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Regarding CBD, the Naval Academy has gone in the opposite direction and made it more strict. There was a MIDN recently who popped positive for THC, but after a long process of explaining that he was a regular user of CBD, and never used weed, and he somehow proved that, the case was eventually dropped, BUT the policy was updated to prohibit CBD as a banned substance (some of that detail may not be completely accurate, I got this info from current mids).
I don't think anyone would disagree that there are jobs in the DOD where any possible impairment could be deadly, same as commercial pilots, truck drivers, amtrak engineers, doctors, nurses, etc etc, not to mention regular drivers on the road. (by the way, that applies to alcohol as well) Many of those professions are grappling with how to modify their policies (which can certainly be more strict than the law) as society changes with regard to legalization of cannabis.
The key driver will be the science/tests that allows organizations to know with certainty the level of impairment. ie. the idea that operating (or flying, or shooting, or ..) anything while impaired will always be strictly prohibited, but that using cannabis while on leave, for instance, and reporting back on duty a month later should be allowed. It looks like that level of precision is still a ways off, but the concept seems to be gaining steam.
That is why I think that the Canadian military is too far out in front of this, without the science/tests to support it. The Canadian military allows use of cannabis today, with restrictions.
8 hours from use to duty
24 hours from use to operating anything
28 days from use to flying, parachuting, etc
total prohibition during any deployment / operation etc
This is not the govt of Aruba, this is a major NATO partner who flys lots of fast jets, big ships and does quite a bit of joint ops with the US military. The thing that triggered this new policy was law that legalized cannabis nationally in Canada. I think it's inevitable that something like this happens someday - maybe not for a decade, but someday
I don't think anyone would disagree that there are jobs in the DOD where any possible impairment could be deadly, same as commercial pilots, truck drivers, amtrak engineers, doctors, nurses, etc etc, not to mention regular drivers on the road. (by the way, that applies to alcohol as well) Many of those professions are grappling with how to modify their policies (which can certainly be more strict than the law) as society changes with regard to legalization of cannabis.
The key driver will be the science/tests that allows organizations to know with certainty the level of impairment. ie. the idea that operating (or flying, or shooting, or ..) anything while impaired will always be strictly prohibited, but that using cannabis while on leave, for instance, and reporting back on duty a month later should be allowed. It looks like that level of precision is still a ways off, but the concept seems to be gaining steam.
That is why I think that the Canadian military is too far out in front of this, without the science/tests to support it. The Canadian military allows use of cannabis today, with restrictions.
8 hours from use to duty
24 hours from use to operating anything
28 days from use to flying, parachuting, etc
total prohibition during any deployment / operation etc
This is not the govt of Aruba, this is a major NATO partner who flys lots of fast jets, big ships and does quite a bit of joint ops with the US military. The thing that triggered this new policy was law that legalized cannabis nationally in Canada. I think it's inevitable that something like this happens someday - maybe not for a decade, but someday