Cocaine Tea and Military

[SRTthis]

http://www.news4jax.com/news/18644227/detail.html

opinions anyone. I believe the man is innocent. A soldier must wear a badge of discrace because he ingested what i am presuming is a legal product. The course of action before the verdict should have been to create a base test to find if the tea would produce levels of cocaine found in the drug test.

 

[pitbull592]

I read this article in the navy times, as a former sailor 1993-98 GMG3 (SW) I can tell you the navy is hard-core with the testing, anything+ is grounds for immeadiate dismissal. I was glad to see the one sailor get off, but IMO your playing with fire for drinking cocoa tea, jeez I was scared to eat a poppy seed bagel :wink:

 

[SRTthis]

thats strange though. my buddy was in iraq for 2 years and was taking steroids and occasionally using cocaine while over there. i do not approve at all but i guess they dont test that often.

 

[VDubVirus]

my experiance in the Marine Corps. (Cpl/2651) was I saw a lot of people booted for smoking pot, but a the few people that were caught using harder drugs typically had a better chance of staying in for at least the rest of that contract.

on one hand, I understand why this is. Pot is more of a social drug and those that use it in the military, are likely to continue using. Those that use other drugs like meth or cocaine... are typically (from my experiance) one time offenders. In the two commands I was a part of post-training, we had weekley random testing. So, if you smoked, you were prbly ok. anything else would stay in your system far too long to risk. Most Marines understood this and didn't chance it.

 

[argue53]

damn thats rough.... i guess they have to be strict, but give him a break its only tea

 

[SRTthis]

damn thats rough.... i guess they have to be strict, but give him a break its only tea

i believe the ruling was made because they dont believe that tea caused the positive drug test. This is why a base test should have been done on a clean volunteer to see what levels the tea consumption would produce.

 

[DSG_MASTER]

Mate de Coca- it tells you in the name, Coca-ina. Liquid coke :bellyroll:

 

[notkool59]

That is really terrible if he is telling the truth, I mean I know they are strict and have reason to be, but they need to run some more tests. You could probably test his kid, if he says he gave it to him.

 

[pitbull592]

That is really terrible if he is telling the truth, I mean I know they are strict and have reason to be, but they need to run some more tests. You could probably test his kid, if he says he gave it to him.

Yeah, this guy is getting a raw deal IMO, but they may be trying to make a example of him?

 

[julito04]

That tea is amazing. I drank it when I went to a high altitude city in Peru. It helps you get acclamated to the altitude, gives you energy(of course) and helps you breathe easier for some reason. It gives you energy, but its nowhere like taking down a single line or anything of processed yayo. On our 5 day hike, we would chew on the leaves and suck on them. That was more like doing yayo, mouth and lips numb and amazing energy lol.

 

[pitbull592]

That tea is amazing. I drank it when I went to a high altitude city in Peru. It helps you get acclamated to the altitude, gives you energy(of course) and helps you breathe easier for some reason. It gives you energy, but its nowhere like taking down a single line or anything of processed yayo. On our 5 day hike, we would chew on the leaves and suck on them. That was more like doing yayo, mouth and lips numb and amazing energy lol.

That sounds like a good time, do they really eat gineau pigs there?

 

[Raddicted]

my buddy was in iraq for 2 years and was taking steroids and occasionally using cocaine while over there.

So I assume this is the reason why the US military leads the way in number of friendly fire incidents...

When the war first started the allies used to joke around saying that the safest place to be when the US military were around was in an Iraqi uniform. I keed. Sort of. :biggrin:

 

[voxomkid]

That sounds like a good time, do they really eat gineau pigs there?

Yes they do..

There was a Peruvian fest here last year and they sold Guinea Pigs to eat and they were cooking them as well.