re: #149 HappyWarrior

No, you didn’t. I am just saying that we can place the same stipulations on marijuana usage that we do with alcohol. People say “Oh if you legalize marijuana, people will drive under the possession of it.” Have similar laws to driving under the influence of alcohol.

It is the testing for “under the influence” that has been a problem with weed that I remember hurting the enforcement part. Things might have gotten better in detection, but I remember that there was a problem in that respect. THC gets metabolized in the body and hangs around for a long while. Trying to detect (like in a BAC test for alcohol) the amount in the system that was recently ingested has been elusive. And unlike most other drugs (alcohol, speed, meth, heroin, etc) that the body purges as soon as it can, the fat cells like THC and its metabolites. Hard to tell if it was recently ingested or had been stored 2 weeks ago.