Posted on 04/16/2023 12:34:37 PM PDT by fwdude
The Big Apple is now the Big Blunt.
Not just because decriminalized marijuana led to proliferating mayhem in the five boroughs.
Not just because stinky smoke hangs everywhere, seeping into subway cars and even Broadway theaters — the acrid odor I detected in the crowded men’s room of the Majestic Theatre a few weeks ago was not from “The Phantom of the Opera” smoke machine.
It’s also because of a forbidden-to-utter truth, in an age where raising the minimum wage ever higher has become mantra — namely, a license to get high has turned service employees into zombies.
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You had no idea. I say this because the biggest drinkers, alcoholics etc, can easily hide their addictions while at work. This is certainly not news. The occasionally drinker? Not so much.
Actually you don’t have to sleep. I sleep sometimes and sometimes I don’t. It never affects me during the day and I do my best thinking at night. Why you would want to drug yourself to the point of oblivion is beyond me. Get more work done. Life does not go on forever.
I always figured a man’s smoke is his business.
Is THIS why the New York GOP did better than expected, on November ‘22? Zombies who didn’t turn out to vote?
As the son of a nearly lifelong alcoholic and someone who has worked in healthcare, I don’t see a problem with legalizing marijuana. Mariunana does far less damage IMO than alcohol. Just my opinion, which puts me at cross purposes with many Freepers.
I take this stance from a perspective of consistency.
Anyone who drives under the influence of weed should be prosecuted. Anyone who shows up stoned or gets stoned at work should be fired on the spot.
Period.
Bfl
The drug that can cause the worst mental illness, schizophrenia, certainly must also change the brain in less detectable ways as well. Now when you have a large percentage of the population that has had exposure to this drug, they will often be the first section of the population to push for increasingly bizarre social changes, even creating a “wave of the future” bandwagon effect drawing in even those whose brains have not been mutilated by THC. Result: hyperspace advancement of left wing agendas including sexual and other deviance.
That’s my feeling as well. My dad was a high functioning alcoholic, had positions of authority in the military. I don’t think he ever got drunk during the day at work.
Nights and weekends were another thing altogether.
On weeknights and weekends, he would drink to insensibility.
He was never mean. Never abusive. Never loud or abrasive. As a matter of fact, he said very little, and was never disrespectful.
But my whole life as a military a brat, I thought everyone’s father drank to the point of insensibility, head on the table. I thought that was normal. I eventually realized later that it wasn’t.
About 10-15 years after he retired, we had a family intervention. He became sober after the, and for the rest of his life, would attend three or four AA meetings a week and was deeply involved.
He took people from AA in. Helped find them jobs, and even hired them for work at our house.
He was a stellar man, and I hero-worshiped him growing up. He was the most capable and independent man I had ever seen. He could do anything. He would get a book and read about it, and then do it.
But the alcohol was destroying his marriage. By my mother stuck with him, and they ended their lives with the marriage intact, and both of them happy.
Marijuana is dangerous and can cause problems in some people, just as alcohol can. It all depends on the person, and there lies the danger.
Service employees were always zombies. Pot ain’t the cause. This is idiotic.
I do, however, agree with the stench thing. I’m in New York City all the time and every street in Manhattan reeks of weed. I don’t know why it can’t be treated as alcohol. You can’t drink legally on the street, you shouldn’t be able to smoke pot on the street either…
We live in the I-5 corridor and worked in the I-5 corridor. And my wife and I still commute every day. You must either be a shut-in, or you are being willfully ignorant. Your reality is the opposite of what has actually happened. There is not any day of the week when we don't smell it coming form the cars in front of us or in the neighborhoods we live and work in.
Legal marijuana is now outselling both alcohol and tobacco combined. Just like in California and other states legal marijuana is estimated to be less than half of what is actually consumed. Marijuana in Washington State is a multi-billion dollar industry. There were $1.85 Billion in legal sales in Washington State in 2022... But you haven't noticed a thing?
Riding my motorcycle on 212th in Kent leaving Boeing in the afternoon I smell burning spliff all the way to the 167 freeway. In
“Weed turns them to zombies but booze doesn’t? Strange...”
Took 17 posts for a pot head to show up. You always bring up the alcohol angle to justify getting stoned. Most people don’t drink to get drunk. People smoke weed to get stoned.
Military. No, even the big time drinkers did NOT show up drunk. They drank AFTER work. Same when I worked taxes. No one showed up to work on taxes drunk. Maybe a few did with a hangover but nothing obvious.
Unlike the glazed-eye people showing up at work and using while at work. I did experience that long ago in the civilian world before it was legalized.
Well, bloody DUH!!
I’ve had the experience of being a wsrehoise superviisor at Dover AFB, De., watching new recruits, fresh out of tech school, go from go-getters, to ‘you want it when?’!!!
And that was in 1975!!!!
Some of us old buzzards have seen this kind of crap go on, but y’all just think we’re old and do not know what we are talking about, in this case.
Y’ALL MADE THIS SANDBOX BY YOUR VOTES AND SILENCE. So now, go play in your kitty-littered sandbox, and leave me alone!
That’s fine, don’t believe me.
It is also making NYC stink! Several friends of mine from NYC have said the smell of pot is terrible.
I find the scent of burning cannabis enticing.
Interestingly, on the form to purchase a firearm it is okay to drink booze, but not to use pot, even if it is legal in one’s state.
You can drink one drink and not be impaired. Smoke one joint of today’s dope and you’re wasted. I know this because a very close friend smokes every night and he’s plastered. Then he falls asleep.
I’m a “little l” libertarian.
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