Reading through this thread is interesting. Sounds like a few more folks have seen
Reefer Madness than have read
The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Marijuana... Pot.... Dope... Sounds like the old-guard not wanting to admit they've always been wrong, carrying the torch for the wrong cause, with the wrong information, misled by propaganda the entire way... It is cannabis folks, mostly hybrids of sativa and indica, but there are other family members out there. It is a cousin to hops and hackberries for goodness sake!
Seeing as how the prohibition of cannabis began as A) a way of discriminating against black men (as the white male population was scared that black men would use cannabis with white women to "lure" them in sexually, same was claimed about cocaine); and B) DuPont had created nylon out of petrolium and feared that the massive hemp production in the US for the war effort would be turned into a competing product at the war's end -> hence the "Marihuana Tax Act of 1937". In 1937 you had to show them the goods to get the tax stamp. However if you were in possession of the goods without the stamp, you were committing a crime. Gotta enjoy how government uses the Catch 22 to their advantage. Gotta enjoy big business butting in way back in 1937.
Over the years, it turned in to an extremely convenient way to discriminate against a subset of society deemed "undesireable" by government and law enforcement. Since science and medicine were banned from even discovering any useful or revolutionary breakthroughs involving cannabis extracts, the juggernaut simply kept its pace at tossing "dopeheads" or "potheads" in prison to feed the system. And the '60s only exacerbated the situation since the hippies were waving the flag - double whammy of undesirable!
Pre-employment drug screening seems like nothing more than legal discrimination. I personally have had to deal with "tweakers" whom I suspected heavily of white powder activity but passed the UA I administered where the non-problematic "pothead" fails and I was forced to send them down the road. I've dealt with 100% functioning alcoholics who were 1st to a 7:00 safety meeting, worked until told they were done then retreated to their hotel room for the night to drink 2 cases of beer!
There is also very strong evidence that if this country were to turn its foolish ethanol program into a hemp oil program, we would be able to significantly decrease our dependance on foreign fossil fuels within a 10 year period. Growing upwards of 3 crops per year would also help to counteract the CO2 problem "greenhouse" gasses as I think they refer to them as.
But I certainly would avoid traveling to CO to smoke legal cannabis as an employer can and probably will fire you for whatever they desire, including cannabis consumption. My guess is that a good 10 or 20 more years will be required for the laws and attitudes to come in line with how the majority of folks feel about this divisive topic.
Personally, I'd rather have a crew of cannabis users than tweakers or drunks. Far easier to administer. And like someone already pointed out, the trick is to just stare intently to get what you want...
