"Hear Hear!
"Also, anyone who consumes any alcoholic beveridge, takes pain killers or anti depression or anti anxiety medications. "Sure don't need 'those fiends' working along side us all".........'hic'
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---------said Pilot to his flight crew
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I do, really ! ...read the sarcasm there...
(and I apologize for the little editorializing
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On the same note, while marijuana may be legal in some states, as pointed out- it isn't legal under federal law. For the time being, the law simply isn't being enforced in those states.
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As a Colorado resident, I am only too aware of its easy acessiblity- but woe be unto you if you drive it across the borders of our neighboring states, or onto a federal installation.
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This is substance abuse is serious business for me and mine- as in:
My facility gets random, "escorted" drug urine tests - those are where you get watched pee'ing in a cup. We were once hit with a random visit just after I returned from lunch. I had eaten sandwich on a poppy seed roll that I hastily disclosed. I haven't eaten anything with poppy seeds since.
Frequently we get the substance sniffing dogs going over every inch of my lab- they never tell me what they are sniffing for- drugs, maybe explosives- that agency is very closed lipped, and their visits completely unannounced.
There is an installation that I visit often. Even driving in my government vehicle, I have to step outside it while armed agents go over it, and me, with various detectors before I can enter its gates.
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I listed those three example of why some activities are simply not worth the drug risks. I'll leave it anyone's imagination what the outcome would be if one of those 'interactions' ever goes 'bad.'
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I'm not sure if I have a point to make here- other than continuing the character issue, and while some people may trivialize it, there is a vast segment of society- those guys with the powers- that don't feel that way.
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Since I'm on a story telling roll, one more-
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My friend and co-worker Barbi was asked to go on a one month"TDY" (temporary duty assignment) with another agency, When she returned, she was furious with me for having "loaning" her out.
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"Why is that??" I asked
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"Because those SOB's drug test'd me twice during that time !" she said.
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Turns out, they tested her by *Pulling out clumps of her hair!*
Apparently clipping it was not sufficient- they had to have the roots too.
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.........................CF
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