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10-23-2025 | 08:58 AM
#61
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Sugar causes health issues as does many things. I never however had to break up a fight between two sugar addicts or watch lives and families destroyed in an instant on our roads by a sugar high. Thats before you even discuss the internal destruction to families an alcoholic can cause.
Let’s not even get into the bane of my existence in the Caribbean sailing. Drunken Idiots!
Let’s not even get into the bane of my existence in the Caribbean sailing. Drunken Idiots!
10-23-2025 | 02:14 PM
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
If you watched a loved one die of cancer, you watched glucose at work. If you watched a loved one vanish under dementia, a stroke, or be taken in a flash with a massive cardiac arrest and blocked arteries...you watched glucose and sugar at work, and didn't know it. Most don't. It's far, far more pervasive than any classified drug, or alcohol, and far, far deadlier and destructive. Most don't think of it in terms of anything but weight gain or diabetes. Like hypoxia, the effects are insidious, and the danger often ignored.
10-23-2025 | 02:31 PM
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RFK..John John spun into the sea off Martha’s Vineyard back in Summer of ‘99.
10-23-2025 | 06:01 PM
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Sugar causes health issues as does many things. I never however had to break up a fight between two sugar addicts or watch lives and families destroyed in an instant on our roads by a sugar high. Thats before you even discuss the internal destruction to families an alcoholic can cause.
Let’s not even get into the bane of my existence in the Caribbean sailing. Drunken Idiots!
Let’s not even get into the bane of my existence in the Caribbean sailing. Drunken Idiots!
01-09-2026 | 04:12 PM
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I know this is an old thread but it has brought up additional questions regarding MJ use and the FAA physical. Is a one time use of cannibis a disqualifier?
The way I'm reading the regulations (Part 67, neurologic here's the link): https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-1...part-67#67.209
It says "No substance abuse within the preceding 2 years DEFINED as:" and then the four definitions are (I'm paraphrasing):
1. Use of substance in a situation in which that use was physically hazardous. So a one time use at home would not qualify?
2. positive drug result. (Assuming no test taken)
3. misuse of a substance that makes the person unable to perfrom duties going forward. Is a one time use considered "misuse"?
The reason I'm asking is because I know of a teenager interesting in flight training that does not use or abuse MJ or alcohol, but took a gummy one time during a bout of nausea, which was also his first time, and then never did it again. So this thread has me interested in this question.
The way I'm reading the regulations (Part 67, neurologic here's the link): https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-1...part-67#67.209
It says "No substance abuse within the preceding 2 years DEFINED as:" and then the four definitions are (I'm paraphrasing):
1. Use of substance in a situation in which that use was physically hazardous. So a one time use at home would not qualify?
2. positive drug result. (Assuming no test taken)
3. misuse of a substance that makes the person unable to perfrom duties going forward. Is a one time use considered "misuse"?
The reason I'm asking is because I know of a teenager interesting in flight training that does not use or abuse MJ or alcohol, but took a gummy one time during a bout of nausea, which was also his first time, and then never did it again. So this thread has me interested in this question.
01-10-2026 | 07:51 PM
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Gummies are concentrates. THC vape cartridges likewise. Yes they are toxic to those lacking routine user tolerance. Yes like most substances taken in excess, they can and do send patients to ER with adverse reactions. In rare cases, deadly.
I’m thinking PM is typically best for poster discretion of such matters fwiw.
I’m thinking PM is typically best for poster discretion of such matters fwiw.
01-11-2026 | 07:58 AM
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
I know this is an old thread but it has brought up additional questions regarding MJ use and the FAA physical. Is a one time use of cannibis a disqualifier?
The way I'm reading the regulations (Part 67, neurologic here's the link): https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-1...part-67#67.209
It says "No substance abuse within the preceding 2 years DEFINED as:" and then the four definitions are (I'm paraphrasing):
1. Use of substance in a situation in which that use was physically hazardous. So a one time use at home would not qualify?
2. positive drug result. (Assuming no test taken)
3. misuse of a substance that makes the person unable to perfrom duties going forward. Is a one time use considered "misuse"?
The reason I'm asking is because I know of a teenager interesting in flight training that does not use or abuse MJ or alcohol, but took a gummy one time during a bout of nausea, which was also his first time, and then never did it again. So this thread has me interested in this question.
The way I'm reading the regulations (Part 67, neurologic here's the link): https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-1...part-67#67.209
It says "No substance abuse within the preceding 2 years DEFINED as:" and then the four definitions are (I'm paraphrasing):
1. Use of substance in a situation in which that use was physically hazardous. So a one time use at home would not qualify?
2. positive drug result. (Assuming no test taken)
3. misuse of a substance that makes the person unable to perfrom duties going forward. Is a one time use considered "misuse"?
The reason I'm asking is because I know of a teenager interesting in flight training that does not use or abuse MJ or alcohol, but took a gummy one time during a bout of nausea, which was also his first time, and then never did it again. So this thread has me interested in this question.
01-11-2026 | 08:19 AM
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Originally Posted by walknbluez;[url=tel:3990210
3990210[/url]]I know this is an old thread but it has brought up additional questions regarding MJ use and the FAA physical. Is a one time use of cannibis a disqualifier?
