Quote Originally Posted by HighPopalorum
Five months ago you were singing her praises, starting threads urging us to vote for her, but now she's an unforgivable life-destroying menace? You can't tell friend from foe, Copobo, but your mercurial temperament livens up the place.
Come on. You know that its a red herring whether or not copobo supported her before or not. It has no bearing on whether or not he judges her actions now to be good. A policitian can lose supporters for any number of reasons: she's making a genuine mistake, she genuiningly believes this bill to be beneficial to her constituants and supporters, perhaps she is showing her true colors now and was never to be trusted? Whatever the case may be, I feel that your opinion on a bill that could negatively effect the lives of MMJ patients is too strongly influenced by your personal lack of concern for the issue, because as you've stated you don't mind restricting yourself to a no-driving policy on days that you smoke--an impractical rule for many patients.

This argument boils down to a single issue for me at this point. Setting a (what many consider to be low) limit disproportionately benefits law enforcement over citizens, because the citizens in this case have no real, practical means for judging their THC limit before leaving the house! Most patients can judge their impairment level in order to drive, which currently works decently. But with a limit in place, it doesn't matter if you can drive well or not--all that matters is the damn number which no patient has the means to personally test for before driving. Unless you want to send them to a police station or hospital to test themselves everytime they want to go to the store. Or perhaps patients should be required to purchase home blood test kits or have nurses on standby in their homes?

The limit, the number, without regard for practical impairment level, only benefits law enforcement in the form of a political and financial campaign.