How Cannabis Legalization Is Changing The Workplace
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2021
- As the country's support for marijuana legalization grows, some employers are now looking at the once-taboo subject of weed and work differently. NBC News' Vaughn Hillyard reports.
Editor's Note: This story should have credited reporting on the subject by Krithika Varagur at The Wall Street Journal.
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#Cannabis #Marijuana #Legalization
It’s crazy how we have people serving time in prison while this is a multi billion dollar industry
America!!!
I mean yeah but they still broke the law at the time. And even though some of them are in just for weed a lot sold or bought other illegal drugs that are definitely not legal now. So they still deserve time. Maybe a reduced time for weed but because some literally get years for it. But again they knew the risks in the first place.
Nobody is in prison for smoking weed shut up
Thanks Biden
Don‘t worry, they‘re not good people.
The vending machines at work seems to always be running out of snacks.
Good one....Lol.
Especially the Cheetos lol
🤣
😂
Taco bell shortage . Dman munchies
Imagine watching the news right now while on your 5th year in prison… They should’ve never been incarcerated in the first place.
You forgot to add the part about being a POC
Nobody should be in jail for drugs.
Exactly
Vaping is ten billion times more unhealthy, but that is ok
It’s ridiculous
@@Cacowninja they should be if they sold drugs to kids.
But thats about it
It was called the war on drugs to lock up as many black men as possible and it worked. Now the ones who locked them up are getting rich off cannabis stocks. And probably have their own cannabis dispensaries including police, judges and their grandmother's.
I'd just like to say it again
Making weed legal doesn't mean everyone will start smoking it, a vast substrata of population still won't, it's the same as alcohol not everyone drinks even though it's legal
funny you say that cause when it became legal I somehow instantly quit, just wasn't fun anymore i guess cause it's so normalized? no idea but i lost complete interest once everyone was talking about it for some reason
Yea but corporate lobbyists are putting money in politicians and experts hands .
Lies again? Cell Nitro
I would say that people are actually less likely to consume a substance once it becomes legalized.
I think this is partially because of what the person above said, but also because people will begin to have more information on the effects of the substance. For example, if a drug is illegal, people are less informed about what it does. All they know is that it is illegal. Whereas, if a drug is legal, people know more about it. The public is more educated. I don't think this is necessarily the case for weed, but it is for most other drugs.
@@CodCats That would be the questioning of it, why is it illegal or wrong. This has happen before in the past. When the government started to put perinatal adversary on music artist thought it would diminish their sells, which had the opposite effect it made more sells.
You could have made it 8 seconds longer. There's no way you missed that opportunity
Even better if it was 9 seconds longer. Put the bong down dude.
@@Belvedere1981 the video is 4 minutes 12 seconds long. 8 + 12 is 20 which would be 4.20 so Greg is right. 9 would be 4.21 which is not weed day
Fun fact Hiter was born 4-20-1889
@@Belvedere1981 ur mad about weed for what?
@@sinxsideways5900 I don't know about him, but it sets off my asthma in a way cigarette smoke doesn't. Since legalization, which I wasn't against, I have to be hit with a wall of that scent in the supermarket, Walmart, even if I'm driving down the road and am behind a car where people are smoking it. I hadn't anticipated that effect.
I never understood why employers don't care if a worker goes home and drinks a handle of vodka every night, but god forbid they smoke half a joint to help them fall asleep.
Uh yes, I'd like to buy two marijuana drugs please.
Depending on the industry, I think its not necessarily the idea of how a person becomes intoxicated, but if they are willing to do illegal things for personal desire. If you're willing to go to jail for a high, you may be willing to steal from the register to get the high type idea. principles.
Insurance purposes. Thats the only reason really.
Conditioning from a young age. Same as today.
@@robxsiq7744 Wow not even close your a strange being. In most states its legal so only the ones in illegal states are cash register thieves now? Old school beliefs are being shattered everyday your opinion isn't even that valid anyway.
I do not hire companies to do home repairs who have pot heads worling for them.
Rules should be clear cut. They are really simple: Do not consume cannabis or derivatives in work places (unless prescribed), Cannabis and its derivatives are to be consumed on your own time, Be safe and place the safety of others in very high regard - don't use cannabis or any other substance while driving.
Pretty simple, why all the commotion over this plant that millions probably won't ever consume in their lifetime legal or illegal? - nonetheless, it is simply one experience of limitless on this planet. Just legalize it, be done with it, give people the personal freedom to dictate and tailor their personal experiences in this pitifully short life we balance as singular individuals and share together as a community of peoples.
Peace and Love.
Well said
Do you believe in Vaccine Mandates?
Spot on. Thanks.
Stupidity at its finest. Smoking and driving won’t cause an accidents. There’s absolutely no proof it ever has. All it makes u do is pay better attention because u know you’re lit and you will in turn maybe drive slower. Don’t spread propaganda cause people are being sued for this exact lie
@@thewholecountryislaughinga8440 yea bro but try passing that in the court of law … it’s just not going to happen so I’ll be fine with weed being legal period
Alcohol is what’s dangerous.
