PROF IS IMPAIRED

Re: "Smoking pot on campus," Nov. 1, 2006

Dear Editor,

There is now a chance to study the effects of pot on the impairment of
an individual. Allowing a professor to smoke on the job for his health
is the perfect opportunity to study the side effects of an intelligent
individual's marijuana use, unless somehow we are to think that this
legal consumption is free of impairment.

Because the professor is ill, he can be allowed to teach impaired goes
against my understanding. According to the government, he would be
dangerous behind the wheel, which requires clear thinking on a very
basic level, yet he is allowed to earn a high salary instructing
students who have paid large sums for excellent teaching. Does he
drive to work too? Do other patients who use impairing medicines get
to come to work and draw their full salary for their impaired efforts?
Or do they stay home and nurse their health and not endanger others
while ripping off their employer?

Why can't we have legislation (drug-impaired driving) introduced for
real threats, not only political purposes? Where are the undeniable
facts of impairment due to marijuana ingestion? Impairment, by
definition, should not be hard to prove if it exists. Intelligent
students in the professor's classes should soon be protesting that
their instructor is impaired.

Why are the figures of increased carnage on our roads not made public
as they are for alcohol impairment? The reason is that they don't exist.

Klaus Kaczor