WEED AND LIFE

[Looker]

Y'know I love my weed n all but....it just gets so hard with it out there... so few seem to understand weed ....even to get a job doing anything today you gotta take a drug test...or work with random testing...

So I gotta stop smokin for awhile...y'know a couple of months..I tucked away a couple Z's around ..I just wanna try and hook up with like a corporation or better yet even a government job...

I have a few different sources of income, so this is never really a problem for me..but I get pissed cause you can be shut out of a cool work opportunity just cause you smoke a little weed...I know there's a million ways to beat em but I wonder ...

Any thoughts on this peeps? and how do YOU get around it??

[ermitonto]

My solution, after college, will be to move to a place where you're not judged incompetent because of what you do in your free time. Netherlands, here I come!

[Syrus]

englands not that bad, but you still have to watch your back on the good jobs

[4252]

Hi Looker,

I've got a good job; I run a tool & die shop. And, secretly, I despise my employer for the random testing policy I have to live with. It's a way for the employer and the insurance company to deny their accountability if you get hurt on the job, a method of control and retaliation for those who're frustrated and resentful toward creative, free minded people, and one more way that plodding, cowardly, incompetent morons can feel superior to at least somebody (you know, us depraved drug addicts). Trying to figure out ways to outsmart them has become a more than passing intrest, and I'm resentful for the effort I have to expend in that area as well. I could put the time to better use making switchblades.

The majority of people are herd animals, and if you're too different, you're suspect and something of an outcast. I live by the 11th commandment, per Groucho Marx; "Any club that would have me as a member, I wouldn't want to join". So the people who are in positions of authority would be very insecure about someone who could see through the illusion and realize they're merely good at one thing; pretending they know what they're doing. (In other words, the typical introspective stoner).

I see all this as the price of being different and indulging in a passtime I enjoy so much. Who said it was easy to be unique?

Some things I do are:
Refrain from buying products at places which openly boast about their squeaky clean "no tolerance" attitude such as Wal Mart, Home Depot, etc. Let your money do some of the talking.
Work to change the system legally by voting against hard line anti-marijuana politicians and criticizing hypocritical policies openly.
Being the best example that I can of someone who likes to indulge in moderation without it causing any socially negative effects (always on time to work, never sick or taking time off, doing my job well, causing no inter-personal problems on the job or elsewhere, etc.)
Doing my best to shatter the stereotype images the general public has; I think you get the idea.

I think that if you're employed by a company that's got this anti-fun mentality, there's more at issue than just the recreational drug situation; they want to control what you do even when you're not on the clock, and that's an invasion of privacy of the first order. What will be the next step, telling you what brand of milk you must buy, what religion is acceptable?

A lot of people in my generation fought and died to oppose totalitarianism. This is just another form. Fight the bastards!

I'm looking for an employer who won't try to control my personal life, and it's a major project. Maybe if enough people refuse to sell out for a couple of bucks more on the job, or refuse to work for an employer who's self interest drives them to disregard common sense, they'll get the message some day and back off. Resistance isn't a weekend type of thing, it's a long, unrelenting commitment.

End of diatribe.

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[Rarrr]

well said
im sick of societies close mindedness towards drugs. One day im gonna make several barrels of LSD 25 and then gonna send them into my city's dam :D :D

[Looker]

My thoughts exactly 4252..FIGHT THE POWER

AT LEAST IM NOT ALONE.. :D

[mellowman420]

i found a place where i bus downtown, its a very hard job but i have no prier skill but i make about 15$ an hour. im only 16! its great and they do weed there and there are no drug tests. i saw your profile your over 40!!! how are you looking for a job you should already be pretty settled on your job by now. everyone at my job thinks weed is not a bad think at all. they all great people. maybe you should try to get a job in the restaurant business. don't settle,. find a job that makes you happy. if you can't smoke and work at your job leave and move. i can smoke at my work with friends from work it makes work almost fun.

[Dick Justice]

The best jobs are the jobs with no bosses!

Fuck all that noise, be an artist or a writer or something!

[crystal clear pepsi]

The best jobs are the jobs with no bosses!

Fuck all that noise, be an artist or a writer or something!


F U C K I N - A

[Darkneon420]

I love weed too. And no one is gunna even try thinkin about taken it away from me...>_> ^_^v Peace

oh yeah and about job drug tests fuck them mang, like Dick said be ya own boss (Well god is above yee tho). Good thing my step dad owns a store. Lol and he difinitly doesent have drug tests.

[Looker]

i found a place where i bus downtown, its a very hard job but i have no prier skill but i make about 15$ an hour. im only 16! its great and they do weed there and there are no drug tests. i saw your profile your over 40!!! how are you looking for a job you should already be pretty settled on your job by now. everyone at my job thinks weed is not a bad think at all. they all great people. maybe you should try to get a job in the restaurant business. don't settle,. find a job that makes you happy. if you can't smoke and work at your job leave and move. i can smoke at my work with friends from work it makes work almost fun.

Yes I am over 40 and I have multiple incomes already (have my own business)but occaisionally I will come across a real great job but they drug test or random test.. I always beat them(drug tests) but I guess I was just making a broader statement about how corporate America appears to targeting pot smokers specifically..

(OH BTW KID UP IN BUFFALO..ITS GREAT UNTIL YOU HAVE TO LEAVE THAT JOB OR GET LAID OFF..EVER HEARD OF THAT??)

[Looker]

Thanks BTW ...you all have unique insights into this regardless of your ages and backgrounds..cool... :cool:

[GHoSToKeR]

not many places over here drug test.. its sweet

[robert42]

fight the fight looker

shit on ppls door steps thats a good way to protest :D

[Looker]

OH YOU MEAN LIKE THIS???

[robert42]

YEA LIKE THAT :D

[4252]

Being an artist or a writer is all well and good; I had a graphic arts business for about 10 years and nearly drove myself to insanity. Anybody who can make a success of it, you have my admiration. But the majority of people don't have as many options, and to be honest, working for a stable company that pays well and has a nifty benefits package has its advantages. So I do what I do, and grumble & scheme a lot. And plot.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that for the average joe, working for somebody else is more or less typical, and that, like nazi Germany in the 30's, we're experiencing a period of diminished tolerance and an increasing loss of rights. If we let it happen, the next generation will have even fewer options, and a harder time doing what they need to do. Not to mention our own futures. I think we owe it to ourselves and to each other to do whatever we can, as individuals, to change the world we live in, at least to the extent that we can get out of our skulls occasionally without fear of our lives being ruined.

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