They could legalize marihuana tomorrow, that doesn‘t mean the CF will change their policy and allow it.
"Rules" are not the same as "laws".
As a 28-year-old, I figured I would have no problem snagging a beer or two on course all summer last year at Meaford. However, my course was a dry one, and the fact that I was "of age" didn‘t matter. No candidates were permitted off the tent lines until we had freedom of the base, and even then, the mess was not always permitted. It sucked, but oh well. I didn‘t join the army expecting there to be no rules.
Perhaps my years of enforcing laws is jading me, but I have less and less respect for dopers.
The more of them the meet, the more I‘m glad I‘m not like them. I‘ve met violent people who smoke dope -- mainly between their fixes of other kinds of drugs. When they‘re stoned, they‘re not so bad, but when they come down, or they‘re stressing about other things, they‘re down right nasty. Generalization? Sure. All of them like that? Probably not. But I‘ve met some who were.
I have no desire to associate myself with these people.
This summer, several members of my section tent would spend their weekends in nearby Wasaga Beach, smoking bud, drinking their face off, etc. I recognize they needed a stress relief, and I also recognize that they are mostly the young and stupid. They are not considering the consequences of their behaviour. Some will learn, some will not. I often wonder if those individuals are still in the army right now. I am guessing they have less than a year before they figure out that their views and the CF‘s views are miles apart.
Would I rat them out? I didn‘t. Did I talk to them about it? Yes. I cautioned them that they are taking serious risks which may affect their CF careers, and their futures. But the fact is if their values are that incongruent with the CF‘s, they don‘t belong in it. If that means one day I would have to report them, then I hope that day doesn‘t come, because I think I‘ll do the right thing.