XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.atheism, talk.religion.misc   
   From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:57:19 -0400, Christopher A. Lee wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:51:06 -0700 (PDT), Uncle Vic    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Mar 25, 7:38 am, "Pro-Humanist FREELOVER"    
   >>wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> If passed, California would have the most comprehensive laws on legal   
   >>> marijuana in the entire world, advocates say. Opponents are confident   
   >>> they will easily defeat the mea- sure.   
   >>   
   >>I'm for it.  Not because I've smoked it myself or want to smoke it   
   >>myself.  I believe it will put a lot of bad apples out of business, just   
   >>like the repeal of prohibition back in the '30s.  I'd like to see the   
   >>same for cocaine, except put behind the pharmacy counter - prescriptions   
   >>only - and put the cartels out of business.  Yeah, as if.   
   >   
   > That's basically what my neighbour said in the 1980s before I emigrated   
   > from the UK to the USA - and he was an inspector in the Greater Manchester   
   > Police's drug squad. It would keep ordinary people away from the bad   
   > apples. Most of his work was going after the dealers and smugglers but he   
   > still had to follow the law with users.   
      
   I just heard of a new wrinkle in the marijuana laws: employers can fire   
   people for failing a drug screening test because they are (legally) using   
   marijuana.  There's nothing in the laws that protects medical marijuana   
   users from such discrimination.   
      
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