Pot-smoking Mountie can't smoke in uniform, RCMP says

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A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer with a medical marijuana prescription thinks he should be able to smoke the drug while in uniform, but the RCMP says he can't smoke marijuana while in red serge or while wearing his regular working uniform.

Cpl. Ronald Francis serves with J Division in New Brunswick, and received a prescription for medical-grade marijuana on Nov. 4.

Francis told CBC News marijuana has helped him to calm down and reduces his PTSD symptoms. His prescription allows for three grams a day, which he estimates to be nine to 15 joints, though he said he doesn’t typically smoke that much.

“I get up in the morning, have my coffee and the marijuana. I go at lunchtime, have a marijuana joint, and then again in the evening. That would be my medical regime. But that may change with my tolerance to THC. It may take two joints in the morning, I don't know," said Francis.

"I'm just building up my immunity to THC levels, if I was to smoke two I'd probably get stoned to the point that I'm just totally relaxed. I'm still functional. But your nervous system is relaxed, and that makes a big difference," he said.

Francis, who is currently assigned to administrative duties, said smoking marijuana has no negative effect on his ability to be a police officer and that he intends to continue smoking on the job.

“There’s no policy in the RCMP that prevents me from smoking marijuana. There’s no policy in the RCMP that says I cannot smoke in public. I have the right to smoke it in my red serge.”

RCMP says officers 'should not be in red serge' while smoking marijuana

But while the RCMP accepts that Francis’s prescription gives him the right to consume marijuana, the force takes issue with members smoking in public or in uniform.

“Definitely a member that has been prescribed medicinal marijuana should not be in red serge taking his medication,” said RCMP Deputy Commissioner Gilles Moreau. “It would not be advisable for that member, it would not portray the right message to the general public, it’s definitely not something we would support or condone.”

Moreau said the RCMP has a duty to accommodate members’ medical needs, but also has to consider the effect on other members and on public perceptions.

“Because this is relatively new for active members of the RCMP, we are looking at the internal policies to see, how do we set it up? To say, OK, if somebody is prescribed medical marijuana and they have to take it two or three times a day and have to take it at work, where is this going to take place? If it takes place outside, it has to respect the individual but also their co-workers, and it has to respect the Canadian population at large by taking it in a respectful way.”

The RCMP has the right to challenge medical treatments it considers inappropriate, and to seek a second medical opinion, Moreau said, adding that RCMP will evaluate any member who obtains a medical marijuana prescription.

If they are found to be impaired in judgment or motor skills, the RCMP will place limits on the police functions they're permitted to perform, he said.

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Because he is at work and shouldn't be high perhaps?

If he is that much of a pussy that he needs to be stoned at work then he would make a terrible cop.
 
You would hope that the real reason for him wanting to do this is just to further push the bounds of legal marijuana rather being a little wacked in the head. I would never put my name on something like this in the public eye. What is he thinking and why is he making such a stink about it? You already have a script to smoke 3 grams a day but yet you want to push for being able to smoke in uniform, at work, as a cop? Not much sympathy from me. I would be embarrassed as shit if this was my name in the paper but whatever it's not me.
 
Just imagine him arresting someone for cannabis possession while smoking a joint himself. Wouldn't he have to, if it was time for him to medicate and found someone in possession? I can't see this being successful, especially given the government's position on cannabis.
 
I really don't like, nor do I trust law enforcement in general. Some pretty nasty first-hand experiences have contributed to my opinions of "them." That being said...

People come into work in an altered state of mind all the time. And many continue to chase that "high" as the hours go by. The difference between this cop and the average Joe being the psychotropic substance in question, as well as the motive.

Should the part of the workforce who cannot function without caffeine in their system be labelled as pussies? Or what about the (tobacco) smokers who are clearly stressed out at work; and, as a result, they smoke whenever they get a chance? Are they pussies as well?

The only reason this story made headlines is because use of the substance in question is still considered taboo - which is incredibly sad when you consider all the other prescription psychotropic drugs used by the workforce to numb their senses in one way or another.

I see nothing wrong about this cop smoking pot while on the job. In Canada at least, accommodations must be made by the employer to allow the employee to use any prescribed medication while working. And seeing as Cpl. Ronald Francis has been reassigned to a desk job, accommodations were in fact made. If however he's penalized in some way - perhaps his employment suspended or even terminated because he's using a Rx'd med as directed, then I hope he takes the matter to supreme court. Because fuck conventional thinking. "Oh you're a pussy. Walk it off. It's our way, or the highway." <--- The type of "advice" that's likely to get someone who vulnerable to start using more instead of stopping completely.
 
I agree...Just shut your fucking mouth and be discreet!
(I agree with whomever said pretty much the same thing)
 
Is he driving stoned? That's illegal. If this was a truck driver or even taxi driver he would be off the road. I can do my job high but I don't carry a gun. I am not even anti pot smoking and driving, it's just they enforce those laws and it's one more thing they get away with while busting me for it.
 
He might be driving a car in GTA V now that he's been assigned a desk job...
 
USA cops should all have to smoke ganja at least once a day.. maybe smoking a lil weed would open their mind to not be sadistic people who enjoy ruining peoples lives for drug posession...
 
Yea this guy can smoke 3 grams a day and is complaining about not being able to burn on the job? Come on now...thats redic. And american law enforcement truly love ruining the lives of drug users. That is a cold fact.
 
I think they really see it as a 'good vs. evil' situation....like drug use will just die out and 'good people' will prevail....

Without drugs, at least 50 percent of them would be gone....I wish I had a way to fuck up their lives...If there's a God I know he sees the ignorance and hypocrisy.
 
I can't shake the thought that the movie 'Super Troopers' inspired this dude to toke on the job, in uniform, out in public.

"Meow what the fuck are ya laughin' at?"
 
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