{"id":38590,"date":"2017-05-19T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38590"},"modified":"2017-05-18T09:57:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T13:57:33","slug":"marijuana-use-promotes-incoherence-on-the-part-of-non-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/05\/19\/marijuana-use-promotes-incoherence-on-the-part-of-non-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana use promotes incoherence … on the part of non-users"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Selley<\/a> rounds up some of the less-than-realistic concerns of the anti-legalization folks:<\/p>\n

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The move toward marijuana legalization is \u2026 still not as coherent as it could be, let\u2019s say. The Liberal legislation, unveiled last month, would establish rules around THC-impaired driving that may well prove unconstitutional: science has yet to establish a solid link between a given level of THC concentration in a driver\u2019s blood or saliva and his level of impairment. Frustratingly, there are still those who use this as an argument against legalization \u2014 as if it would create pot-impaired drivers where there are none today.<\/p>\n

Last week on CTV\u2019s Question Period<\/em>, host Evan Solomon asked former U.S. ambassador Bruce Heyman what would happen if someone showed up to the border with his car or his clothes smelling of marijuana. It\u2019s a variation of a question that\u2019s been asked often: As it stands, Canadians who admit having smoked marijuana in the past are sometimes turned back. What would happen after legalization?<\/p>\n

The de facto<\/em> answer is, as always: Whatever the hell the U.S. border guard in question wants to happen. (It amazes me how many Canadians haven\u2019t yet figured this out.) And furthermore: \u201cDon\u2019t rock up to the U.S. border reeking of pot, you utterly unsympathetic tool.\u201d<\/p>\n

The de jure<\/em> answer: Well, who knows? Why would Canada\u2019s decision to legalize marijuana have any bearing on the admissibility of foreign pot-smokers to the United States of America? <\/p>\n

Heyman\u2019s answers were more, er, nuanced than mine. Bafflingly, he started talking about sniffer dogs and their performance limitations: They won\u2019t care that pot\u2019s legal, so they\u2019ll still detect marijuana, and that will bog down the border.<\/p>\n

Now, marijuana legalization certainly might lead to a bogged-down border \u2014 if humans, not canines, decide to bog it down. For example, one can imagine Donald Trump thinking legalization necessitated much more aggressive screening of incoming motorists, and not caring too much about the trade implications. Whether that makes any sense is another question.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Selley rounds up some of the less-than-realistic concerns of the anti-legalization folks: The move toward marijuana legalization is \u2026 still not as coherent as it could be, let\u2019s say. The Liberal legislation, unveiled last month, would establish rules around THC-impaired driving that may well prove unconstitutional: science has yet to establish a solid link […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,10,16,13],"tags":[316,111,1037,83,199],"class_list":["post-38590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","category-liberty","category-science","category-usa","tag-borders","tag-cars","tag-donaldtrump","tag-marijuana","tag-prohibition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a2q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38591,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38590\/revisions\/38591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}