Actually, I concentrate better after smoking a small amount. I can sit down and focus on monotonous tasks, or be twice as productive working on my car because my brain isn’t in 10 different places. (ADD most likely). Yet, give me a few beers and I’m lazy and useless. Sometimes I wonder why I only smoke maybe twice a year. Like alcohol, there are different degrees of intoxication, and the people who already use moderate amounts regularly often go unnoticed, same as someone who had one drink or 2 with dinner. You can’t show up for work drunk, or drink on the job in most places, so I would imagine the same rules would apply there. The biggest threat to productivity in the last 10 years is this right here: The internet!
I had roommates in college that smoked so much the night before they were completely useless the next morning. Not all that different from a night of hard drinking still having an effect the next morning.
But apparently weed is a magic drug that only makes people better human beings who work harder. I guess the pot heads that flunked out of college was just a case of misunderstood genius?
so can employers have you tested and refuse to hire you or fire you for smoking cigarettes?
I love the NFL’s stance on the recent legalizations. Many LOL’s.
If you’re already a moron, pot won’t make you smarter. I personally have been around some brilliant people who smoke on a regular basis (CEOs, CFOs, COOs, Small business owners, etc). There are all types that smoke. Saying anyone who smokes is a looser flunky pot head is like saying anyone who drinks beer beats the shit out of their wife and kids.
I smoked more weed in College at RIT then ever before or after; I was stoned pretty close to 24/7. And still graduated with a 3.0 while working 35-40 hours a week while going to school.
I personally don’t remember once waking up in the am with any sort of hangover from weed… other than if I had been up till 4am and had gotten up at 6am; or was drinking heavily on top of smoking.
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Some places do already… I know some places charge more for Health Insurance if you smoke cigarettes and it’s perfectly legal.
You can test for booze but you can’t test for weed. If someone was stoned 2 days ago it will still show up, good luck in court.
A decent number of companies also require you to pass a physical
Funny, I know a great deal of people that are potheads and graduated from good colleges. Not to mention the Supreme court judge that openly admitted to smoking pot. But hes not smart either. lol
Except NY is employee at will and you can fire people for any reason…
Just hope they can’t cook up some discrimination case.
Cigarettes is a terrible analogy for weed. I’m imagining it’d end up being treated pretty much just like alcohol. If you show up to work drunk/high and someone catches you, you’re gonna be in some shit. Come in to work with a weed/alcohol hangover, you might be able to sweat it out through a day. If you do it every day, people are probably going to notice. I doubt this law is going to change the numbers as much as people think. Yes the numbers are going to change a bit at first because it’s a new exciting thing, but once the novelty wears off it’ll be pretty similar to the way it is now. The people that want to smoke are going to, the ones that don’t want to, won’t.
As far as the driving stoned thing, people who want to smoke weed already do it. People already drive while they’re stoned, to be honest I’d feel safer on a street full of stoned people in cars than on a street full of drunk people. I don’t even smoke anymore but I see the logic in it being legal.
The only next day problem from smoking is having to take a massive shit from all the food you ate.
I was going to add that.
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Maybe cocaine should be legalized to fix the obesity problem. 
I like this trend, never knew it was possible though.
Those people are the norm then? I guess they should encourage weed at a younger age, possibly work it into school lunches?
If we can get babies on a ventilator of it when they are born, I think that would be best.
It would certainly eleminate the problem of underweight babies, ALWAYS hungry and ready to eat!
Openly admitted to smoking pot in the past yay they can join a long long long list.
I’m pretty sure you don’t associate with any smart people.
People who smoked large amounts of pot in college and became successful isn’t the norm
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That couldn’t be further from the truth… Not getting into it on the internet, though…