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Colorado businessman blames 'stoned' workers for move to SC
FOX NEWS ^ | April 24, 2015

Posted on 04/24/2015 1:47:42 PM PDT by McGruff

When workers at his Colorado business went to pot, Mark Brawner said it was enough for him to roll out of the Rockies and head for South Carolina.

Brawner, who ran Little Spider Creations out of an old Denver warehouse for years until this month, told KUSA-TV Thursday he moved because pot was hurting his company. He said employees started to come to work stoned after the state legalized the drug for recreational use in 2012.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: cannabis; colorado; homosexualagenda; liberals4pot; libertarians; marijuana; medicalmarijuana; pot; potheads; redstates; southcarolina; wod; workforce
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To: TexasGator

Some nice looking stuff. I’m sure you would need decent trades people who show up reliably and do the work.


21 posted on 04/24/2015 2:06:16 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: TexasGator
Well I guess the good news is that there's no Nuclear Power Plants in Colorado.


22 posted on 04/24/2015 2:06:38 PM PDT by McGruff (It's not the crime, it's the cover-up they said.)
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To: chris37; All

I used to do it all the time, it never hurt my job performance at all.


23 posted on 04/24/2015 2:07:19 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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To: chris37
LOL! Yep. Doesn't matter who it is, or what it is, problem employees must be removed from the work force.

/johnny

24 posted on 04/24/2015 2:07:23 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: McGruff

That’s another drug tested occupation like truckers that may find difficulty.

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part026/part026-0031.html


25 posted on 04/24/2015 2:08:59 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: RginTN; All
Most pot users do not embrace the concept of personal responsibility

That's absolute bull, I suggest you learn something about the subject before you go off mouthing that sort of platitude.
26 posted on 04/24/2015 2:09:39 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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To: McGruff

According to the article, “a ‘nasty’ local government regulator” also influenced Brawner’s decision to move the business to South Carolina. Such local government regulators are very common, even in some of the most remote and sparsely populated parts of CO. That includes some majority Republican counties (radical environmentalists, animal worshipers, all).


27 posted on 04/24/2015 2:12:23 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: notdownwidems

You work for the post office?


28 posted on 04/24/2015 2:12:50 PM PDT by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam/Christian lives matter!)
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To: notdownwidems

Do you have a reading comprehension issue? See the word MOST. I did not write ALL.


29 posted on 04/24/2015 2:13:33 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: notdownwidems

I know a whole lot about the subject and I can tell you that it is very true...


30 posted on 04/24/2015 2:14:07 PM PDT by neverbluffer
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To: clintonh8r

LOL


31 posted on 04/24/2015 2:15:34 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: RginTN; All

Oh so what percentage were you talking about? If you are going to make a blanket statement like that, I would like to know exactly how many you mean. 75%? 80%? Tell me.


32 posted on 04/24/2015 2:15:43 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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To: neverbluffer; All

Absolutely not true


33 posted on 04/24/2015 2:16:13 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“But then, what quality of worker does he think he will get for the wages warehouse workers make?”

I was just out of college working in a warehouse while looking for a real job. I did a good job. But yeah, some of the other guys, that would be warehouse guys the rest of their lives, they did a lot of slacking off. “Hey man - you got to slow down. We need to make this last all day.”


34 posted on 04/24/2015 2:16:36 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: RginTN

Agreed.

When I go out to my old hometown its like stepping back into the 80s because the friends I used to get high with are still there doing exactly the same things.


35 posted on 04/24/2015 2:16:40 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: notdownwidems

He is spot on.


36 posted on 04/24/2015 2:16:55 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: McGruff

In places with lots of drug testing, workers are more likely to abuse alcohol, Rx pills and synthetic pot (all far more impairing and toxic than real pot). I work in construction and know the drill.

Drug tests are also useless for anything other than pot (the only fat-soluble drug). You can do all the meth, blow, heroin and PCP you want and pass a drug test within 24 hours. But if you smoke a single joint 1 week ago, it may show up.

Drug testing is nothing but a scam to sell more booze and Rx pills to people who will choose to get shitfaced nomatter that.


37 posted on 04/24/2015 2:18:31 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: chris37
If you are going to get high, do it on your own time.

Yes, while the "intoxication" effects may only last a few hours, the cognitive impairment of regular use lasts for days. Essentially your IQ drops considerably for several days afterward. It's not that he's "high" now...it's the lingering effect of reduced capacity that is at issue. There then becomes the attentiveness and motivational issues too, with regular consumption.

Smoking pot is not the same as having a drink. I can have a drink or two and not get drunk. You don't take a couple of tokes off a joint like it's a cigarette, you hold it down...the purpose IS to get high.

38 posted on 04/24/2015 2:19:17 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: notdownwidems; RginTN
Well, if you want to parse...

You did say "That's absolute bull..."

So I think the onus is on you to prove an "absolute".

39 posted on 04/24/2015 2:20:55 PM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: RginTN
"Most pot users do not embrace the concept of personal responsibility."

That's obvious. If they were responsible, they wouldn't spend their money on it, get high or sell it to anyone else. They've also proven themselves to be mouthy on public discussion boards but conspicuously deferential in person.


40 posted on 04/24/2015 2:21:01 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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