Saw news awhile back if u get stopped by police and been smoking they can treat or do treat as if u been drinking cause i guess it impairs ur driving some how and can bust at time if they see something is wrong and u not able drive right at time.
@🔥Feed the Fire🔥 Fine, take a hit from "marijuana", and try to do something remotely dangerous. Don't worry I will wait.
@🔥Feed the Fire🔥 no death rates on Marijuana
As long we see Snoop Dogg is alive since he can smoke more joints
Willie Nelson, or even Cheech and Chong
@🔥Feed the Fire🔥 Marijuana is one of the safest recreational drugs out there, and thats a fact. Very very rare if not ever will someone show life threatening problems because of it. But roughly 2 Million [Give or take] people die a year due to alcohol. You decide which one is worse
I'd rather hire someone who smokes Marijuana to get high every day than someone who drinks to get drunk everyday. The person who drinks will be hungover, slow and basically non prroductive. They will have many health issues and probably not last long at the job. The Marijuana smoker will have no hangovers and will most likely be more healthy even if they have some sort of disability or mobility issue. They definitely eat better than an alcoholic. They mostly likely will select a job they are happy with. They may even be more creative and productive because they want to be there . Marijuana smokers are generally happy people especially if they are in a workplace that accepts their lifestyle. Most times people can't even tell when someone has been smoking Marijuana but the smell is usually a tip off.
The above is based on my own experience in supervision of staff up to seven employees. If I knew a staff member was a smoker then my only issue and rule was they do not drive or operate heavy machinery. I knew several of our staff had pain related health issues. I left it up to them to be honest and they were. They were on time to work and rarely missed days. I notice also that at lunch time there was fun socializing and sharing of food which help the team bond. The drinkers, on the other hand, we're not as friendly with other staff and never ate lunches. They always seemed in crisis mode. They missed more days and had more social and family issues outside of the workplace.
These are my observations of over 10 years of being a supervisor.
Drug testing pot is like pulling beer cans from my trash and deciding I am currently drunk and am so at all times. It's far from fair.
That’s the best way to describe it
I’m not gonna lie. I be high at work 😂
@@zeeknunez5616 I’m in the high paying segment of the corporate world. Tons of cocaine use pillz on the job and booze. No drug test in site. It’s said but most drug testing was done when I was working lower paying jobs. I’m drug free but I don’t judge another man’s vice just handle your business
@@Ha-th3sb I know it I work in an office tons of drug use
@@zeeknunez5616 High af boy 😂
What I don’t understand is having a cdl I can drink 5 beers after work and still be under the legal limit when I return to work 8 hrs later. But smoke a joint and I loose my cdl/job. Both scenarios I’m sober when I go to work.
"Ban smoking. btw here's a replacement."
Getting some mixed signals here.
You know you can consume marijuana but yeah the video shows people who just smoke it. Smoking marijuana is very unhealthy (not because of thr weed but because of the smoke).
@@formerunsecretarygeneralba9536 that's bs
@@knight1506 exept its true ?
@@formerunsecretarygeneralba9536 incorrect
@@knight1506 wow such constructive arguments. My oh my, we have the nest genius. Tell me, my good sir, how does it feel to be this dumb.
A few years back(1989), I was in court for a DWI. The case before mine was a DUI/marijuana. The defendant pled guilty. When asked if there were any considerations before sentencing, the defendant said, "Your Honor, if I drink 6 beers, I'll probably wreck my truck. But if I smoke a joint, the only thing I'm gonna wreck is the refrigerator." The courtroom erupted in laughter. The defendant got probation.
😂😂😂lmao I love this because it's so true
😂😂😂
Ok, that's hilarious! lmfao! Also you started the story with "A few years back (1989)" that made me crack up because that's the year I was born... I'm friggin 32! My back and knees are beginning to hurt!
r/thatreallyhappened
@@treefiddytwoo for real, for real.
So how about releasing so many of our citizens from prisons for BS drug charges
Right! Pharma is the biggest drug dealers.. So many strung out behind they legal drugs and done destroyed so many lives..
@@ladynina3547 Aint gonna happen. Companies gettin rich off drugs. From jails to methadone programs... its sick.
@@ladynina3547 You do realize the only way those drugs make it to the shelves is the FDA, right? Big Pharma makes them, but a drug isn’t going anywhere if the FDA doesn’t let it. So if you have that big of a problem with the pharmaceutical industry, take that criticism to the FDA.
@@cjones3710 That part💯 facts
@Spiderman agreed one started a kitchen fire forgot he turned off the burner, another forgot to put the e brake on his car, and rolled back down the hill. Smashed thru a cynder block Wall at Amaco sevice shop. They were open for business. Mechanics under cars inside... bc a weed head eanted to toke up and drive. Coulnt wait... admitted hes always high. Both could.be fatal to children and adults.. in those communities....Sinful dellusions, weed is not that bad, mixing it alcohol can be fatal. The scariest part is having no idea what one is inhalling. The gateway drug, minmizing all others. For weak minded who cant cope like a reaponsible adult.
