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While Canada works toward the total demise of marijuana prohibition across the nation, the petroleum industry is trying to persuade the government to reconsider this high idea due to concerns that it will turn negatively affect the workplace.
Earlier this week, the oil and gas industry safety association Enform fired off a letter to the Task Force on Marijuana Legalization, Regulation and Restriction begging the Canadian government not to go any further with the concept of legalizing marijuana because the group feels it would be a detriment to workplace safety. The group is concerned that with alcohol and drug use already so rampant on work sites, legal marijuana would do nothing but worsen the situation.
“The legalization of marijuana will have an adverse impact on workplace safety and on an employer’s ability to ensure a safe work environment,” Enform CEO Cameron MacGillivray wrote in a letter obtained by the Calgary Herald. “Enform respectfully submits that any legislation that is considered must address the obligations of employers to maintain a safe work environment and the workplace safety risks associated with marijuana use and abuse.”
Although Enform does not appear to be so naïve as to think that it has the power to put a wrench in the wheels of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s master plan to legalize the leaf in the northern nation, the group is lobbying for a set of rules, specific to its industry, which include prohibiting the sale, possession and consumption of cannabis products throughout safety sensitive work areas.
“If (employees) can start carrying it around in their shirt pocket like a pack of cigarettes and fire it up on their way to work and it’s perfectly legal? That’s definitely a concern,” said Mark Salkeld, president and CEO of the Petroleum Services Association of Canada. “Our members have a duty to ensure a safe workplace.”
The petroleum industry is hoping to get the government’s support in establishing strict regulations when it comes to the workplace safety aspect of allowing marijuana to be bought and sold in a manner similar to beer. Enform has requested a meeting with the nation’s marijuana task force in hopes of presenting its argument for why work-related prohibitions are necessary.
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Or maybe they don't want competition from Hemp Products !
Eco friendly biofuels, plastics, fibers, etc.. It is estimated that over 50 thousand products can be manufactured from hemp. A great many of them can replace fossil fuel based products.
Fossil fuel is just gonna have to bite on a bullet because the world can no longer tolerate their pollution done in the name of greed.
Do people currently get drunk at work all the time? No, only in rare cases? Then why would it be different for pot right? The people that want to be stoned at work are all reday doing so...
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I hate to tell them but when I worked in the Gulf of Mexico people would come out there with a suitcase full of pot and work for a few months straight?
Worked on a workover rig for years use to be able to smoke all the time no problem. Only had to quit when I was in the bakken. Do something about all the methhead operators, tripping pipe while being awake for three days is the problem
So the ONLY time the oil and gas industry is willing to accept regulation is when it targets the users of a plant that could replace their products? They think they can do a fine job foregoing regulation for on-the job safety, industrial pollution, oil drilling and natural gas fracking but when it comes to a little cannabis they're just unable to proceed without strict control?
Astonishing.
That's a BS excuse...they know cannabis can replace a lot of what the petroleum industry offers at a much lower price and then gives them competition...time to level the playing field!
The claims of the petroleum industry are seriously at odds with the conclusions of Canada’s Le Dein Commission of 1972. The commission’s report states, “insofar as the implications of the effects on psychomotor abilities are concerned, is that cannabis intoxication is still unrecognizable and undetectable. It is virtually impossible to tell whether a person is 'high' on cannabis unless he tells you”.
It also states, “There is no evidence that the use of cannabis has been a significant cause of automobile accidents”. For more click: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/ledain/ldc6a.htm
News flash. The people who smoke have already been smoking on the job, ya mooks. Your stupid asses have never been able to tell the difference anyway. So what's your concern, really?