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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Baloo: [QB] Personal experience: When I went to basic training, I had been "indulging" in the nasty illegal herb for over a year. Not continuously, but frequently. [Side note:] I told the folks at the induction center, not to get out of enlisting, but because if you tell them about it first, it won't be an issue if it comes out later (like being investigated for a security clearance). They sent me to the psychiatrist, who asked me, alternately: [list=1] [*]"Do you need marijuana to get to sleep at night?" Me: "No." [*]"Do you think you can follow orders?" Me: "Yes." [/list] He asked those two questions several times, rephrasing them each time. I'm not sure what the point of the exercise was, unless it was to see if I'd get confused and answer differently than before. He wrote something [i]very[/i] illegible onto a form and told me to take it to the next station. They let me enlist. (I have since seen that very document and examined it carefully. It is [i]completely[/i] illegible. For all I know he may have written down "This guy is a nut-case! Don't even [b]THINK[/b] about letting him enlist!" [Back to the subject:] I had been in basic training for over two weeks when something [b][i]amazing[/i][/b] happened. I was standing guard duty, studying my little "How to Be an Airman" manual (not the real title) when I suddenly realized: [b][i]My memory had come back![/i][/b] This was doubly amazing since, up till then, I hadn't noticed it's absence! My guess is that, if marijuana were legalized, anyone who uses the stuff should be restricted from certain jobs (care to drive or operate heavy machinery?) until they have been off the stuff for some period of time? How long? I don't know if my case is typical. I look back and figure I was a heavy user, but I also realize that I knew some folks who, while not burned out as I was, seemed to recover their faculties much more quickly than I. With Alcohol, there is a large body of knowledge regarding how much is too much, and how long one must wait for your body to metabolize the alcohol, prior to doing anything requiring all your wits and coordination. Pilots have a saying: "12 hours between the bottle and the throttle." While inaccurate, it is not completely so. With Marijuana, I would suspect that the amount of time between indulgence and full unimpairment would be significantly longer. I do not plan to resume using the leafy stuff when I am fully retired from the AF, mainly because I missed so much during my burnout days. I had fun, but I can't clearly remember what it was that was so much fun. Legalize? If you must, but [i]carefully[/i]! --Baloo [/QB][/QUOTE]
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