Free all the weed smokers...smoking IS NOT A CRIME
The more frequently you partake, the less it affects you.
I've been a cannabis patient in California for many years now.
Going from opioids to management of endocannabinoids was the best thing I ever did for myself.
I no longer messing with my opioid receptors and now only the cannabinoid receptors.
Moving away from cannabis use is not a serious withdrawal. It's the same as using sugar, coffee, or tea daily and somebody taking it away from you.. Yes it does cause a craving because you're endocannabinoid system recesses because you are inducing the cannabinoids.
It's kind of like taking over your breathing to control it consciously rather than subconsciously.
The cravings go away once your body starts producing endocannabinoids on it's own.
Remember: Being illegal and a schedule 1 are the sole reasons for it to be dangerous.
Caffiene is a much worse withdrawal.
My head throbs when i dont get enough. Its sad, really.
a cannabis patient lol
@@alainportant6412 I was. You found something I posted 2 years ago congratulations! I still use (vape) cannabis and no, I don't need a prescription for it anymore.
Wow. Making weed selling look cute af. Few years ago Dante got put in the back of a cop car. Now Becky rolling joints at work. Amazing
Just more proof it's All bs!! Just like, "hey, increase your credit score by having a Netflix or Amazon acct" 😭 ..things like this just show it's all bs! They make the $hit up as they go!
Exactly
Stfu and get wit the flow stop being so stuck on the past
Yeah man, because white people weren't smoking until now, you're correct.
They are always able to do that crap. It's cute when they do edgy things like smoking weed.
Now release everyone who got charge for marijuana possession!
@Jose Hernandez 🤣🤣🤣
Nah, it was a crime then and they knew they were committing it, so they do their time. Maybe reduce sentences though.
@@ChiknThighTatorPie So why was it illegal to do it in the first place if now everyone's legalizing it
@@ChiknThighTatorPie you are one of those idiots that think laws are always correct and everyone should do time for stupid laws. Just because the government told your sheep little brain.
You must love paying tax to keep people who commited a "crime" so small that it's no longer a crime to do it. You must really hate the world to actually believe in what you just said.
@@thekharijones It doesn't matter. The law ultimately isn't a measuring stick of what's right or wrong but rather what is legal and illegal. If it was, lots of things would be illegal. I didn't make the rules though.
Believe it or not, some people actually feel like they're getting more work done when they use cannabis, it also helps people destress. And just like the lady said, it's better than going out and getting some drinks and coming in hungover the next day.
You're absolutely right!
Today is my 59th birthday! I just lost my job of 3 years because of a positive THC drug test. (In Blue Ridge GA) The person who I served is disabled and now deprived of my service. (I never used while working) I have Glaucoma and PTSD and Pot helps better than anything else I've tried.... Plus I like how it makes me feel. I am now without a job.... and this sucks. I am heart-broken for my friend that I served. I love and miss him, and my fellow co-workers.
I'm so sorry that happened to you. My employer just wrote it off when I failed my drug test for the same thing. I smoke for my chronic pain at home and she was like "oh I don't care about a little weed". Weed isn't even legal in my state I just get it legally by driving to Massachusetts
@@littlebear3554I like Northeast alternatives in seekonk myself 😊
I’m 35, smoked since I was 16. Decided to quit and then boom. It’s legal 🤦🏽.
But aside from that. It’s deeply disturbing that these multi million dollar weed profiting corporations are doing nothing to reverse charges for millions of ppl in jail for this harmless plant.
@et de stellis let’s also force them to invest in policy changes and criminal reform. Me personally I would still get my bud from my bro’s from the corner. I’m not supporting these corps til they do right by the ppl.
The justice system and lawmakers can do something about that, the cannabis industry has no power to legislate or commute prison sentences.
@@mr.dragoncrypto4138 they can advocate and lobby!
@@Phillyhippie215 You don't think they do that? Why not just admit your comment was wrong? You already admitted you have no clue as to how things work, don't try to save face just admit you were wrong. Learn from your mistakes and grow from it.
@@mr.dragoncrypto4138 ok mom 🙄
Ive been sober off meth an heroin, going on 3years. I smoke weed daily no cravings or even ambitions to even get back into the dope game. But here iam working a 9-5 an being productive an improving my life to never go back to dope again. Me an my whole family have 2+ years off the dope game.
You just traded one drug for another my man...
@@PandaCheeks ur right he did lol...
@@PandaCheeks okay? And hundreds of millions of people take prescriptions on a daily basis some being hooked on opiates and benzodiazepines
Congrats I hope all is well
@@ecvande2859 still doesn’t justify , if you’re gonna be sober you don’t take any mind altering substances , which includes alcohol, caffeine, nicotine and now weed
I haven’t smoked in years but tbh the gym has been a better stress reliever than anything else
Everyone in jail for this, should be freed. ALSO: there's a need for reflection on why it was originally made illegal in the first place...smh. Makes me very uneasy the cognitive dissonance over this issue. Quite disgusting...
