Your feelings on marijuana...

pass the Twinkies! Marijuana tied to better blood sugar control - chicagotribune.com

 

Is there anything THC can't do?

 

Not really....

 

Smoking Marijuana is legal where I live (in the Netherlands).
It's more popular with the tourist than with the locals.
It doens't do much for me, the first few times you need to laugh a lot, after that you just become passive and hungry.

 

Note to self need to visit the Netherlands.

 

The cover story two Sundays ago in the New York Times Magazine was about the development of a low desire pill for women. There were hundreds and hundreds of comments for the story online - another topic, probably. (Sad how many people, especially women, had just given up on sex and never wanted to deal with it again.) But one comment caught my attention - it was from a middle aged woman who said she and her husband had started to engage in couples sex with others and that it had been great for their sex life and their marriage. But what caught my eye was her suggestion that better than a pill was their use of marijuana cookies - she waxed eloquent about how great they were for an evening of sex. I must say, I really wanted to meet that woman.

 

But there are rarely implications to having alcohol in your system, just illegal drugs. If we started firing people for getting popped for alcohol it would cause a national crisis. The liability angle really doesn't hold water when you consider alcohol.

 

That was supposed to be a reply to sir lance but something weird happened.

 

If you show for work at an already potentially dangerous factory or industrial setting with enough alcohol in your blood stream to register on a breathalyser or other test then you should face some serious penalties.
I never touch the stuff myself but have no problem with people enjoying such things. The phrase "enjoy responsibly" certainly does apply though.

 

But when you consider the very large segment of the employed who don't work in labor or manufacturing, but office jobs, who can be fired for smoking on their own time and not for drinking, it just doesn't add up.

 

What's worse for an employer?
1. Coming to work with a massive hangover.
2. Smoking pot the night before.

Here lies the question. Would you fore someone for doing something on their own time and it having no affect at work the next day, or coming to work hung over as hell and everyone noticing it.

 

I must admit Ralphie, I was cycling to the station to go to work one morning when I realized I was still pissed from the night before. I made it into work, white faced and shaking - spent several hours trying to work between bouts of vomiting and crawled off home early. Aint ever been like that with a smoke the night before.
Seems that, smoking you giggle at the ugly people, whilst drunk you might find them briefly amazingly attractive and sleep with them.

 

Despite how I'm for legalization for practical reasons, I generally find marijuana and the slovenly subculture that materializes around it to be pretty pathetic and disgusting. I blame D.A.R.E. for my wildly irrational feelings on the topic.

That and it's blatantly obvious that 78% of TFP has a Cheech and Chong t-shirt in their closet somewhere, so this thread might as well be in Tilted Politics next to a gun control thread.

So, yeah, it's okay to enjoy whatever on occasion, but you should never let it impact your relationships or your employment.

 

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDVmgUeFkE0


'Most marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, jazz musicians, and entertainers. Their satanic music is driven by marijuana, and marijuana smoking by white women makes them want to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and others. It is a drug that causes insanity, criminality, and death — the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.' - Anslinger - who probably should have been drowned at birth.

 

That and maybe the "keep that shit to yourself" rule. Everybody violates it, sure, but let's be honest: Nobody out there really gives a shit how __buzz word for buzzed__ you are.

I might get sauced and babble about it once in a blue moon, but my experience with stoners is that they can't fucking shut up about their magical plant. Enough, goddamnit.

 

Everyone I've worked for and consulted for has a no drugs in the workplace policy that includes alchohol. Show up impaired, be shown the door. This applies to everyone, manufacturing, office, etc. It's very common and commonly enforced.

In a practical sense, I think it should be legalized. The cartels are a replay of the mafia, and the mafia got it's power from prohibition.