re: Legalize marijuana use the taxes for the budget

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Wait, you'd want to punish people who used a legal product on their own time? You realize it can still be detected in your system LONG after the effects have worn off, right?

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Not punish, just maintain the norm. There are tons of people who currently smoke marijuana and get drug tested, and somehow they maintain employment...

This is also the real reason why it hasn't been done. There are some jobs that, for safety reasons, require the employee to be drug free. Mainly because deadly accidents can occur. That needs to remain in place. However the legal aspects that will arise from an accident by someone testing positive for a "legal substance" will be huge. So having anyone currently drug testing to continue after "legalization" is probably the best effort at meeting half way on the matter. You would also have to get rid of the insurance "discount" companies get by drug testing their employees. Test or no test (for marijuana), it should be same price either way. I'm not a lawyer, so I couldn't begin to form the legal language necessary for something like that. But I know it's the only thing holding legalization back.