How angry are you?

[MaryLane]

Well, they can legally fire you for failing a drug test, however, if I am not mistaken, they are required by law to allow you to retake. You'd have to double check with your lawyer on this one.

If all is as you say, then you may have grounds for a lawsuit, but again, only your lawyer can really answer that for you.

I'd be pretty pissed off in your position, and I really hope everything gets resolved to your satisfaction. I think they should be required to prove that your marijuana usage is affecting your work.

[slavetopot]

Thanks, I don't want the job, I just want to stick it to them hard. Let them run around and check and re-check to make sure everything was done correctly. I do have my co-worker who was at the lab at the time of the test and she said that the lady who called my employer was talking very loud, and it is against the confidentiality's thing that you can't do that. EVERYBODY IN THAT WAITING ROOM KNEW WHAT HAPPENED TO ME!!!!!!!!! So if they want to play hard ball we can do that, but it is nice to let my lawyer just do all the work, I hate those fucks

[MaryLane]

Yep, definitely let your lawyer take care of it. They'll probably be much more calm than you. :rasta::rasta:

[netdog]

Pot is still illegal because any elected official that tries to get it legalized in Washington is committing political suicide and he knows it.

It's all in education.

You guys have seen Reefer Madness, it was in it's day a "documentary" type presentation. And it wasn't even the tip of the iceberg. There was a huge propaganda campaign that actually convinced most people of the time that pot made you a raving phsycho, sex fiend, mass murderer and it was dangerous. They even threw in the race card and said it made blacks insane and had to be outlawed.

That's what the post WWII generation was indoctrinated with for decades. I'm old enough to have lived in the tail end of those times, but young enough to have laughed it off.

But the people who vote most consistently, who decide most elections are the folks older than me that sincerely believe pot is evil. My own parents did, they are in their 80's. They have since come around and realized it's nothing like they were told and both even though they don't like pot agree it should be legal.

Pot will only be legalized when that generation dies off and the Vietnam war era folks are the 80 year olds and in charge and voting.

Even then it will be hard to get a politician to risk his career trying to get it legalized in congress. There's simply nothing in it for him but loss of votes, no reason to try.

If a politician thought that legalizing pot would gain him more votes, he would try to get it done, or at least promise he would during a campaign.

If all pot smokers made it clear somehow that they would get out and vote for pro pot politicians, meaning money and lobbying.

[FLORIDA MON]

Everyone has every right to be pissed.

[MaryLane]

Don't forget DuPont and Hearst deliberately lying about marijuana to Congress and anyone else who would listen (which was a great number of people considering Hearst...).

Pot is still illegal because any elected official that tries to get it legalized in Washington is committing political suicide and he knows it.

It's all in education.

You guys have seen Reefer Madness, it was in it's day a "documentary" type presentation. And it wasn't even the tip of the iceberg. There was a huge propaganda campaign that actually convinced most people of the time that pot made you a raving phsycho, sex fiend, mass murderer and it was dangerous. They even threw in the race card and said it made blacks insane and had to be outlawed.

That's what the post WWII generation was indoctrinated with for decades. I'm old enough to have lived in the tail end of those times, but young enough to have laughed it off.

But the people who vote most consistently, who decide most elections are the folks older than me that sincerely believe pot is evil. My own parents did, they are in their 80's. They have since come around and realized it's nothing like they were told and both even though they don't like pot agree it should be legal.

Pot will only be legalized when that generation dies off and the Vietnam war era folks are the 80 year olds and in charge and voting.

Even then it will be hard to get a politician to risk his career trying to get it legalized in congress. There's simply nothing in it for him but loss of votes, no reason to try.

If a politician thought that legalizing pot would gain him more votes, he would try to get it done, or at least promise he would during a campaign.

If all pot smokers made it clear somehow that they would get out and vote for pro pot politicians, meaning money and lobbying.

[netdog]

Don't forget DuPont and Hearst deliberately lying about marijuana to Congress and anyone else who would listen (which was a great number of people considering Hearst...).

Exactly, those decades of propaganda are still overshadowing the politics of pot today.

Education of the masses of older folks is where it's at, get the AARP behind it type of organizing.

What got my stodgy old parents behind it was the statistics of so many people jailed over it, and the cost to the country more than anything.

Prison costs and numbers of people in overcrowded prisons might just be the ticket to get it legalized in the end. Nobody likes to pay taxes and pot prohibition costs us about 25 billion a year, when it could be bringing in 100 or so billion in taxes.

It would even give big tobacco a clean way out of cigarrettes, tobacco farmers a clean way out of tobacco farming etc. The tax infrastructure is already there, the farms are there, the plants for curing, blending rolling and packaging are there... It would be so easy and good for the country.

[rebgirl420]

How angry?

Well, I'm so mad that I constantly get the urge to go tip something over or light a dumpster on fire whenever I see those god damn Truth commercials for Pot.

Damnit, now I'm all pissed off just thinking about it...WTF DOES A DOG TALKING TO YOU OR A ALIEN STEALING YOUR GIRLFRIEND HAVE TO DO WITH POT?

[humedi]

the situation in england as it stands is that PM gordon brown (unelected, took office with his own agenda in mind) will press on with his efforts to reschedule ganj from a class C drug to a class B drug. it shouldn't be class anything.

In upgrading cannabis, he is expected to go against the expert opinion of his OWN advisors, who recommend cannabis remains class C.

Aside from the fact that the medical community contiues to be ignored, to further add salt to the wound, one of the reasons given for reclassification is tougher penalties for dealers.
well, as it stands under class C dealers get upto 14 yrs max, users get upto 2 yrs. whereas under class B dealers would still get 14 yrs, except me and you would get 5 years. THE CHANGE TARGETS THE USERS JUST AS MUCH AS DEALERS

Also, G.Brown says the reason for this is to send the message to youth that cannabis is dangerous and harmful 'just like alcohol' - despite this bein bollocks WHAT POSSIBLE JUSTIFICATION CAN THEY HAVE FOR ALLOWING ALCOHOL BUT NOT WEED

I am so detached and disilusioned with this government at the moment it truly is crap if Brown gets his way

[MaryLane]

No fucking shite right?

Damnit, now I'm all pissed off just thinking about it...WTF DOES A DOG TALKING TO YOU OR A ALIEN STEALING YOUR GIRLFRIEND HAVE TO DO WITH POT?