Originally Posted by
CMW403
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You aren't listening. Take someone has used cannabis for YEARS, every day of their lives, just like someone uses cigarettes. Sit them down in front of someone who has used Cannabis once or twice or even NEVER, and have them share a joint. Not only will the seasoned veteran smoke the absolute hell out of that joint while the newbie takes tiny little "hits", the newbie is going to walk away thinking they are on another planet while the seasoned veteran will walk away thinking, "ahh, that felt good, time to get on with my day" and hop in his truck and continue whatever he was doing beforehand (racing an F1 car, moving your money around in a mutual fund, winning back to back to back gold medals in all kinds of swimming events at the olympics), whereas the newbie is still figuring out how their car keys work.
The point is, alcohol effects everyone exactly the same. Actually to go even further, seasoned "alcohol veterans" have fucked up organs, meaning SMALL amounts of alcohol actually gets them far more fucked up then if someone who doesn't even drink came by and drank the same amount.
Do you see the problem with this cannabis testing yet? The RCMP can (and have) applied every single one of their roadside impairment tests on me 5 minutes after I had smoked a blunt the size of my finger filled with some of the highest %THC of medical marijuana that I can buy, and each time I aced every single one. I was actually told that I could recite the alphabet backwards standing on one leg with my finger on my nose faster than anyone that particular police officer had ever seen... And then they could stick one of those strips in my mouth and It would clearly show that I am nearly made of THC.
Now, heres where it is so different from alcohol...
The body is completely rid of one ounce of alcohol in under 8 hours. Zero trace that there was ever alcohol anywhere near that person, even if they are stone cold alcoholics that have been drinking a case of beer or a 26 every day for the last 10 years.
Heavy THC users will test positive (impaired) on this new roadside test. Even if they haven't smoked for 24 hours, 10 years of smoking many times a day everyday causes your body to store that THC in fat cells. Again, depending on your body type and metabolism you may test impaired even if you have not smoked for a whole week because of the THC secreted from inside your body.
The roadside saliva test results are going to be abused and fought by people charged and they will end up being medical users backed up by doctors and specialists, I believe the doctors and specialists will easily prove to any court that the saliva strips cannot be used with accuracy on high tolerance medical users, and a legal precedent will be set. Medical users are simply not impaired when they use marijuana. I am a prescribed medical user with an extremely high tolerance, I WISH that marijuana still got me "high" enough that I didn't know how to work my car keys, that shit was fun. People like me actually miss getting fucked up off a joint...