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![]() "Jim Fisher" wrote in message news:to2wd.2559 Never smoked the stuff, have ya? Good for you, man. If you *did* smoke it, you'd know that pot (and lots of other stuff) affects you during and well after partaking of it. Tell your name to just about any long-term pot smoker. Even if 's not stoned, he won't remember it next time he meets you. I disagree. I know laywers, professors, engineers, programmers and, well, parents who have smoked pot most of their adult life who don't demonstrate those characteristics. One, as I think I mentioned earlier, was UAL/PDX' employee of the year three or four times in his 23-year career. He got a special award for not missing a day of work in five years. I know for a fact he's smoked pot daily since before I was born. Hasn't been in a traffic accident in as long as I can remember (drove as a courier after UAL closed down his unit and laid the entire crew off), never been arrested. Having said that, I am absolutely not condoning mixing drug use of any kind with flying. I've done my share of, eh, sampling, but I won't even eat curry before flying because it makes me drowsy, and coffee is a diuretic which is a distraction so I limit that as well. I guess what torques me off is, the vast majority of commercial pilots make squat, and yet every time they take off they put their lives and their passengers' lives in danger. Every single time. They're not paid in accordance with the risk of their OWN lives, and yet it takes some well-paid group of bureaucrats somewhere to legislate safety to people who risk their lives every damned minute they're working. My thinking, of course, may be way off. Not to mention the fact that a commercial pilot who performs an illegal act on a habitual basis has no place in the cockpit, man! LOL! My grandparents broke down in southeast Oregon on a hunting trip and chartered a pilot to take them to Reno for the car part. In Reno, the pilot rented a car and drove them to the part place. My grandfather (a cop) said the guy was as good a pilot as those he rode with in WWII, but that he ran four stop signs in the short amount of time they were with him. : -c |
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