Ah, maybe because it's a drug
@@aboutraore6754 clearly you miss the point. Go back into the US archives on why it was originally made illegal. Inform yourself.
@@bebechocolateinbarcelona-a5034 of course criminal want every drug legalize
@@aboutraore6754 No my love, ages ago it WAS legal. That's why I said do some research. It became illegal to hem people up. A president is actually on tape making the statement. PLUS other mind altering substances are ok for all due to economic reasons. Economic reasons are why weed is coming back into favor.
@@aboutraore6754 study history, don't be ignorant
Crazy how so many of my brothers are sitting in prison and labeled as bumz for doing this exact same thing. The cop's do pull up on you if they think you are smoking weed. Use that excuse to cause an altercation. That normally lands our brothers in prison. So much non sense in the comment section. You can easily point out those that have had a privilege life... Ever stood on a block smoking a black n mild and cops pull up on you just to ask what you're smoking. If not you're a lucky 1. Be Grateful 🙏
Exactly
Well yeah fam they call drugs a health problem when they look at white users, but they call us animals and criminals for doing drugs
Crazy how you know what not to do and do it anyway and call racism because you can't comprehend the laws.
You have to wait until something is legal in your state before doing it.
@@smokedout7129 crazy how your stupidity is showing
You sayin brothers like its not women as well
Let's just pretend for a moment that instead of young people at a board meeting smoking Pot, there were CEOs and high profile politicians with Coke and Hookers. Thankfully, that has NEVER happened.
Politicians out here smoking crack bro
@@Abc1234xxx that’s the point. He’s being sarcastic.
Best comment. Boardroom ain't bored room.
Lol
So legalize hookers and coke then ?
It feels like we live in the 50s…. And everyone does a lobby for smoking cigarettes.
Kinda awkward.
@kein name so true buddy
@kein name I get your point, but then Netherlands would be the paradise of stupidity, right? And yes, lots of things are wrong with America. Not that Europe and Asia are perfect, of course.
My employees are all pot heads, the worst staff I've ever had.
We had this in the 80s...it was called "guitar shops".
Please explain, im curious to what you mean lol
Same
Troy do you remember when bands like Metallica or Megadeth or Ozzy would do a midnight release of their ne album and the record shops would open at midnight and little rocker kids would get the new cassette tape and everyone would be partying and listening to the new music in the parkin lot most of the night? Just curious if that's just me and where I grew up lol.
@@michaelriley8002 sounds awesome
@@michaelriley8002 Yeah, we had a few local indie shops that did that in my state, but my town at the time was mostly corporate record shops like Camelot (Ssssh, it's only a model) and Record Bar.
But I didn't work at Record & Tape shops, I worked in Instrument Retail. Most of that time was a Fender/Music Man and Ibanez/Tama dealership.
... meanwhile black people who sold the grass is still in jail.
Never forget that ol chuck Schumer has been dragging his feet and copy & paste tweeting all year... the president and vise president claimed to be too busy to do anything about this issue but both managed to find time to come to California to campaign for Gavin Newsom in that pointless recall election.... and all the while more than half the country already has some form of legal marijuana... dating back to 1996!!!
Theres ppl.of all races behind bars for weed. Stop gas lighting.
@Jon Doe And minority neighbourhoods are also rife with drugs, shootings and gang crime. I wonder why police are more on edge... Beats me.
@@rippvanwinklestein2126 tell that to Kamala
@@Cotac_Rastic then they shouldn't be cops.
I remember when they first legalized marijuana for recreational use in California our supervisor had a meeting saying they would no longer drug test for it. One of my coworkers asked what does that mean? So I said that means we can smoke on our breaks... my supervisor was like nooooooo!
😂😂😂😂
If they can’t test for it anymore, they’d have no way to prove whether you were high on the job or not.
@@Simple_Worship_Guitar I think they can still test for it just like alcohol. It’s still an insurance liability to have employees under the influence lol. Some people can’t handle their high
@@Simple_Worship_Guitar welllll. If your actions are way off you can still get drug tested.
I smoked as regularly as I could from age 16 to 30, then I stopped for thirty-three years Because I felt it affected my ability to be on-point and less productive towards meeting my career goals, and being illegal it could also affect those goals if I were to be arrested. Now I'm in my mid-sixties, live in a legal state, and started smoking it again, but only on Friday and Saturday nights. I find that There is a hangover affect that affects my ability to be on-point, and I still work. I don't plan on increasing my usage when I retire. For me it's like a glass of wine, but since I've never enjoyed drinking alcohol, cannabis takes it's place and is much better as it let's my mind wander, which is a big plus, as my job requires me to be very focused and it's not easy to get out of that mindset easily.
