How long until marijuana is legal in the military?

Cpl Andy Krueger, got it. You topped out in the Corps as an E-4 and now you smoke weed all day and disparage law enforcement.

Hey, every agency I know is hiring. If you can do better, you should apply! But just know they ALL have drug tests.

1SG Joseph Yorski, MHS again making inferences without zero knowledge of anything. Typical of your kind.
No thanks on the job, never aspired to professionally violate civil rights.
Got a very thriving small business. But of course you wouldnt know anything about that, got to suck off the government tit your whole life. Drown your sorrows of your divorce and your children hating you, in your bottle of Jack every night, self righteous one.
I know you're divorced

Cpl Andy Krueger, champ, you couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m remarried, but as tomorrow’s our 12th anniversary, I’ll take your congratulations. I don’t drink hard liquor, I’ve got three pensions so far and working on the fourth. Kids are great, thanks! See, you think all cops violate civil rights, all 1SG’s are bad, etc., etc. It’s tiring, like this conversation. But I wish you luck anyway. I think you need it more than I do.

f you actually had some integrity and accountability in your profession so many people wouldn't be talking badly about you

But you're right it is tiring to see how many abuses you people do it are hsrdly held accountable for it

There are some important differences between alcohol and marijuana. The body can process onestandard drink, 12 fl oz beer, 5fl oz wine and 1.5 fl oz of hard liquor, in about 1 hour. That is to say one drink will be out of your system in an hour and no longer be detectable. by breathalyzer blood or urine test. If you smoke one joint that one joint will be in your system for a month

PV2 Aaron Bennett - It is much safer than smoking, however it is by no means harmless. Look up "popcorn lung". My parents are in the medical field and are starting to see more cases of this. Nicotine poisoning is also on the rise as people are smoking e-cigs as a more frequent rate than cigarets because of the "cool vapor" effect..

Is it better than smoking cigarets and cigars? Absolutely. Is it harmless - no.

SSG Howard Church - Not true. Though it will remain in hair follicles for upwards of 90 days, THC can be otherwise undetectable in as little as 24 - 72 hours. However, in a frequent user, THC can and will remain in the body and fat cells for upwards of 30 days.

And that is just for drug testing purposes. The EFFECTS it has on someones neurological functions dissipates between 1-4 hours depending on how it was administered (i.e smoked or ingested).

LTC Trent Klug - I agree with you on this. Narcotic crime has only gotten worse since the legalization. (I live in Washington and work in Oregon BTW) Fatal crashes have increased on the highways as well. There has also been an increase of ER visits for kids who eat their parents edibles. Pets have been affected by this as well. Marijuana is a lot stronger now than ever before. There is a higher risk of cancer with use. The deleterious effects of the drug remain in the system up to six months after smoking it too. Most folks listened to the legalization propaganda and never heard the negative side.

Thank you, LTC. I have the same standpoint. Regardless of my personal opinion on the matter, I cannot logically see it remaining prohibited "forever". In the coming years I definitely think marijuana use in the military will become a topic of heavy discussion, especially in regards to the UCMJ.

there has been some talk about it medically by the feds, but until approved, i dont think so

I agree that it would need to be decriminalized at the federal level first. I did three DoD summer internships and was reminded of this fact before they sent me to do each chain-of-custody drug test. Changes to the UCMJ would be administrative, once changes to the federal law itself were made.

SSgt Veronica Fraga: "Changes to the UCMJ would be administrative, once changes to the federal law itself were made."
Nope! Not "administrative" at all. The UCMJ is not some military regulation, it really is federal law, the military only reprints it as the Manual for Courts Martial, and again as the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but the entire text of the UCMJ is enacted by congress and would have to be changed by congress.

Look up10 U.S. Code Chapter 47 to find the entire UCMJ
or you can look up 10 U.S. Code § 912a to find UCMJ Article 112a

And, oh by the way, when congress eventually changes 21 U.S. Code § 812 to legalize medical marijuana as a prescription drug that won't automatically change 10 U.S. Code § 912a

SSG Dale, you are a scholar! Thank you for your educational and informative response. I couldn't have said it any better myself.

Then tell trump to leave you alone!!

Thank you, SSG!!

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - If the last 2digits of your SSAN came up, you has to go pee in the bottle. Tightly run program. I heard of at least 2 cases of 100 % orange juice for urine samples turning up. If you tested positive you went on the drug program for 6 weeks. If you failed the program you got a discharge. many went on the program to get a discharge.

CPT Earl George - Pretty Good Program I was Urinalysis Coordinator for SPAWARS 621 and NARDAC while in DC.

Operation Golden Flow...An annoying yet easy mission to complete. Even if we've have a few AWOLS and ghosts because of it.

PO3 Bob McCord - Whoopee..

I s’pose obama Had his priorities confused in doing his social warrior experiments. Maybe if he had moved things around InThe order he was doing them, maybe the marijuana sitrep had occurred sooner...(IMHO)

PO2 David Allender were machines locked down between meal hours ?

