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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I don’t know you, I was asking you a question about what you posted painting pre-leftist America as evil
Well, the relative productive ones weren’t. Now, they are.
“The problem is in the grand scheme of things, these drugs sap people of ambition. At least those folks with the ‘three martini lunches’ had some ambition.”
Some drinkers have ambition and accomplish great things, while others are violent alcoholics, or at best very sub-par performers.
Some people who smoke weed have ambition and accomplish great things, while others are chronic layabouts and are at best very sub-par performers.
It’s not at all the binary proposition you describe.
And especially since many do abuse both weed and alcohol.
No, you said, “You hated America...” with no knowledge of me. You just jumped to your preconceived conclusion.
I never had a big problem with co-workers getting drunk ON THE JOB. Plenty got drunk after they went home, but not ON THE JOB.
Weed? You can get high trying to get served at Burger King....
You are the first Libertarian that I have ever heard admit that.
In WA State, they got around some of the objections to legalization by applying the same restrictions on marijuana that they applied to cigarettes. So, it couldn’t be smoked in public or within 25 feet of the entrance to a public building. Then, they started legalizing possession of small amounts of all drugs and are now at the point of government providing the hard drugs, along with the needles and pipes in King County and Seattle. They call it safe drug use, I call it, assisted suicide.
This is exactly what your overlords want. A drugged up society. I don’t care if I hurt, can’t sleep, can’t concentrate. I’m not drugging myself up. I will be sane in an insane world.
3 martinis might get you high but 1 drink won’t. Just one joint gets you high. By the way, cigarettes don’t get you high.
Cigarette smokers won WWII, including the Commander in Chief, and the Supreme Allied Commander.
It was a one-sentence question with a question mark at the end.
Read it again.
Are you stoned or feeling high now?
1 joint gets you high. 1 drink doesn’t. Some people can’t stop at 1 drink but 1 joint is YOU’RE HIGH.
No police? No problem, just call those social workers to take care of you.
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My brother got called in by the union because he refused to work with a particular apprentice. When asked why, my brother told them that this apprentice was so-so in the morning and totally worthless in the afternoon because he spent his whole lunch hour getting stoned. One union official defended the apprentice by saying that pot was now legal in this state. My brother pointed out that liquor has been legal since the repeal of prohibition and a company can fire an employee for being drunk without union interference. Why would pot be different? The union official admitted he had a point and they found another apprenticeship for the employee, so my brother got rid of the deadweight.
Police do serve a valuable function, but their power has to be limited. The last forty years or more has been a trend of increasing militarization of the police, even local forces. If the police no longer serve the public interest, or are restrained by law (such as the US Constitution) then they become just as big a problem as criminals. In fact, these days, police serve more as a deterrent against law-abiding citizens to defend themselves against criminals than as any form of protection from them. When that becomes the case, we would be better off without them. I would rather live in the Wild West than Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany.
Still making assumptions about something you know nothing about.
“By the way, cigarettes don’t get you high.”
Sure, but people are not only complaining about people being high, they’re complaining about the stink, yet I can remember a time when just about every public space in the country, including workplaces, restaurants, and airplanes, were filled with cigarette smoke stinking the place up. And many view those as “the good old days”.
These work well, but they smell funny.
You really don’t know what a “question” is?
People still smoke a whole joint? Why that’s like drinking 180 proof alcohol. Oh, wait. That’s OK, right?
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