You smoke pot? Sorry we can't hire you...

[Playinghardball]

[Just Saying]

1. True story!

I'm hoping legalization in 2 states is the step towards nationwide. And not medical use-recreational use.

[AgingAmerican]

22. I'm in Washington state

I work for the state. When the law went into effect December 6th, the state put out a policy statement. Do not bring pot to work, or be stoned at work. That's their whole policy.

How cool is that?

Was driving down a street the other saturday and saw three middle aged black guys pulling a motor out of a car, passing around a blunt and talking to a cop who was laughing with them on the sidewalk. How flipping cool is that?

[think]

32. way cool....

[Initech]

2. Who would survive twelve shots and six beers every weekend?

I'm a big guy and I do drink quite a bit, but even that much would probably kill me! Or at least render me incapacitated.

[Ellipsis]

3. You obviously don't know many musicians...

...just sayin'

[Initech]

5. Well hey to quote Clint Eastwood in "Magnum Force"

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"A man's got to know his limitations."

[Initech]

23. Or you haven't seen "Archer".

[4_TN_TITANS]

35. Or people who work in customer service (with the public)...

just sayin'

[Decoy of Fenris]

12. Guilty. :)

Takes me close to two liters of Vodka or a 24-crate of almost any beer to start touching me. I don't drink much, thanks to the effects on my wallet.

[cherokeeprogressive]

14. In a weekend? Don't make me laugh... n/t

[Initech]

16. Don't get me wrong, I could drink that standing on my head.

[cherokeeprogressive]

17. Oh I bet... I just couldn't do it EVERY weekend... so you do have a point.

To be honest; if I could smoke weed I'd probably drink little or nothing except the occasional beer. I have a CDL though and am subject to random piss tests by DOT because of it.

[Lil Missy]

26. Hell, I drank more than that every day in my drinking days.

But yes, I would end up incapacitated too.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

33. I use to.

Back in the day I was one of those people you could just HATE!

That would be a Sat. night for me. Would still be able to walk out of the bar, and wake up early to eat a full breakfast. Not once did I have a hangover.

That was till I turned 33 and my body said I was too old to play like that.

[The Straight Story]

4. Some places won't hire you if you smoke tobacco

but those same companies probably have a lot of people that drink, so that is ok.

Usually the people who are against something and want the govt/companies to step in are people who don't do those things and want to shove their morality down the throats of others. Sort of like fundies who like to control the choices others make.

[darkangel218]

8. One of our clients, in my old job, had a huge container full of ice and beer cans

Right by the garage entrance. They were a big company, 2 story building. They also had one of the fridges in the cafeteria full of beer :p

[Honeycombe8]

6. Yeah. Go figure. Boozers...we love ya! You the party man! Pot? What are you....

a wild, freaky, dope fiend, hippie wannabe? Probably a tree huggin' liberal, too!

[limpyhobbler]

7. completely unfair and hypocritical. time for this to change. nt

[limpyhobbler]

9. It's hard to be an authoritarian shithead when you smoke marijuana.

That's why corporate America is afraid of pot.

[truedelphi]

28. So very very true. n/t

[darkangel218]

10. I like beer. never smoked pot.

But if I can have a beer on my days off, then so can someone smoke pot if that's what they like.

From what I heard alcohol is more toxic than pot.

[kestrel91316]

11. WAAAAAYYYYYY more toxic. Pot never destroyed anybody's

brain OR liver. Never even did damage to them.

Pot aka cannabis is a safe and effective medicine for many ills. It has provided me near-miraculous relief from chronic pain and persistent insomnia. A nightly brownie is all it takes, too.

[darkangel218]

13. Then i dont get it why is not being federally legalized already.

What the fuck is wrong with us?? I know in most European countries lots of people smoke pot and nothing happens to them. Even if its illegal , no one goes to jail.
I personally haven't tried it because I dont smoke and I wasn't going to start just to try pot. But yah, its pretty weird and sick that marijuana is illegal.

I'm not surprised tho, if Mittens had gotten into office , alot more things would have been illegalized.