Finally someone with sense and actually being honest and telling the good and the bad I said the same thing pat there is a weed hangover and it affects your mornings and good luck on the fri-sat only sesh I’ve tried that then it became a 7 days out the week sesh
Hey bro you need Sativa cannabis strains to keep your focus ☦️☦️☦️
I smoked from age 18-31 and quit as well, the only person who can really make a habitual weed smoker quit is themselves. It’s a dark rabbit hole of being content with doing nothing
Do you want your pilots driving high?
And the rapid rise of seizures /strokes/clots in weed legal states for the 18 to 30yr age group . Some studies show a 38% rise. the thc gets stored in the brain cholesterol intended to be used for stressful situations . Weed smokers are generally not good under stress .
Fun fact: Those competing in the first skateboard event at the Olympics were mostly teen skaters no one knows, because most pro skaters couldn't pass the weed drug screening.
Ha, now I understand why they sent a 12 year old to compete at the Olympics
Probably the same reason the NBA isn't testing anymore. LOL!
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That's hilarious
I know of an olympic shooter who qualified while a smoker, but wasn't near as good once he was able to pass pot screening.
Although I was getting drunk with friends for New Years, I missed a whole smoke out party with my coworkers, one person gave two homemade edibles to everyone, one girl and her bf smoked a bunch of backwoods and others rolled blunts
Both major political parties in the United States should be ashamed that Weed is illegal!
Imagine a black owned business sitting around the conference table rolling joints. The whole building would be surrounded by all levels of law enforcement.
Yep, the double standard continues. How great it to be white. Smh
They would be considered a gang
Imagine we don’t have a negative comment like this on a POSITIVE video 🙄🙄🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️.
@@samanthabraddy4422 imagine lives ruined in jail for doing the same thing these people are doing at work.
@@samanthabraddy4422 imagine there wasn't any negativity for them to tell you about
You 🤡
Free everyone locked up rn for marijuana charges - and y’all missed the opportunity to make this video 4 mins 20 seconds long
Lol FR ... they only needed to run it 8 more secs
ban police
Why do you want to make it hitlers birthday
They don’t care Lmao
@Dontbelievethefakenews he didn’t say they didn’t and he’s obviously saying it shouldn’t be a law
What shocks me as a European is that most Americans were more willing to support the legalisation of pot, as opposed to essentials like universal healthcare. Priorities people 😅
As an American, it's much easier right now to pass legalization of rec weed than changing how our universal health care is. We get that our healthcare is pretty bad compared to other countries.
They're going to need the healthcare after all that dope. 😂
"no other industry growing like cannabis industry"
gaming industry laughing from light years away
We have been 7 years sober from alcohol that was killing my husband. Now he is a grower and living our best life💚💚💚💚💚💚
i have 11 years free from alcohol...and i truly appreciate cannabis.
The route I’m going. I want my own dispensary.
Congratulations
Live the dream,,stay cannabis happy it's the future,,congratulations good shit..2 thumbs up👍👍
He just traded one master for another. 100% sobriety or life isn't worth living.
So glad that I had a hand in getting Marijuana legalized ! Anyone remember the " Smoke In " in Springfield Illinois in 78 and 79 ?? I spent over 5 years in prison for pot! Been smoking for over 50 years !
Your mother must be so proud.
@@maggiejohnson5891 There’s always someone that has to take a nice comment and come back with the smart A$$ comment you just left. In defense for the person that did write that, I’m personally calling you out for being the rude person you are. You just had to leave a nasty comment! People like you don’t belong on social media at all! I’m sure you’ll come with a hateful comment because that’s who you are. But your blocked on my end MJ. Be a nicer person for all people as it may rub off on you! That’s my hope! Jus sayin
This guy served hard time in support of legalization, and his time served paid off for all of us. How low it is to bring a man's mom into the comment section 😬
A mother would be proud of someone advocating for change and seeing the sacrifice he made for the greater good of pot legalization.
FREEDOM!
I've smoked weed for nearly half my life. Just turned 51, got my CDL to drive trucks and now I'm an alcoholic.
Don’t understand why commercial drivers can’t smoke weed. Someone needs to change this law .
Pro smokers are more productive on grass. Light weights just turn into silly chuckle heads.
Truth!!
FACTS‼️
Pro smokers just think they are more productive when high due to withdrawl symptoms
@@Jfxkxdvrvr put me against any of ya workers lmao you keep munching on that Molly ya hear!
Facts
We need freedom to grow your own.
Move to South Africa
It's not hard to do the hardest part is having the space to do it and once you start buying space and materials you are in a business already so may as well scale up to produce product. It's a great way to fund your real estate acquisitions as long as those are all laundered cash, still no banks for weed.
Creator blessed me with seeds!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The US legalized Cannabis Sativa to win World War II.
Watch the 1942 USDA film, *Hemp For Victory.*
There was a bill in Congress titled the *Hemp For Victory Act of 2019.*
Here in Canada. Your allowed a few plants per person. … In your home.
I read the title as "How cannibals are changing workplaces"
My definition of team building is avoidance of my manager
The beginning story is just mind-boggling to me. The US needs to release/expunge all those who were locked up for carrying/using Weed.
Yes. Definitely!