SSgt Boyd Herrst - Sorry, but when I got out in December of 71, no alcohol aboard ship. Except if somebody was very fortunate in getting it aboard, of course. But if you were caught, shame on you. The only alcohol; aboard ship was in medical for medicinal use only.

PO2 David Allender As you folks in the Navy called it: the
“Scuttlebutt” was about the machines being installed by s certain date.. I never seen because
I went on leave in Dec. ‘71 and in ‘Nam in Jan ‘72.. While in ‘Nam I read in Stars n Stripes the beer was a failed experiment . I extended and went to Thailand and extended again for another 6 mo. I busted ass keeping my nose clean and making SSGT on my 1st go around .
I had it on 5 months when I rotated
Back stateside. I was even staying Clear of the Senghi beer(nasty s**t). Some guys over at Security bks got s**tfaced and tore up som e stuff. Our cmdr pre-emptively outlawed beer and alcohol for 6 months in our hooches.. And don’t come back inebriated on Squadron area. even going straight to your own Hooch.. he liked using Art134 a lot. There were a lot of suspended busts going around Services Sqdn. (I think our Sqdn had it’s own A.A. Chapter.) Just NOT mine .. Cmdr. Found a teatotaling 1SGT.. so we knew what
That meant.. Services Sqdn used to be one of the class 6 store’s biggest customer’s. I had actually gotten used to not having even a single beer.. night before i returned Stateside I locked myself in my room.. Some guys threatened to get me busted my last night.. Cmdr. & -1SGT made sure it didn’t happen and i’m Glad of that .. I was so happy to get out of there finally. I enjoyed Thailand for it’s culture but some
People kind of spoiled it . We had some fellas that were playing the race card.... The Cmdr redlined their SSGT..for 6 months. Citing alcohol as inhibiting their ability
To make rational and mature decisions.. One was due to rotate the same time I was. The other in August of ‘74. The redline came in May . So both would rotate back as SGT E4 . I didn’t See either as having serious alcohol sitreps. I thought it because of his personal views. Them fellas were at work a half hour before shift report time.
Hard workers, Didn’t seem to slack much.. no more than some Caucasian’s. I rotated out and went to Travis to the base hospital
To be assigned to Nutritional/dietary Svcs . My AFSC would be 62270 Cook Supervisor.
My secondary was as a diet tech.
I had re-upped as a cook and recieved my 1st installment of my bonus as a Cook. When I got there I was at assignments section..
and by chance met my new Boss lady. The Head Dietician for the department. (geez.. she almost seemed taller(I think it was her pumps gave her an inch). W/o she’d be just a shade shorter maybe. And stacked like a brick pagoda !
Nice womanly features all around but I’m not supposed to notice that . When she arrived she seemed rather perturbed.. her diet techs, 2 Airmen hadn’t reported in yet.. she was trying to find where they might be.. (They were due two weeks earlier). She was carrying on like a
F5 tornado... She stopped to catch herself.. and looked at me and apologized, ask’g was I in the middle of s’thing. “Nothing that can’t wait a few minutes, Ma’am!”
I replied. The Airman came out from In the back . Here are your amendments SSGT, He had a stack of 15 he gave me .. “And where are you going SSGT. Herrst? “. To
the hospital, ma’am!” You should of seen her eyes light up.. “and where at the hospital, SSGT. ? I
Believe it’s Nutrition/Dietary Ma’am.. She’d about fainted.. gee leave to women to get dramatic !.. fortunately I caught her, she looked like she was about to teeter over..
“Are you ok, Ma’am, you look like you had a spell!” The Airman clerk went in back and came out with a little bottle of water and a cup.. opened it and pured her some.. She took it and took a couple sips..
“Not a word ! You got that!” ... “It’s
Almost 90•F out there, ma’am!”...
I walked with her back to her car and made sure she was good to
drive. I got in my car and went to the Sqdn bks. Where the orderly room was and checked i

When at Langley AFB in early to mid
80’s, I was on RDF team and it seemed that even on down time were limited in consumption of
Alcohol.. we were allowed medium consumption snd should be ready and available within 8 hours of being notified if probable deployment is imminent.

Do some research into why it was federally prohibited.. it may open your eyes. It's pretty sad to be honest. A plant that grows in the ground, the same plant that can alleviate many ailments without the terrible side effects of prescription medicine, can put you behind bars..

There is a website called "project CBD" which shares a wealth of information on medical marijuana, which I have found beneficial. They are also producing more strands which are higher in CBD to THC ratios, which also have much less of the "getting high" properties. I much appreciate this as I desire pain relief but very much always want a clear functioning mind.

I live in WA state, and have not observed any negative impacts since legalization, either. Yes there are idiots who will drive impaired, but such idiots existed prior. I like the Govt control and standardization of the product, not having to worry what else is in it. I never touched the stuff while serving tho, had no medical need then, either.