California Prop. 19- Legalized Marijuana

[KingMerv00]

what I want to know, is if this Proposition 19 would make it ILLEGAL for an employer to forbid a worker to drive a bus or other vehicle, or operate machinery, when he comes to work stond.

I know it allowes employers to prevent workers from smoking weed while on the job, but what about folks who come to work intoxicated with marijuana?

will employers have the legal right to tell them to go home until they are no longer intoxicated?


...I have read the state provided ballot info packet. I have read info on a non-partisan website that explains new legislation. I have still have not found a concrete answer to this question. and if this question is not answered, then the measure should NOT pass.

There is no way it is legal to drive a bus while stoned. I would need extraordinary evidence to believe otherwise.

 

[Thunder]

There is no way it is legal to drive a bus while stoned. I would need extraordinary evidence to believe otherwise.

if the consumption of marijuana is legalized, than a new law will be required stipulating that it would still be illegal to operate a motor vehicle or dangerous machinery, while intoxicated by it.

 

[Praktik]

if the consumption of marijuana is legalized, than a new law will be required stipulating that it would still be illegal to operate a motor vehicle or dangerous machinery, while intoxicated by it.

Really?

Isn't there a general "driving while impaired" offense? What do they charge people who are caught driving obviously stoned today?

 

[KingMerv00]

if the consumption of marijuana is legalized, than a new law will be required stipulating that it would still be illegal to operate a motor vehicle or dangerous machinery, while intoxicated by it.

Where do you get that idea? I'm pretty sure California already has a general intoxicated driving law. Even if they didn't, driving a bus while intoxicated would open up the bus company to civil liability.

 

[cwalner]

Where do you get that idea? I'm pretty sure California already has a general intoxicated driving law. Even if they didn't, driving a bus while intoxicated would open up the bus company to civil liability.

Heck, In CA, I once got sent home from work because I was taking prescription cold medicine and my job did not even require me to operate heavy machinery. My boss simply felt that the drugs (legally prescribed and taken) impaired my ability to perfrom my duties for that day.

In all fairness, I was suffering from a cold and enjoying a codine buzz, so did not really argue the point. I went home and slept it off rather than arguing so I never thought to challenge whether my boss had the legal right to do that.

 

[KingMerv00]

Heck, In CA, I once got sent home from work because I was taking prescription cold medicine and my job did not even require me to operate heavy machinery. My boss simply felt that the drugs (legally prescribed and taken) impaired my ability to perfrom my duties for that day.

In all fairness, I was suffering from a cold and enjoying a codine buzz, so did not really argue the point. I went home and slept it off rather than arguing so I never thought to challenge whether my boss had the legal right to do that.

Saying we need a new law to deal for stoned driving is like saying we need a new murder statute when someone is beaten to death with the latest version of the iPad.

"Your honor, 'iPad' appears NOWHERE in the law!"

 

[cwalner]

Saying we need a new law to deal for stoned driving is like saying we need a new murder statute when someone is beaten to death with the latest version of the iPad.

"Your honor, 'iPad' appears NOWHERE in the law!"

The OP makes no sense. Companies have the right to send people home from work, and even fire them in some instances, for showing up to work intoxicated by alcohol, a legal drug to consume for anybody over 21. Why anybody would assume this would be different for marijuana if it became legalized is what I cannot figure out.

 

[Father Dagon]

Any gallups yet?

 

[NYCEMT86]

Any gallups yet?

The most recent poll I found

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- While California's marijuana ballot initiative is garnering a lot of attention this election cycle, Gallup finds that nationally, a new high of 46% of Americans are in favor of legalizing use of the drug, and a new low of 50% are opposed. The increase in support this year from 44% in 2009 is not statistically significant, but is a continuation of the upward trend seen since 2000.

Source

I would like to see California legalize it, not just for a monetary standpoint, but to see how they set the stage for the rest of the country.

 

[casebro]

I think they pretty much put an end to publicizing exit polls until after the Local (?) polls close. Thought was, it could be used to get out the vote if the media darling was losing, or for planned late voters to not bother, since they though their candidate already lost.

So this being an off-year election, I suppose the exit polls wlll be declaring starting as soon as any eastern time zone polls close?