Binky
11-21-2006, 04:34 PM
PROF IS IMPAIRED
Re: "Smoking pot on campus," Nov. 1, 2006
Dear Editor,
There is now a chance to study the effects of pot on the impairment of an individual. Allowing a professor to smoke on the job for his health is the perfect opportunity to study the side effects of an intelligent individual's marijuana use, unless somehow we are to think that this legal consumption is free of impairment.
Because the professor is ill, he can be allowed to teach impaired goes against my understanding. According to the government, he would be dangerous behind the wheel, which requires clear thinking on a very basic level, yet he is allowed to earn a high salary instructing students who have paid large sums for excellent teaching. Does he drive to work too? Do other patients who use impairing medicines get to come to work and draw their full salary for their impaired efforts? Or do they stay home and nurse their health and not endanger others while ripping off their employer?
Why can't we have legislation ( drug-impaired driving ) introduced for real threats, not only political purposes? Where are the undeniable facts of impairment due to marijuana ingestion? Impairment, by definition, should not be hard to prove if it exists. Intelligent students in the professor's classes should soon be protesting that their instructor is impaired.
Why are the figures of increased carnage on our roads not made public as they are for alcohol impairment? The reason is that they don't exist.
Klaus Kaczor
Excalibur (CN ON Edu)
Copyright: 2006 Excalibur
Contact: editor@excal.on.ca
Website: http://www.excal.on.ca/
Re: "Smoking pot on campus," Nov. 1, 2006
Dear Editor,
There is now a chance to study the effects of pot on the impairment of an individual. Allowing a professor to smoke on the job for his health is the perfect opportunity to study the side effects of an intelligent individual's marijuana use, unless somehow we are to think that this legal consumption is free of impairment.
Because the professor is ill, he can be allowed to teach impaired goes against my understanding. According to the government, he would be dangerous behind the wheel, which requires clear thinking on a very basic level, yet he is allowed to earn a high salary instructing students who have paid large sums for excellent teaching. Does he drive to work too? Do other patients who use impairing medicines get to come to work and draw their full salary for their impaired efforts? Or do they stay home and nurse their health and not endanger others while ripping off their employer?
Why can't we have legislation ( drug-impaired driving ) introduced for real threats, not only political purposes? Where are the undeniable facts of impairment due to marijuana ingestion? Impairment, by definition, should not be hard to prove if it exists. Intelligent students in the professor's classes should soon be protesting that their instructor is impaired.
Why are the figures of increased carnage on our roads not made public as they are for alcohol impairment? The reason is that they don't exist.
Klaus Kaczor
Excalibur (CN ON Edu)
Copyright: 2006 Excalibur
Contact: editor@excal.on.ca
Website: http://www.excal.on.ca/