Drug Legalization.

@Love Happiness: Except that I can choose to clean up before I go job hunting. I can't choose to stop being a woman for the interview.

^^^^

Drug use is not a protected category, and probably never will be.

edited 31st Mar '11 5:14:50 PM by Barkey

When marijuana is legalized, you'll see privacy lawsuits about that issue.

Eventually, those challenges will win.

Besides, I'm sure that most of the drug users on here are smart enough to realize that if their habit endangers those on the job then they probably should either clean up or get another job. However, for every functional stoner, I've met two more who were complete idiots. It's the idiots that ruin it for the rest of us.

Because for every person like you and I, there's a bunch more who think that they're perfectly capable of driving heavy machinery while stoned.

@Drunk Girlfriend

I realize that, I was just criticizing that attitude. It is very authoritarian.

For obvious reasons I'm not terribly drug friendly, and not terribly sympathetic either.

Didn't you say you disagreed with marijuana prohibition?

Oh, I'm ok with weed being legal, it's everything else that I have a bone to pick with. But at the same time I do feel that if an employer doesn't want to hire stoners, it shouldn't be legally compelled to do so.

I'd have sort of the military attitude towards alcohol, you're forbidden to drink 8 hours prior to the start of your next duty day. This pretty much limits you to drinking on your days off if you do long shift work. You're heavily disciplined if you show up to work hung over or god forbid, drunk.

So when I had weekends off, I would only drink on fridays and saturdays.

edited 31st Mar '11 5:27:59 PM by Barkey

There is also a chance the companies will win out over the privacy issues in face of safety issues.

So more on topic. Lets say we legalize marijuanna. it is common and a known quantity and has been used for quite some time. How would they distribute this via retail? How many cigs to a pack? Once larger companies step in to start large mass produced grow operations how will that affect the cost? Any others?

Here in Ventura we would end up growing it like crazy, I can say that much.

We're the closest viable farmland to Los Angeles, and some of our crops aren't doing all that well in their seasons.

Which also probably means an upswing in armed security jobs, pretty tempting to just roll up and start taking product, especially considering they don't even fence the area off these days.

^^ Is distribution feasible? It's a weed, any fool can produce it. The most you could expect is local head shops doing all the packaging, shrink-wrapping, and shipping. And only locally.

It would be feasible. You would be surprised how easily convenience can win out. Why bother growing your own weed when you can go to your local tobacco hut or gas station and buy a reasonably cheap pack of pre-rolled and prepared smokes. Plus mass production could easily beat out the small private market.

The private market would likely thrive on varieties and species differences. That and doing things like needing what every other business needs to function will go a long way there as well. The green triangle would likely see a lot more private company business as someone would realize they are an established provider. Pay top dollar for a grow business already in swing and you can have luxury quality weed.

I doubt they'd market it in cigs. Weed smokers are used to either growing their own or buying a bag of weed and rolling it up later.

My biggest complaint is our only legal narcotic had to be the most fattening of the lot.

I am pretty sure the convenience of not having to mess around with growing and rolling your own stuff would win out largely.

What about the praticality of fine-tuning spliff size to the desired high?

edited 1st Apr '11 2:07:37 AM by SavageHeathen

Brands would do that particular job. One high the world over, and all that.

That's not the good future for weed.

The good future for weed is small growers operating in a grey market.

Don't push your luck. This is America-we don't take KINDLY to small businesses /spitoon.

If you mean nicotine, then I'm not sure where you got that. It actually decreases appetite.

Prolly why I'm so skinny.

Business aside, what about pot-smokers growning their own weed?

I have but to walk into a Walmart to see prepackaged sandwiches and prepackaged, precooked roast beef meals complete with vegetable sides. Yeah, marketability of the final product is not going to be a concern - people will always pay a little more to save time. That's not to say that home grown and connoisseur weed would die out, any more than home cooking has died out today.

(Also, YAY PONIES!)