive during such periods. In addition, any person prescribed medical cannabis for the first time should be counselled to not drive until the effect of the drug on the person has been established by a monitoring physician.

http://ccmta.ca/images/CCMTAMedicalStandardsDec12015finalcleancopyJune22016edit.bookmarkspdf.pdf pg. 216