If you smell marijuana being smoked by a neighbor in their backyard, should you notify the police?
Wow. Who died and made you the evil cop? Smoking marijuana used to be legal for thousands of years until someone thought of a bigger scheme to support a prison system that did nothing but made US the laughing stock on earth with the highest prisoners count on planet earth. Like they say, good fences made good neighbors, if the fence wouldn't block out the smell then walk inside. Your neighbors are smoking in the privacy of their backyard and you should respect that. That's the law defining property lines so people can enjoy a private life as long as they are not cooking up meth or made their houses into drug factories. Also, please take in consideration that USA is changing its views about marijuana. Colorado, Oregon, Alaska, Washington has legalized the use of cannabis and they are being followed by many others. California has long allowing medical marijuana as a pain relieve medicine for cancer patients. Please spare the law enforcement and personal embarrassment calling the police. Personally, I know of a few friends in the law enforcement who smoke regularly to relieve job stress. I have been around people who are smokers for several decades and never once I see them hurting anybody. It's time to get the record straight that smoking marijuana is not a real crime but a scapegoat of the so called "War on drugs" that has done more harm than good for the society. Scandinavians were smart of never banning marijuana. Now that's what I called a developed country with developed minds.
I just got pulled over by a cop for having synthetic marijanah?
I live in NC. The actual drug charge is comparable to marijuana, but you will also get paraphernalia charges, and likely some sort of product misuse charge added (remember "synthetic marijuana" is NOT a legal drug.. it is legal to buy, sell, and possess in most places, but as a product that is "not intended for human consumption", which legally makes it closer to spray paint.) So, its the added charges that are going to get you. You should talk to a lawyer to get things sorted out though.. NEVER admit to having drugs, black/gray market items to a cop. They make it sound like they will give you a break if you tell them, but charge you with the max if they find it on their own. Of course, you do not want to lie either, but if you had said anything other than, yes, I have xyz, they might have had to find a legal reason for a search warrant, where as you just gave them permission to search and charge. Furthermore, ALWAYS know your local laws. Did you really think that because you can buy smoking blends advertised as incense and spice in the store that it is legal for you to smoke it and get high?? Lots of loopholes in the laws, and the people making the mixes are banking on those loopholes. You need to too, especially if you are going to be breaking the laws. And no, synthetic marijuana is NOT actually synthetic marijuana, and it is very doubtful you had actual synthetic marijuana (there is an rx in the US called marinol that is a synthetic off shoot of delta 9 thc. There are a couple of synthetics that were very close to thc, but they were among the first banned and controlled, so it would be unlikely to still find them being placed in the smoking blends. Most of the chemicals used are cannabanoids, but there are other classes of chemicals available, and that does include things that are more psychedelic and hallucinogenic, especially at large doses. Some of the chemicals that were showing up in the smoking blends, are the SAME chemicals used in gov funded studies that attempt to maintain the current legal status of real marijuana... So, think about that for a minute... The synthetic cannabanoids in question do not resemble delta 9 thc, nor do they behave like delta 9 thc. So, to respond to other comments, YES, there is such a thing as synthetic marijuana, but NO, there is not.
Can nurses with a medical marijuana card smoke weed?
NO. Medical marijuana is still illegal under Federal Law. As an RN you will not be able to work for any medical facility or company that takes any type of Federal funding or insurance. That includes medicare which means just about every medical facility, doctors' offices and DMEs. BONs will also abide by this law and will not issue or renew any license to someone taking medical marijuana. To whoever say "MANY" nurses and doctors smoke, they are incorrect. Even smoking cigarettes is now an offense for which you can be fired for. ANY worker's comp or needle stick or even some med errors will require you to be drug tested. There are also random drug tests. No questions asked and you will be fired and it does not matter if you have MD behind your name. If you do get the chance to enter into a rehab prograam instead of being fired, you will be repeatedly drug tested as often as they want. Lori, the synthetic forms are controlled and can have a value associated with them for a dosage. Marinol is an example at the usual dosage of 20 mg. It is considered inferior and a poor substitute for the real stuff so the Feds prefer it rather than a bag of weed.
Herbal incense vs marijuana what is better?
Marijuana, it is tried and true through the centuries and is much safer.
Did I accidentally smoke synthetic weed?