Grrrrrrrr!!!!

[kestrel91316]

24. Cannabis is illegal because we need to support the

prison-industrial complex and the criminal "justice" system. Wars are waged because we need to support the military-industrial complex.

Now do you see?

[darkangel218]

25. I "see" and i was aware in the past.

Part of me is still in denial.

Don't ask.

[MADem]

27. Big Pharma doesn't care for it--it cuts into their bottom line. nt

[mick063]

15. Alcohol is the consumate negotiating tool

Business runs on it.

The kids you knew in college that drank every weekend?

Business majors.


Just joking.....kinda....maybe not

[badtoworse]

18. Last time I checked pot was illegal and booze wasn't

Companies generally do not hire people with criminal records or those who have a higher than average chance of having one in the future. That is their call.

[demosincebirth]

19. I worked for a large unionized trucking company for many years. The DOT mandates random drug test,

at least once a year. Any kind of illegal drug and they fire you. Most drugs are out of your system withing 48 hours, except, you got it, marijuana. At the very least it stays in your system three weeks. I know of one guy who attended a weekend party where a lot of pot was smoked. He swears he didn't indulge in smoking pot, just some beers,. I believed him. He was picked at random for a drug test four days later...he didn't pass it. He got fired that same day. It took the union four weeks of haggling to reinstate him

[Cleita]

20. I was told if I smoked cigarettes, like tobacco cigarettes, I wouldn't be hired.

This was back in 1982. I felt it was none of their business whether I smoked or not. I didn't smoke, but my husband did and I felt like they were trying to own me. If they didn't want me smoking while on the job fine, but they had no business telling me what to do when on my own time. I would feel the same way about pot. None of their business. Don't do it on the job or before I go to work, but on my time none of their business. I just don't see how companies get away with demanding that their employees don't do activities when they are not at work and that don't interfere with their job performance.

[bhikkhu]

21. Most companies that provide insurance also test for alcohol

One dealership I worked at in the 90's had to fire the whole detail department and the lead mechanic after a random drug test. Alcohol mostly, and a bit of cocaine. Another big chain I worked for also had random tests. You'd get fired for having alcohol in your system just as fast as you'd get fired for pot.

and, on edit, smoking is far more common an issue. Nobody, even in my 35% nicotine addicted area, wants to hire smokers anymore.

[Shivering Jemmy]

29. Don't really understand the need

to play with one's brain chemistry. Alcohol, marijuana... all the same to me. But so many people use both that I couldn't imagine using it as a hiring discriminator though.

[orleans]

30. another true story...

i worked for a fairly small company in the late 1970s--around 35 or 40 people--and the owner allowed discrete one-hitters. he also had a stash of alcohol in his office for after hours socializing. employees were happy, business was successful, and we took it all for granted. god, those were the days!

[leveymg]

31. Guess who had the best pot in my home town?

The cops. One of them was an ex-MP in Vietnam, and he had a home movie party one night - up on the screen were images of an entire Military Police unit at Ton Sun Nut Airport smiling like cats, each of them holding a duffel bag of reddish colored buds that they had just offloaded from an Air America C-130.

Same thing was going on at another end of the pipeline in Germany until about 1989.

Those were the days.

[pipi_k]

34. That attitude is what

ultimately killed my brother two years ago.

He was never much of a drinker. His thing was pot.

The company he worked for started testing for it and firing people who smoked. So he gave it up and turned to alcohol instead.

It took less than five years for the booze to kill him two years ago, at the age of 41, from kidney and liver failure.

It totally stunned me that he could die that soon...I've known people who have been drinking for decades who didn't die that quickly.

Well, I found out that his gastric bypass surgery exacerbated the effects of alcohol metabolism, which is why it didn't take decades for the booze to kill him.

So yeah...it's totally insane that alcohol, which can kill, is allowed, whereas pot, which, to my knowledge, has never done the same thing, is outlawed.

I've known so many people who were killed, in some manner, by alcohol...none who were killed by pot.

[avaistheone1]

36. What?!!

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