How long until marijuana is legal in the military?

Well here is a not so smart guys response to that and I will respond from an Army prospective. Most medical conditions currently being treated by Marijuana would probably be Medical Board conditions anyway. Listen the Army is forward very few REMF positions in the Army. Even if you had a condition that required Marijuana it would be like insulin dependency you could not deploy to war zone. So my answer would be never if I were in charge!

When?
1:After it is federally removed from the illicit drug schedule
2: After there is a instant read out test to confirm use (Like BAC is for Alcohol)
Once those two things happen, there is no reason it should not be allowed. People should make an adult, educated decision if any ingestion of a drug, be it nicotine, Alcohol, prescription or THC is a acceptable and ok thing.. so long as it does not affect one's duties.. IOW no being under the influence while on duty or in a position, status where recall to duty in a prescribed time line would be less that the drug effects lasted..

It won't. Some concerning side effects of THC include slowed reaction time, increased heart rate, lowering of blood pressure, and increased bleeding.

Do any of these sound like potential symptoms you would want in a soldier?

As a cerified drug recognition expert or DRE I can say that I hope it is never legal. The associated high with marijuana use is not correlated to its impairment as it is with alcohol. Although the "high" only lasts hours, the impairment on the body lasts for approximately a week. Even though it is legal in some states, users are in esence giving up their ability to drive as they would be impaired for a week after a single use. In the military this impairment puts lives at risk. I have given DUIs to people who smoked many days prior and were no longer high, but still impaired.

As a cerified drug recognition expert or DRE I can say that I hope it is never legal. The associated high with marijuana use is not correlated to its impairment as it is with alcohol. Although the "high" only lasts hours, the impairment on the body lasts for approximately a week. Even though it is legal in some states, users are in esence giving up their ability to drive as they would be impaired for a week after a single use. In the military this impairment puts lives at risk. I have given DUIs to people who smoked many days prior and were no longer high, but still impaired.

I would think never. It is not legal in the US in any state because of the Federal Law that describes it as a controlled substance with little or no medical use. The motor functions while on that particular illegal drug degrade your ability to move around safely, make critical decisions. On a ship that would be lethal in many cases. The same goes for the Air Force. Imagine an aircraft maintainer high while performing routine work on the plane. It is absolutely detrimental to good order and disciplne and has no business being involved with military service. If you are interested in seeing the effects of drug use and the Navy do some research of mishaps, accidents, and gross violations of duty just after Viet Nam. You might be surprised.

Everyone I used to know that did use marijuana listens to a lot more music, but can do a lot less math. I'll keep the math.

This change will be slow in coming. The current command has a mindset against Marijuana and is unlikely to change that opinion because of state laws. It will probably take decades as people from states with legalized marijuana laws move in to command positions and have a top down change in perspective.

And if one is high or drunk, how does one work or shoot accurately? One can be of any sexual preference and shoot straight, but not drunk or high!

Never as many of the states that legalized it are now seeing the health side effects of drugs.

Much greater effect on the body than alcohol.