Ikr, it makes no sense for them to be locked up 🤷🏻♀️
You want every city to turn into Chicago south side?
Ask you repsentives to vote for the MORE ACT
I got arrested for public intox about 15 years ago. I spent about 4 hours in jail. Because I had a legal medical marijuana card, when they let me out they had to return my pre-loaded pipe and some weed. While I was in there, I talked to another guy who was arrested for having weed, and I believe he was stuck there for about a week.
We don't have a "justice system", it's just a secondary tax collection service.
It's crazy how this could easily land you in jail in other countries.
Other states
It landed many black Americans' in jail and now after doing many years some are being released and getting their records expunged 🤔
It still can in other states.
An estimated 40000 people today are incarcerated for marijuana offenses even as: the overall legal cannabis industry is booming.
@@POOKATKC yep.. Kamala Harris put many of them there.
The fact some laws don't change with other laws for the same thing is completely insane.
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If you can't wait until the work day is done to get high then you have a problem. Most businesses won't allow consumption of alcohol on the job so I see nothing wrong with prohibiting weed at work too.
@WEBSPORES ON INSTAGRAM KEEP IT AT HOME!
What you do on your own time is your business.
But when you are at work you are on my time. I give one warning for the first offense. I catch you getting high a second time YOU'RE FIRED!
That is my official policy on weed at work.
Considering how many black men and women whom have been crushed by drug enforcement laws on cannabis this segment is a disgusting display the bias of culture
FACTS
The sad thing is that a lot of WHITE men and women have been crushed by the same laws. Unfortunately, in this day and age ("it's always whiteys fault") For some reason the media fails to tell you that.
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Ya because it was illegal and they made their only income you need to come to the times illegal was illegal
@@curtisendicott5989 what?!
As someone who has 32 employees from around the US (Web Development), I feel that its none of my business what any of them do after work. Only time that I restrict its use is during each workday, while on an assignment or completing tasks.
Wow. 32 employees. Awesome
More growth and progress to you, well done, and Thank you for your contribution to the betterment of other peoples livelihoods
Uh, huh. And I bet you think you're magnanimously allowing your employees to live their lives as they see fit. But here's the real story: You are NOT entitled to limit your work-from-home employees' conduct while they are IN THEIR OWN HOME.
Drink that in. Hopefully you still have a business LEFT by the time you do.
@@katiedonovanAlt someone was a bit triggered sheesh. smoke in your own time. As long as work is done and in standard. Don't make a hissy fit
@@atsuyak768 ALL the time I am alive IS "my own time."
Amazing one of the little people thinks that, huh?
I wonder what ELSE we will dare to expect next....
Just you wait.
First time weed smoker here. I used to hate weed, I even hated everyone who smoked it. Some time went by, and I sort of had a change of heart, but not really. I decided to try some, to see what it was like. I lit that joint up, and I hated the taste at first. But I kept going, determined to get high. Around halfway through the .5 joint, I started feeling like I was floating, it was amazing. I finished the whole thing 5 minutes later, and I was zooted. I liked it, since then my view on weed has changed. And I think these politicians need to change their view too.
How can this drug be good when most users end up losing their minds? I smoked for 7 years and stopped. I realized I could not sleep or eat or concentrate without it. It is bad for you guys.
“Marijuana illegal but cigarettes cool. I might look kinda funny but I ain’t no fool”
~Andre 3000~
One kills brains cells and is a gateway drug, wow think
@@AnonymousanonymousA marijuana kills the dead brain cells and rebuild new ones. While tobacco kills brain cells makes people addicted dumb
@@AnonymousanonymousA gateway to good Food, Netflix and then Sleep like a king
@@tatendazuze other drugs and becoming someone who will sell their everything for another fix broken down, and less alert etc.
@@AnonymousanonymousA you sound like the typical person who's never smoked and goes around judging smokers. of all the stoners I know which there's probably 100s of I can only think of one who bridged to another drug and that's my cousin who bridged to cocaine. the only influence there was the people he grew up with, weed has never been a gateway drug it's the people you choose to surround yourself with that are the gateway, and not just to drugs only.
People are acting like weed smoking is just now becoming popular. No, it's just now becoming mainstream. It was always insanely popular
its crazy how much of us did this before legalization LOL
imagine being a basketball playing and no longer having to worry about that bs.
I am a OTR truck driver. I have not smoked since i started driving about 17 years ago. Sooo when I get home i drink when I would much rather smoke some MJ. If my company and the feds think its ok if i drink on my off time why cant I light up?
I refuse any job that gives UA’s. It’s a violation of my privacy and my freedom. I don’t make as much as you truck drivers but at least, I’m free.
Right! drinking is worst!!
@@whiterage1917 drivers don't make sh't per hour. 70 hour work weeks with no time and a half. It is expensive to live on the road. I drove for a while. Just used fake pee, but it wasn't worth it.
what you should really ask is why you still accept a fed that has lied to you your whole life
Yeah that’s why I absolutely refuse to drive using that license. And ever since I made that decision I have found way better jobs and been smoking more than I did in high school.
