Smoking weed on liveaboard

[herbdb]

I'm with Jim. Why not organize trips just for dope users. You could call it Stoner Diving and really share your experience with like minded people.

I don't like being around drunks or stoners anytime. Sharing a dive boat would really suck.

 

[Wookie]

I have 2 experiences with this. The first time was when I was engineer on another well known liveaboard. 2 stoners showed up, and smoked on the sundeck the first night. The captain asked them not too, and they gave him nothing but grief. The next night, they launched the dingy, sent it out to the end of it's tether, and smoked in the dingy. Burned a hole in the pontoon too. Then they came in, rummaged through the galley, and ate the captain's personal stash of cheese.

Now, that may sound funny, but when you eat the same menu over and over again, a little treat, like a piece of cracker barrel is something special, to be saved and savored. For a doper to eat said cheese is a pretty good insult. So the insult was followed by the stoners being put off on a Dutch island to the applause of the rest of the guests.

The second instance happened on the Spree when I was mate. I found the little guy smoking on the sundeck and turned him in to the skipper. We were met at the dock by the local constabulary and the offending fellow was hauled away.

 

[Tug]

Thanks Wookie

As a follow up to his post I just took this picture of a sign on my boat. Sure I work on a commercial vessel but chances are you will likely see some variation of this on any US flagged vessel

 

[Skydiver1]

Thanks Wookie

As a follow up to his post I just took this picture of a sign on my boat. Sure I work on a commercial vessel but chances are you will likely see some variation of this on any US flagged vessel

Does that include drugs such as valium, xanax, propranolol, nitrazepam, etc.

 

[Tug]

Does that include drugs such as valium, xanax, propranolol, nitrazepam, etc.

In some ways it does include prescription drugs. Any prescription or over the counter drugs that can cause drowsiness aren't allowed. Like I said in my post I work on a tugboat, we push over 5 million gallons of gas so anything that causes drowsiness is a big no no. This is obviously extreme for a dive boat or liveaboard, but illegal drugs are still illegal on US flagged vessels, regardless if you are a crew member or customer.

 

[Farback]

...Then they came in, rummaged through the galley, and ate the captain's personal stash of cheese....

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The first mate he got drunk.
Broke into the Captain's trunk.
The constable had to come and take him away.

The song popped into my head when I read this.
PS I'm a non-doper, occasional glass of wine or beer Buddhist. To each his own. But I wouldn't dive with anyone who took his liquor, dope or religion too seriously.

Kirk

 

[Tug]

and ate the captain's personal stash of cheese.

I'm surprised they weren't kicked off right then and there

 

[Wookie]

Does that include drugs such as valium, xanax, propranolol, nitrazepam, etc.

Every US flagged vessel has that exact warning or one similar to it.

I'm surprised they weren't kicked off right then and there

We moved the boat to the pier first.

 

[Gilldiver]

What most of you have never seen is just what the Coast Guard or Customs will/can do to your boat if and when they want to. How about all passengers and crew being told to sit on the deck at the back in the sun for 4 hours as the boat is tossed and then told they didn’t find a thing. Now your passengers have missed their flights and you have to get the boat back together for the next charter.

By tossed, I mean all the canned goods opened, boxes emptied out onto counters and the deck, every locker and bag opened and dumped, mattresses tossed and might have been cut opened, ……..

In the USA, the Coast Guard and/or Customs, Boarder Patrol, or any other agency that is within the Department of Homeland Security do not need reasonable cause to do this, if you are on waters that communicate with International waters and any other nations waters (Canada or Mexico) you can be stopped and searched at any time. Most other Nations will do so also.

 

[vladimir]

If you need to smoke pot to relax [-]after diving on a tropical liveaboard[/-].... then you seriously need to question how you are [-]diving[/-] living....

I edited that, Andy, because I think the general case is also true. The key word is "need," though. I find it hard to judge an occasional user harshly and don't see a huge distinction between marijuana and alcohol in that regard. But the marijuana smokers I know are mostly chronic users (hence the nickname). The other obvious difference is the legality; I abide by the law, but these nannying laws, in my opinion, should not exist.

Post-Mod Edit: Thanks to Quero for going through the thread with a scalpel rather than a chainsaw. The following was in response to a now-deleted post equating the legal risk of marijuana possession with that of speeding:

The legal consequences of smoking marijuana are roughly equivalent to exceeding the speed limit in a lot of jurisdictions. As I alluded to earlier, there are some places where it is viewed a lot more seriously, including some popular destinations or transit points for liveaboard customers. Bali prisons host a lot of Australians who didn't make the distinction, for example.

Probably the most sensible thread ever!

Stay tuned; I think it's about to go off the rails.