DHS Head John Kelly gave a clear signal that the Trump administration is heading for a marijuana

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44. True. I'm thinking of regular business model that seems to involve managers

'keeping employees on their toes' with their management style. I've had lots of jobs over the years, but the ones where a business is run by some recent MBA, they make sure they don't have a benevolent relationship with their employees at the lower level. High status employees were treated well so the manager was quite capable of affability. They did loss leader sales events, connected directly to all their customers via email, had half their
staff as temp workers, so they were on the ball regarding recent management practice.

So too someone I know worked in a family run retail business for years. Then the family hired managers that follow this same management style above and the relationship with staff has deteriorated so much so many long term employees have left. The people who left were men and women in their 50s, 60s and 70s. Far, far less willing to be forced into a cat and mouse anxiety situation for the purpose of increasing every last ounce of productivity out of the staff.

Can you imagine what Marijuana looks like to GOP CEOS whose bonuses only come from increases productivity in a world where productivity is slowing down? Women are almost fully in the workplace. Manufacturing has been pretty well outsourced. Hedge funds have consolidated almost every type of business into huge corporations that are lean and literally mean. The smart poor get pell grants. Where are the new increases in profits going to come from to result in a bonus of millions for the CEO if everyone can smoke up? They count on staff 'taking work home' and dwelling on it. Work- related anxiety increases creativity. Marijuana stops that cold. Or at least stops people caring about some job. People with ptsd sometimes get a prescription for weed pills so I know it calms people.

High tech is fast growing enough that managers don't have to squeeze everything out of their employees for the CEO. The issue facing most high tech corporations regarding growth is access to good employees. They try everything they can to keep good people. I worked in the CEOS office of a high tech corporation for a few months. They liked me and offered to buy me a car if I would become more than a temp. I was in the middle of something so could not put down roots. Working at a growing high tech corporation is like working in a booming economy. Everyone loves each other and nobody is squeezed or scapegoated. Very predictable. Especially when stock options are involved. So all sorts of extra curricular activity is accepted as their target employees are the very creative 18 to 40 year olds who want fun lives outside of work. They dictate what is acceptable.