Cool, but there's definitely a lack of darker toned people in this "fun" segment. I wonder if this changing society will also support decriminalization of possession of small amounts of cannabis for personal use AND releasing all individuals previously incarcerated on such charges?
Exactly what I was thinking... Funny how these guys get to smoke at work while it's still largely illegal for ppl of color.
Exactly...it's called white privilege! It those where Mexicans with a company like that they would all be arrested!
I swear!!!
Of course it’s ridiculous no one should be in jail or prison over weed man.
Preachhhh
The art of rolling a good joint is found in The Netherlands. It would be awsome showing you how to roll to get the feel for it.
He was high during the interview lol!
I’m guessing several jobs are only tolerable if stoned, so it makes sense for those employers to waive the screening requirement. Right Amazon?
@Sheila Wilson I bet you’re a great follower. Rules are made for people like you. Soon, the entire world will be a paradise for classroom monitors, like you.
Yes you are right, I allow everyone to smoke marijuana on their breaks because it helps with employee moral, and they all seem to be happier and get along better while performing their assigned tasks.
@Butt Head I’m neither for or against pot. Your choice. But I am against crony capitalism. The system owns the masses. This “NBC” report is just another narrative pushed story that supports cronyism.
Smoke the marijuana and get high, be your own boss.... One life you got to live.....
Let's have stoned bus drivers, doctors, pilots and politicians and everything will be better!
They come in drunk. Drinking on the job is easier than smoking so alcohol is heavily abused on jobs from employee all the way to ceo levels
@Super Mario SMH. Stop defending your actions. It’s still easier to drink. It does smell. It’s just not a lingering odor
Smoking is bad all the way
"Alcohol is worse" is like every pot heads excuse for checking out of life.
@@francismarion4450 no silly. It’s a fact drunkard
I don't drink or do drugs anymore. 100% sober.
No problem if my coworkers want to meet up after work to drink at the bar so they can drive home themselves, but god forbid I smoke a bowl on my own time.
Yeah I already hate dealing with stoned workers and I take business elsewhere. One stoned waitress was like, "you need a refill right?" me, "You already took my cup for a refill."
😅 people are ridiculous.
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Where do I sign up?
The future of the USA is unknown seriously
I'd say its pretty obvious where we're headed, and it's nowhere good.
@@seraphim95 It will settle down once boomers are out of the way.
@@JohnM-sw4sc Poor thing, your way of thinking is dieing off. Oh, I feel so bad for you. Do you need a safe place?
@@meoff7602 That’s the American way, blaming everything on everyone except yourself. Boomers aren’t the only problem here, and people of the other generations have to take responsibility. After all, the future generations are pretty unprepared and oblivious, so I’m not sure if they’ve got much going for them.
@@JohnM-sw4sc Safe spaces are a new phenomenon? lol Back in the 50s paranoid parents of their teenage Elvis fan kids wanted a safe space because they thought he was "devil music", and in the 70s and 80s parents the same thing happened with metal music, and then in the 90s the same thing happened with rap music. Back in the days of Galileo, the Catholic Church wanted a safe space so they put him under house arrest for promoting heliocentrism. The term safe space is just another word for insecurity, which has existed for thousands of years.
Yet there are thousands of minorites still in jail for possession and here you have trust fund kids smoking on tv. 😂
Not many people go to prison for simple possession
@@timothymiddleton6651 do your research and then come back
@@timothymiddleton6651 ummm okay buddy 😐
@@timothymiddleton6651 Simply not a true statement.
Those weren’t trust fund kids by any stretch of the imagination. Those were a couple of adults that work for a cannabis PR company🙄
Exact the same retoric when when everyone said cigarettes was health. Cannabis is a posion. USA is the posion of the world.
The tobaco industry said the samething as she said with the finacial gain.
Im 12 days away from being a year sober lets goooo
I’m proud of you 🥳🥳🥳
@@amberd2857 Thank you😁
As much as of a pothead as I am. I rather not have my surgeon be high at work, so im ok with certian jobs banning that stuff *in the work place*. But you should be free to do w/e the heck you want outside work.
Since when does legalization mean being high all the time ? Alcohol is legal and a surgeon can’t be drunk, it’s literally the same thing so stop with the unnecessary hypotheticals and legalize it already.
would you prefer your surgeon high or drunk?
Weed better than alcohol any day. True some careers don't mix w weed at work. Alcohol kills in a long brutal way. Like tobacco.
@@dorisfaust8965 So smoking weed isn't damaging the lungs just as tobacco can ?
Make sense.
@@owenmclain3327 nope you can eat THC.DRINK IT.
I agree that weed isn't a big deal and should be legalized, but I wouldn't be comfortable smoking weed with my co-workers, just as much as I'm uncomfortable drinking booze with my co-workers. I want to maintain some boundaries in the workplace, I don't want to feel too relaxed around my co-workers, and, especially, my supervisors.
It tends to free my speech and facetious is my middle name, I likely wouldn't be employed by lunch.