I'm a daily cannabis user, but I usually only smoke joints, blunts, or out of glass pipes. Last night, however, I hit a bong for the first time. Took maybe 4 nice big rips, felt pretty straight at first...But soon that changed. Here's the thing, I don't know these people at all. Just met the guy about a day ago at my work, and we got on pretty well so I figured he would be chill to smoke with. But while we were discussing our psychedelic use, he mentioned K2 which is spice. He also mentioned a time where his roommate's sister had a panic attack and doesn't smoke anymore because of it. I began worrying that this was some kind of police set up because he honestly did sound like a cop when he talked, just in that cop know-it-all-but-still-really-nice-about-... way. Said he's going to go to law school, I don't know but the bottom line is I got more paranoid and panicked than EVER before on ANY drug. I have never felt like that from weed before, not even from the bad shroom/LSD trips I've had. I was flipping **** the entire way home and it felt very similar to a bad acid trip except without the nausea. Time moved the same way that it moves when I'm on acid. I don't know, I'm wondering if they had me smoke spice so that I would think it was weed doing that to me and then it would "teach me a lesson" or something? I am serious when I say I have never been so panicked in my life. I was shaking all over and felt like I was gonna die. What do you think happened?
How long does it take for marijuana to get out of your system??Help!?
Marijuana has a half-life in your system. How long it takes to leave your system depends on how much you smoke. But the time maxes out at around 45 days. One smoking session for someone with a clean system takes about 3-4 days to be clean. Smoke 2 days later and then have to wait about a week, and so on. The time it will take roughly doubles every time you smoke until it maxes at about 45 days to be clean. So if you are maxed out and you wait about 2 weeks and then smoke again, you're basically back to 45 days. Marijuana can be detected in urine for nearly a week after smoking. Blood tests can be more accurate, and it might take a month to be totally clear. Hair tests show every drug ever taken when that hair was growing - this is why you see so many drug addicts with shaved heads or buzz cuts, by the way. Also by the way: taking laxatives and drinking wacky chemicals won't "cheat" a drug test. It will just make you go to the bathroom! These drug tests are designed by experts who anticipate what the drug user might do. Be very careful of "remedies" for getting around drug tests. They flat out do not work and could do damage to your body.
Can you become a cop if you had tried cocaine before?
In Iowa, police agencies can, and do, use lie detector tests in the application and hiring process. The results are used in conjunction with a personal interview, physical agility test, written test, and background check.Lying about your trial use of cocaine will get you eliminated from hiring consideration. If you answer yes truthfully, you will probably be asked to provide additional information in the interview. In other words, your chance to explain and elaborate.If your use was a one time experience in high school, college, or any other area of your past, if you are honest about it, and if your explanation is considered not to pose a risk if your were to be hired, it would not prevent your hiring.Iowa also uses a drug test in the application process so if you try to hide the fact that you're still using, it will show up and you will be disqualified.
Could someone become a police officer if they were arrested and convicted of using a fake ID to purchase alcohol?
Here’s the deal. You’re asking us, a bunch of strangers living all over the country, about your chances based upon the needs of an agency you haven’t named, in a region you haven’t identified. Under those conditions, we really have no clue.What you find out is that when all things are equal…meaning there are 3-4 other candidates with backgrounds, accomplishments, and IQ points the same as yours, they have to start nit-picking the small stuff to narrow the field to meet the numbers. The candidate who has smoked marijuana 12 times, will be overlooked in favor of the one candidate who only smoked 6 times. The one who never got caught with a fake ID, may beat out the one who did. The one who got picked up as a juvie for shoplifting may get in ahead of the one who broke a few store windows, but not beat out the one who never got caught doing anything.What passes the smell test in San Francisco, may not pass in Salt Lake City. What looks good in NYC and LA, may not look so good in Houston.The bottom line is, until you apply, you’ll never know. Best of luck.
Are you disqualified from being a police officer if you've smoked marijuana? If so, why?
Sure. It's probably unusual to find a police applicant who can truthfully say they have never smoked marijuana.More relevant is the last time the applicant used marijuana or other illegal drug (yes, I know MJ is not illegal everywhere), and the pattern of use. A situation where an applicant tried it once in high school and has had none since is not even going to be on the radar. If they last used the drug two weeks ago (or, in one case I know of, the morning of the interview), they're likely to be rejected. There are two concerns with applicants who have used marijuana or any other illegal or potentially addicting drug:Law enforcement officers are supposed to have a reverence for the law. An applicant who shows regular contempt for the law at the time of hire is not likely to improve in that aspect as his career progresses. Substance abuse is as prevalent in police work--maybe more prevalent--as in other professions. If an applicant has abused drugs or alcohol in the past, there is a better-than-average chance he will do so again, especially as he experiences the extreme emotional stresses that go with being a police officer. Law enforcement agencies try to avoid applicants who are likely to be problems down the road.