The way I'm reading the regulations (Part 67, neurologic here's the link): https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-1...part-67#67.209
It says "No substance abuse within the preceding 2 years DEFINED as:" and then the four definitions are (I'm paraphrasing):
1. Use of substance in a situation in which that use was physically hazardous. So a one time use at home would not qualify?
2. positive drug result. (Assuming no test taken)
3. misuse of a substance that makes the person unable to perfrom duties going forward. Is a one time use considered "misuse"?
The reason I'm asking is because I know of a teenager interesting in flight training that does not use or abuse MJ or alcohol, but took a gummy one time during a bout of nausea, which was also his first time, and then never did it again. So this thread has me interested in this question.
The way I'm reading the regulations (Part 67, neurologic here's the link): https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-1...part-67#67.209
It says "No substance abuse within the preceding 2 years DEFINED as:" and then the four definitions are (I'm paraphrasing):
1. Use of substance in a situation in which that use was physically hazardous. So a one time use at home would not qualify?
2. positive drug result. (Assuming no test taken)
3. misuse of a substance that makes the person unable to perfrom duties going forward. Is a one time use considered "misuse"?
The reason I'm asking is because I know of a teenager interesting in flight training that does not use or abuse MJ or alcohol, but took a gummy one time during a bout of nausea, which was also his first time, and then never did it again. So this thread has me interested in this question.
If it wasn’t documented by our legal, medical/insurance, etc industries it never happened
01-11-2026 | 11:11 AM
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https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-e...es-ages-12-20#
I’m not recommending THC gummies any more than I recommend anyone binge drinking. But one gummy one time - assuming you actually survive it - doesn’t appear to be any serious threat to flying safety - at least not after five biological half lives of THC which for a one time user would be about a week.
Prevalence of Past-Month Drinking
According to the 2024 NSDUH, 5.1 million people ages 12 to 20 (13.3% in this age group) reported that they drank in the past month.1,2 This includes:- 2.4 million males ages 12 to 20 (12.4% in this age group)1,2
- 2.7 million females ages 12 to 20 (14.3% in this age group)1,2
- 22,000 American Indian or Alaska Native people ages 12 to 20 (8.1% in this age group)1,2
- 172,000 Asian people ages 12 to 20 (7.0% in this age group)1,2
- 459,000 Black or African American people ages 12 to 20 (8.7% in this age group)1,2
- 7,000 Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander people ages 12 to 20 (4.9% in this age group)1,2
- 3.0 million White people ages 12 to 20 (16.3% in this age group)1,2
- 188,000 people of two or more races ages 12 to 20 (13.0% in this age group)1,2
- 1.2 million Hispanic or Latino people ages 12 to 20 (12.1% in this age group)1,2
Prevalence of Past-Month Binge Drinking
According to the 2024 NSDUH, 2.9 million people ages 12 to 20 (7.6% in this age group) reported binge drinking in the past month (see glossary for definition of binge drinking).1,2This includes:- 1.4 million males ages 12 to 20 (7.1% in this age group)1,2
- 1.6 million females ages 12 to 20 (8.3% in this age group)1,2
- 11,000 American Indian or Alaska Native people ages 12 to 20 (4.2% in this age group)1,2
- 88,000 Asian people ages 12 to 20 (3.6% in this age group)1,2
- 289,000 Black or African American people ages 12 to 20 (5.5% in this age group)1,2
- 4,000 Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander people ages 12 to 20 (2.9% in this age group)1,2
- 1.8 million White people ages 12 to 20 (9.6% in this age group)1,2
- 100,000 people of two or more races ages 12 to 20 (6.9% in this age group)1,2
- 665,000 Hispanic or Latino people ages 12 to 20 (6.5% in this age group)1,2
Prevalence of Past-Month Heavy Alcohol Use
According to the 2024 NSDUH, 576,000 people ages 12 to 20 (1.5% in this age group) reported heavy alcohol use in the past month (see glossary for definition of heavy alcohol use).1,2 This includes:- 320,000 males ages 12 to 20 (1.6% in this age group)1,2
- 256,000 females ages 12 to 20 (1.4% in this age group)1,2
- 3,000 American Indian or Alaska Native people ages 12 to 20 (1.0% in this age group)1,2
- 2,000 Asian people ages 12 to 20 (0.1% in this age group)1,2
- 44,000 Black or African American people ages 12 to 20 (0.8% in this age group)1,2
- 383,000 White people ages 12 to 20 (2.1% in this age group)1,2
- 18,000 people of two or more races ages 12 to 20 (1.3% in this age group)1,2
- 123,000 Hispanic or Latino people ages 12 to 20 (1.2% in this age group)1,2
- Estimates for Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander people ages 12 to 20 were not presented because they were based on a relatively small number of respondents or had a large margin of error.1,2
Prevalence of High-Intensity Drinking
According to the 2024 Monitoring the Future survey, 3.0% of students in 12th grade reported high-intensity drinking (10+drinks in a row) in the last two weeks.3
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