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fredamae

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2. Impairment Testing Equip
Wed May 2, 2012, 10:27 AM
May 2012

does exist. It works not specific to Cannabis but All causes of impairment. Lack of sleep, illness, exhaustion, hangovers, migraines, stress, emo-stress ie: birth, death, marriage, divorce etc-The bottom line is that we have allowed ourselves to be limited in our response to "impairment"
This notion that it matters What specific substance is ingested instead of looking at the individual circumstance is BS.
A person undergoing Chemo (function) tests out the same as a person with a BAC of .05.
Do we treat that person the same as a person who might consume something recreationally? Should we?
There is no magic test. Either a person functions safely/normally or they don't.
Again, if we are serious about safety we need to look at testing actual impairment.

UA/Blood/BAC test results for Drugs don't address any problem and they do not make us safer. Stop using all drug testing simply as an "ingestion trap" and start looking at whether or not a person is impaired.

There are people who can drink a 6-pack and Function just fine-then there are those who feel intoxicated just by being in the same room with an open bottle of beer. Ingestion fails the safety test-Impairment Testing measure "impairment". Big difference.

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