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   tiny dancer to Lobby Dosser   
   Re: "It's just pot.": Double Standard?   
   17 Jul 07 17:05:26   
   
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   From: tinydancer357@hotmail.com   
      
   "Lobby Dosser"  wrote in message   
   news:4N9ni.4589$4J4.4198@trndny05...   
   > "nimue"  wrote:   
   >   
   > > Lobby Dosser wrote:   
   > >> "nimue"  wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >>> Lobby Dosser wrote:   
   > >>>> "nimue"  wrote:   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>>> Lobby Dosser wrote:   
   > >>>>>> "nimue"  wrote:   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>> What kind of lifestyle do you think people who smoke pot live?   
   > >>>>>>> They are just like anyone else, except they smoke pot.  This guy   
   > >>>>>>> clearly paid his bills and did his job.  The only problem I have   
   > >>>>>>> with him -- and it's a BIG one -- is his hypocrisy in supporting   
   > >>>>>>> the random testing of students for drugs.  THAT is not good.   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> What if he drinks a beer now and then? That bother you?   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> No.  Why would it?  I don't care if he smokes pot, so why would I   
   > >>>>> care if he had a beer?   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> But you think he's a hypocrite.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> I think it is hypocritical to force students to undergo drug testing   
   > >>> when you yourself are doing drugs.  Don't you?  He is supporting and   
   > >>> enforcing a policy that is meant to expose and punish students who   
   > >>> are doing something he clearly thinks it is all right to do.  That's   
   > >>> hypocritical.  Do you not agree?  And can you tell me how having a   
   > >>> beer fits in there?   
   > >>>   
   > >>   
   > >> I expect that any student known to be drinking would be punished.   
   > >> What's the difference?   
   > >   
   > > If a student is reeling around drunk in the school's halls, he can be   
   > > punished.  If he gets drunk on the weekend, far away from school, I   
   > > don't see how that is any of the school's business.  However, if a kid   
   > > smokes pot on the weekend and then is drug tested during the week, his   
   > > urine (I assume it's a urine test) will turn up dirty.   
   >   
   > Will it? How long before it's sufficiently out of the system?   
      
      
   Depends upon whether it is naturally expelled from ones system, or if one   
   takes extra *measures* to flush ones system before testing.   
      
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