Mayor Rick Meehan reminded the Police Commission during Monday’s meeting that because the state prohibits hiring people for law enforcement if they have used marijuana within three years of their applications, the resort had to reject some potential officers.
That policy came down from the Maryland Police and Training and Standards Commission in April. It replaced a rule dating back to the 1970s that disqualified candidates who had used marijuana more than 20 times in their lives or five times since turning 21 years old.
“We’ve had this conversation before, and I think it’s important to the state as a whole to look at this,” Meehan said. “It’s a reflection of where we are in 2017 that we had to cut some fine young individuals that wanted to be police officers.”
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After all, it's a family town, right?
So a cop that was previously a pot smoker comes across someone in OC possesing pot for personal consumption....how does that play out? Different rules for the public and the police? Do as I say, not as I do??
Only stoners need apply.
in 1978 I had a OC Rental Cop ask me if I wanted to buy some PCP. no lie. really happened. I declined.
@ 12:42 The key word in your rambling was "previous" no police officer can use pot on or off duty.
It just goes to show that marijuana use is prevalent among all types of people, knowing no boundaries.
Back in the 1880's, it was widely used as MEDICINE. It was in medical journals, they did HUMAN trials and studies. It was PROVEN to be effective for a wide range of symptoms, diseases, and ailments. And it was all recorded and published.
So, I and others want to know, why our government says more research and HUMAN studies need to be done when it has already been done?
Of course, we already know why they say that and why they have it listed as a Schedule 1 drug on par with heroin and cocaine and others. Money. Power. Agendas.
They don't want cures. Cures would mean an end to an illness or disease. Cures would mean fewer customers. Cures would mean people are healthy and happy. They can't have that. The people would then be harder to control, manipulate, and divide.
After all, those were the reasons for the first bans in the first place. The gov't currently have two patents on marijuana, FOR THE USE AS MEDICINE.
If it has no medicinal properties or values, why would they need ANY patents? Lies upon lies.
Now it is slowly becoming available for use as a medicine legally. (although the gov't had a program supplying certain individuals with marijuana for qualifying diseases, which ended but some lucky individuals still receive).
Think you missed the point....by more than a little bit.
I think this is more targeted towards the "I smoked pot when I was a dumb teenager but I have since grown up" cops. Smoked a joint 15 years ago? They don't care, you can't be hired on. Meanwhile you prescribe your children legal meth-I mean Ritalin and Adderall.
Beavis and Butthead on patrol!
It's called a slippery slope for a reason. You have a standard which is linked to the employee being fit for duty, and with maintaining public respect for and confidence in the department. Or you don't.
Fine, outstanding, promising candidates for law enforcement jobs know better than to toke it up, shoot it up, drink underage, steal cars, DUI or DWI, or meth up their career prospects. If you don't want those activities by employees you give a gun and badge, a good starting point is those mature enough to avoid those behaviors while growing up. EVERY kid has had training and education on these topics.
The hidden message in the mayor's bleat is that he's willing to roll the dice in hopes that a big paycheck once employed will be enough to alter undisciplined habits rooted in a less wealthy youth.
Good managers are familiar with the phrase "Past is predictive." It's not an absolute but can save a lot of grief along the lines of "You knew that and still hired them?" after an incident that is a recurrence.
Caveat Emptor!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Think you missed the point....by more than a little bit.
August 21, 2017 at 1:21 PM
no, but you have
INTRODUCTION OF CANNABIS, 1839
Although cannabis was mentioned occasionally by early botanists and explorers describing their travels, little was actually known about cannabis therapy in Europe and America until O'Shaughnessy read a paper to a group of students and scholars of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta in 1839. The 40-page paper was a model of modern pharmaceutical research. It included a thorough review of the history of cannabis medical uses by Ayurvedic and Persian physicians in India and the Middle East-some of whom (his local sources) were doubtless in the room.
O'Shaughnessy conducted the first clinical trials of cannabis preparations, first with safety experiments on mice, dogs, rabbits and cats, then by giving extracts and tinctures (of his own devising, based on native recipes) to some of his patients. O'Shaughnessy presented concise case studies of patients suffering from rheumatism, hydrophobia, cholera, and tetanus, as well as a 40-day-old baby with convulsions, who responded well to cannabis therapy, leaping from near death to "the enjoyment of robust health" in a few days.
O'Shaughnessy appended a paper by his cousin Richard on a case of tetanus cured by a cannabis preparation. He also warned that a peculiar form of delirium may be "occasioned by continual Hemp inebriation," and cautioned doctors to start with low doses. O'Shaughnessy concludes that these clinical studies have "led me to the belief that in Hemp the profession has gained an anti-convulsive remedy of the greatest value." (O'Shaughnessy 1839a).
Exhausted from preparing three large books, and from his double duties as professor and chemical examiner, O'Shaughnessy took a "sick leave" furlough back to England in 1841. He brought quantities of hemp for the Pharmaceutical Society and specimens of Cannabis indica and Nux vomica back to the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, and shepherded the reprints of his article in the Provincial Medical Journal. Chemists vied with each other to make potent tinctures and extracts with O'Shaughnessy's recipes, struggling to identify and isolate the active principles of the drug-- a goal not achieved until 1964 (Gaoni & Mechoulam 1964).
Sir J. Russell Reynolds, M.D., personal physician to Queen Victoria, recommended it to his patients for menstrual cramps (Reynolds 1890), and O'Shaughnessy was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1843.
O'Shaughnessy's paper caused a sensation when it became widely available in England. He had introduced a wonder drug to treat some of the most awful medical conditions of the 19th century. Physicians throughout Europe and America tried cannabis for a huge variety of illnesses. As Dr. Lester Grinspoon noted in Marihuana Reconsidered (1971:15), "Between 1839 and 1900 more than one hundred articles appeared in scientific journals describing the medicinal properties of the plant."
A similar thing happened when Dr. Tod Mikuriya reprinted O'Shaughnessy's paper as the lead article in Marijuana: Medical Papers 1839-1972 (1973)-it reinvigorated medical interest in the drug and sparked hundreds more articles on cannabis therapy into the 21st century.
http://antiquecannabisbook.com/chap2B/Shaughnessy/Shaughnessy.htm
Have you ever thought it's because your a drug addict?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Have you ever thought it's because your a drug addict?
August 21, 2017 at 5:51 PM
If you're talking about me, you couldn't be further from the truth. I don't even use marijuana but I am looking into using it, hence my research. I don't really care what you think or anyone else for that matter. If I think it will help me I will use it, plain and simple. If that makes me a drug addict in anyone's eyes, so be it. I couldn't care less.
The entire workforce in transportation is subject to random drug testing. Why does someone feel the cops aren't? I ask you, when is the last time you saw a bus driver armed with a pistol. OC cops carry them all the time.
Just want we always wanted; to visit the beach and put up with the pungent odor of burning weed. Family resort on steroids. NOT!!!
I ask you, when is the last time you saw a bus driver armed with a pistol. OC cops carry them all the time.
August 21, 2017 at 7:52 PM
Just because you don't SEE them doesn't mean they don't HAVE them.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Just want we always wanted; to visit the beach and put up with the pungent odor of burning weed. Family resort on steroids. NOT!!!
August 21, 2017 at 8:35 PM
You can have that anywhere you go regardless if cops have used it in the past or currently.
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