Nurses Who Smoke Marijuana

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I am currently taking my prerequisites for Nursing. I know two nurses, one is a friend of my mothers and she is a Nurse Practitioner and my boyfriend's mother is a charge nurse in the ICU. Both of them smoke Marijuana (occasionally) and they haven't had any issues with their career. Although I have seen a thread on allnurses talking about a woman being fired from her job because she tested positive for Marijuana during a random drug test at work. So my question is, why do some people get FIRED for smoking marijuana but some don't and continue to advance in their career with no issues? Is it just because they didn't get caught through drug testing? Do Nurses know when their employers will be giving drug tests or how often?

Thanks!

Yes, you may be deemed not impaired via FST, etc. even if your blood shows THC, or other stuff- but you will be arrested, anyway- for being in possession of a controlled substance. Nursing wise, better to have an alcohol DUI on your record- but why split hairs when you're life will be ruined anyway? Best not to temp fate, yes.

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nisteber said:
No your statement is wrong. THC can still be found a person's blood but they are no longer impaired. If you smoke Friday you can easily go to work Monday un-impaired. It's very similar to drinking alcohol. No idea what you are trying to say about DUI being the number one arrests. 80,000 people die a year from alcohol related crashes. 0 die from marijuana related anything. That's the facts. It's on the CDCs website. Somebody please end this thread so I stop responding. Thank you.

I'm sure that at least one person has died from marijuana related anything.

Google search, killed by high driver

Charge: Driver, high on pot, killed woman in Interbay wreck - seattlepi.com

Charge: High driver killed teen pedestrian

"Driver states he is not impaired"

I wonder how many Drunk drivers openly admit they're impaired ?

Just saying.

I'm sure there have been people killed by just about everything. Vending machines kill people.

We are the same breed that needs ''This cup may be hot" On coffee cups.

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Specializes in Emergency.

Best reply in this entire thread! Thanks for the laugh!!

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Specializes in Med Surg - Renal.

This reminds me of one of my favorite stories from my previous engineering career. The Manufacturing Manager was hiring for assembly positions and told applicants, "We have a zero-tolerance drug policy."

One applicant asked, "Even pot??"

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Hey I just have a question for you guys. Has anyone here ever been arrested for marijuana posession while a nurse and what happened to you from the BON? I would really appreciate some helpful answers.

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What will happen to a nurse arrested for marijuana? The same thing that will happen for any drug offense, DUI, or other crime. Up to and/ or including your license being revoked, in the end. If your license isn't revoked, your chance of getting a nursing job will be forever greatly diminished. At the outset though- if you have been arrested, be sure to report yourself to the BON ASAP- if you don't self-report according to the timeline they give you, you are already that much worse off...

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Alisonisayoshi said:
I just want to mention there are side effects and consequences to pot. Sorry to burst a smokers bubble, but there are. Currently pot is decriminalized. In some states it's even "legal" for medical use (where I live the Feds are suing our county to put an end to reckless medical use and growth but its currently legal).

Here's my b@$ch about pot: hey did you know your casual use is a blight on MY community? Yup it is. My cute, picturesque, small town is now overrun by MS13. We have murders, assaults, and skyrocketing crime rates all relating to pot. Pot is big business. So that joint you are smoking, that one joint? Yeah just know somebody might have been murdered for that. Seems crazy just for pot, but this cash crop is poisoning the land and water, it's inciting violence, and it's doing it in SOMEONE'S back yard.

Please don't act like its some victimless crime to smoke. It's not.

Well, you realize that is one of the biggest arguments FOR decriminalizing and/or legalizing right? If something is legal, you don't need to resort to criminals and gangs to get it for you. Jus' sayin'.

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DavidKarl said:
Your facts about alcohol related driving deaths are incorrect. I have written a book about DUI over the past two years, and have researched my facts, exhaustively- in order to spare others the agony of my own event. (YES, one drink CAN get you arrested, impaired or not- don't take the bait and believe that you have to have a certain blood alcohol level). And, NO- most auto accidents and deaths are NOT alcohol related. In fact, if you are pulled over, and blood tested, and have marijuana in your system, you WILL be not only be automatically arrested for drug DUI- you will ALSO be arrested on a second charge of possession of a controlled substance. So, then- you cannot say that having it in your system is not an issue. Also, a drug DUI (pot, beandryl, heroin, doesn't matter) carries far heavier penalties than an alcohol DUI- therefore, the people that craft DUI laws disagree with you that having marijuana in your system is not a problem.

I think the point the previous poster was trying to make was regarding how many accidents are caused while under the influence of alcohol vs accidents while under the influence of pot. You are kinda making a straw-man argument my friend...

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Not to belabor the point, but in Arizona, now- arrests for 'marijuana' DUI are almost one half of all DUI arrests. This information is from the AZ AG office, in Phoenix, 2012. Fun side note: In AZ, if you are convicted for a marijuana or other dug DUI (even if you had no alcohol in your system when you were arrested), you receive the same mandatory breathalyzer sentence (six months, for first offense) for your vehicle as do alcohol DUI convicts. But again, you also receive further drug related charges and penalties. Also, texting and other driver distractions now account for more vehicle fatalities than does alcohol impairment. I ought to write a book....or another one. Maybe I'll call it "How to Ruin Your Life With a DUI", or something.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

What if I become a practitioner and have my own private practice? Or partner up with an MD. I doubt I'll be randomly drug tested then. pre-employment, sure, but that's never an issue.

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What if I become a practitioner and have my own private practice? Or partner up with an MD. I doubt I'll be randomly drug tested then. pre-employment sure, but that's never an issue.

LMAO

Posting from my phone, ease forgive my fat thumbs! ?

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\ said:
What if I become a practitioner and have my own private practice? or partner up with an MD. I doubt I'll be randomly drug tested then. pre-employment sure, but that's never an issue.

That's assuming you actually make it to that point without getting caught.

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