First, define what an important job is, because I can state unequivocally that I am in an important job. One where there are real consequences for making a poor professional judgement.

Cannabis is far less impairing that the prescription medication I was on previously. That being said, I don't go to work impaired. (Full disclosure: I'm Canadian, and it is legal for medical use here. At the Federal level, none of this laboratories of democracy nonsense)

Secondly, the problem is that some metabolized drugs remain in your system for a very long time. Cannabinoids are fat soluble and stay within your body far past the time where they would be impairing, but are detectable by a drug screen. The medication I was on, and I have already established is far more impairing, would be fully metabolized and not detected by a drug screen after 3 days. This is like saying you must be drunk because you had a glass of wine a week ago.

Thirdly, if someone is addicted, they need medical help, not judicial punishment. Losing a job exacerbates a person's hardship, and has far greater cost to society as a whole.

Finally, before you say that I'm a tree hugging, granola eating, tie dye wearing liberal hippie, I'm as conservative as it gets. I'm Albertan. A "Snow Texan" if you will.

Evidence based policy should drive the bus. Not opinion. And especially not moral judgement.