Medical Marijuana Cards

Do paid training trucking companies like Roehl and Maverick honor medical marijuana cards from different states?

NO trucking company will accept ANY marijuana use from ANY state. Marijuana is not accepted on any federal level and has no place in a safety sensitive position such as trucking.

What about cards from Europe?

What about cards from Europe?

No, they won't allow any use of marijuana in the US trucking industry.

If it takes pot for you to make it through normal life, for pain or anxiety or whatever, you don't have the testicular fortitude to do this job. It will kill a career before you ever sit in a driver's seat

I dont understand why Marijuana use is so stigmatized. I'm not saying the rules should be changed to accommodate people who want to partake. It's just that there are probably a high percentage of drivers who choose to "unwind" at home after driving for 10hrs with a few beers, or have a few beers "to take the edge off" so to speak. Nobody questions their ability to deal with the rigors of the job. Yet when a person uses Marijuana in the same way, we automatically assume that they are dependent upon the drug and must be unable to function without it.

So when people come here asking about rules concerning Marijuana, responses like Turtle's and Brett's above should suffice. There is no need to question a person's ability to cope with the demands of the job.

I know people say they have a medical Marijuana card. In many cases that doesn't mean crap. Anybody can fabricate a "medical" reason to get a card in order to smoke legally. How many people do you think would develop medical conditions overnight if the use of alcohol was suddenly regulated the same way as Marijuana?

Once again, I'm not advocating that Marijuana should be legal for truck drivers. I'm just saying we should not question a person's character bc he/she chooses to smoke legally and responsibly.

And I'm not criticizing you for your response here, NaeNae. You are a highly respected contributor on this forum in my opinion. I'm just pointing out that just bc a person smokes it doesn't necessarily mean they are dependent.

And please, by all means, if you have a different opinion or point of view, feel free to tell me why you disagree with my comments above.

While I agree with you on not judging. And I try to keep my personal perspective out of it, I think that a stigma exists because the primary use of pot is a sedative. It's a mind and mood alterting substance that's primarily used to address emotional issues, ergo. It's natural to associate users having emotional issues. This is not to say that there are not ample cases where both THC and CBD have proven to be effective as therapy, but those are not it's primary use.

Also, like any other sedative, it's addictive, it's side effects both long term and short term are not compatible with drive and operating machinery.

The attempt to legitimize its use under mmj for moat casual users was and is a thinly veiled excuse to use it. If we're being honest and it was truly being used for medical purposes, nit just to get high, then it should be prescribed and part for treatment just as any other medication. However on the patients side, we know big pharma has kept that from happening.

While I agree with you on not judging. And I try to keep my personal perspective out of it, I think that a stigma exists because the primary use of pot is a sedative. It's a mind and mood alterting substance that's primarily used to address emotional issues, ergo. It's natural to associate users having emotional issues. This is not to say that there are not ample cases where both THC and CBD have proven to be effective as therapy, but those are not it's primary use.

Also, like any other sedative, it's addictive, it's side effects both long term and short term are not compatible with drive and operating machinery.

The attempt to legitimize its use under mmj for moat casual users was and is a thinly veiled excuse to use it. If we're being honest and it was truly being used for medical purposes, nit just to get high, then it should be prescribed and part for treatment just as any other medication. However on the patients side, we know big pharma has kept that from happening.

Couldn't the same be said for alcohol?

Couldn't the same be said for alcohol?

I'd say the same for caffeine. I have never heard anyone's character questioned because they can't get going in the morning without a cup of coffee.

I think that a stigma exists because the primary use of pot is a sedative

I think the stigma exists because, for 50+ years, the government drilled its relentless propaganda into our lives. To this day, if someone acts 'out of line,' a 76-year-old member of my family says, "they're probably on drugs." It cracks me up every time.

I believe the real reason weed was illegal was for economic purposes. The chemical companies and logging industry, amongst others, desperately wanted to make we did not use hemp for paper, clothing, rope, and a million other uses.

A quote from one of the most evil people in history:

A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth

Joseph Goebbels

All that being said, I don't know a suitable solution to the situation. I don't think anyone would argue it's ok to drive while you're high, yet there seem to be no tests available that can tell how recently you smoked. So I don't know what you do about that except play it safe, which is how they're handling it now.

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