Cannabis and Work

Hi!:)
I had a discussion with my dad today. He told me that he knows about 7-8 people who smoke, and claims that none of them have a job and that you are doomed to loose your job if you smoke weed .

Of course I know that all this is bullshit, but I tought that I'd make a poll to find out just about what the percentage is. I smoke myself, and the reason he was having this "moral-speech" to me is that I'm going to Amsterdam next week. But the thing is, he smokes himself... Both because my stepmom told me, and because I found both his weed and hash as late as today. But he doesn't know that I know.:D

So, lets find out how many of you have a job. The reason I made this thread is to prove a point.

I work full time as a supervisor in a restaurant. I am a very heavy smoker, I just make sure not to go in to work all blazed up. The majority of the people I work with smoke pot and do various other things, but no one really cares, as long as you show up on time and do you job correctly and courteously.

The restaurant industry in general has always been a safe haven for pot heads. No restaurant will drug test because they know they'd have to fire 1/2 of their staff!

I run a resource center for people on the Oregon medical Marijuana Program.
Essentially, I am a teacher. I not only use MMJ, it is literally part of my work every day.
I am posting this from work.
And I have one of the house bongs in my other hand.

My SO works too. In a hospital.
She refers patients for Cannabis Therapy all the time.

Im a dog trainer, and you can imagine how smoking helps maintain a good energy and focus with the dogs.....hiring psteve? need a janitor?....lol
whiskeytango

I used to wash dishes but due to bad management I quit. Now that I am unemployed and stoned, I kind of regret it because if I would have stayed long enough and brown nosed good enough, I could of made dishwasher supervisor.

Let's see...I work for a major health system, have a Master's degree, and am a adjunct college professor. I make 6 figures, have 2 beautiful kids and have been married to the same person for 15 years. And I smoke daily.

I'm pretty sure your dad hasn't met me. People are so brainwashed to truly think you can't be a functioning "toker". :jointsmile:

I've smoked since i was 15, i'm 19 now, nearly 20, just finished college in England and i've had a job for a year and a half. You can defintely smoke and hold down a job.

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Originally Posted by dietgurl

Let's see...I work for a major health system, have a Master's degree, and am a adjunct college professor. I make 6 figures, have 2 beautiful kids and have been married to the same person for 15 years. And I smoke daily.

I'm pretty sure your dad hasn't met me. People are so brainwashed to truly think you can't be a functioning "toker". :jointsmile:

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I don't really know if he actually believes this himself, considering he actually smokes himself. Maybe he's just trying to scare me from smoking.

I told him that the absolute majority of smokers have a perfectly normal life, but he wouldn't listen. Hehe, and he has no idea that I know he's smoking.

I use medically on a daily basis.

Special education has a very high "burn out rate". Most aides don't last more than two years. I started working with special ed kids when I was in 6th grade as a student helper. I've done it off and on since then (took time out for my own kids, and my education, etc). I don't burn out and cannabis is one of the main reasons. Teachers fight to get me in their class! I'm THAT good at what I do! The kids introduce me to their parents as "the lady who got me through__grade math". I get lots of hugs. My pay sucks, but I love my job! :thumbsup:

Besides my job, I play FREERICE.COM on a daily basis-10,000 grains every day since before New Years (jumped the gun on my resolution :D ), I do genealogy, I paint, sculpt in wood and clay, am a championship level hand quilter, raise all my own cannabis, give demonstrations at school (a civil war dramatization based on an ancestor's life, and quilting), I dabble at vegetable gardening, herbal medicine, poetry, and meddling in folks' lives on boards like these!

I've used as much as possible for the last 40+ years. Yep- Granny is 60! And if pot were going to make me lazy, it should have done it by now. Have your Dad click the link in my sig to see what 40 years of heavy pot use can do to your motivation, dedication and drive! ;)

Granny:hippy:

Just blaze on up in front of him and say...."Have some it's yours," once he gets all pissed say I was just kidding I didn't even know you had some.

You two should be smoking by the end of the night. LOL