When I was younger my co workers and I would smoke together during every shift, I can't imagine doing that now. Weed definitely affects my performance
Never compare cannabis to alcohol because they're not the same. Totally different
Depends on the people and the place, but weed usually allows me to work in a more efficient way and gives me better ideas along the way. Weed actually makes me realize I can’t relax because there’s work to be done 🤣 But I’ve smoked with people and they just couch lock so it does depend on the person and what they really want to do.
@@MrKrabs-tr5rh yep! I'm like you are. I can get so much stuff done! Lol.. It helps me to concentrate and focus and stay on task. Everybody is in The stereotype that it couch locks you. Not true! I've been smoking since I was 14 I am now 45. 😉
You know I work in a retirement home... and we had two employees who use to come to work high...
Now I don't mind what you do in your own time smoke, be high, be stoned.
Smoke at night but coming to work high that too in Retirement home, where you gotta care for elderly.
Thats were I drew the line.
And that is something our company struggled with when I reported it.
They said it is legal now so we can't write em up, in reply I said it is same as coming to work drunk... i don't care if you drink in your own time but coming to work drunk is not acceptable and same goes for marijuana use. However, our HR told me that it is their life and I should say anything coz they can sue the company.
I was hired and told that a medical marijuana prescription does not supersede the federal law, so it’s still illegal!
>Represents 60 cannabis industry businesses
>Hires people that never rolled a joint in their life
Smokers aren't the only people cannabis companies are going after. Non-smokers are potential customers and having that perspective on the team could definitely be a good thing.
Good observation I missed that one
It's not that weird actually. She's a junior accountant executive if I remember correctly from the video. If you're a business, you'd want to hire the best accountant available, not just look for accountants who are experienced weed smokers. The company might've just hired her because they think she's good at her job, but it also happens that she doesn't smoke weed too often.
Let truck drivers smoke on their time off and you’ll see the driver shortage disappear.
What a load of crap has everything to do with paying too much time away from home .
That would make it even worse. The trucking workforce would disappear completely. 😂
You are stupid. If they let more drivers smoke more drivers that dont drive because of laws would be able to drive. Grow a brain cell.
The hawk. Aka the shill.
Maybe a cigarette enthusiast? Get cancer and go bye bye make space for someone else .
I got fired for using my medical marijuana at work so how does that work
Why would it matter if a truck driver smokes weed?
In moderation it’s OK, the history behind and issues caused by alcohol abuse make cannabis look like a saint
Nothing quite like the comment section on a weed video. You can say the sky is blue and someone will argue about something you NEVER said
Heavy weed smokers tend to constantly pretend everyone else is wrong
@@WolverineXOXO I think the same as with all common street drugs. None were ever taken out of the mix no matter how hard we tried.
View it like many things we legislate. We tolerate the numerous auto deaths because the restriction of the freedom driving provides in perpetuity is too much of a cost to bear, which isn't wrong.
Drug laws are complex in the same way and are more than good or bad will explain. The costs of the drug war, especially given their inability to achieve anything, are simply too much for society to bear compared to the self-inflicted costs to the lives of users.
Everything is moderation is key. Whether it's junk food, alcohol, drugs, video games, etc.
Simon Rudbech sorry , not abuser/user , cant see how you misunderstood that , I'm the observer of abuse/use , its all just different levels of the same stupidity , but weed users are the only ones tragically defending their poison, as if it was invented yesterday and "nobody else knows" "you just dont know" "it expands your mind" "it has no negative effects" sad bs
A happy worker is a good worker ✌☕ common knowledge
Your insane, keep the dope out of the work place. I don't need some 🤡 high as 💩 risking my life!
Alot of these corporate companies don't understand that..they wonder why they don't have truck drivers...well we can't smoke. It's not crack or fetnoln
@@jeff9062 ur choice na 😐 and it's not risky though some ppl use it for it's benefits of it the plant itself.
I use canna butter on desserts & i drink infused kool aid 😋😋
At least you’re sparing your lungs from not smoking
@@effdonahue6595 i do yetties but i don't smoke joints or cigarettes ☕
I hate using a grinder 😭 doesn't feel right without a bong and grinding it myself
And here we sit in the UK watching the world go by as we get left in the dust as usual. We are 50 years behind the rest of the world and forced to watch as our politicians only spar with each other 24/7 about personal matters and make no new real laws that the people want or need to move the country forward. Look at our headlines on a daily basis and you will see more personal issues than citizen issues being waged by the politicians.
Employers have thrown good talent away for years over this
Good talent? Yea ok?
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@@sandy6168 yeah. Ok?
@Mia Li the market is talking. Who’s delusional grandma?
@Mia L Carl Sagan smoked weed. I do as well and I'm an analyst that probably makes more money than you. Care to try again? That's an ignorant stereotype.
It’s illegal to drug test in Canada cuz it’s considered an invasion of privacy. The same should apply in the US.
@Michael Lyles gee.. I wonder who you voted for. I’m also a business owner & dgaf about what my people do in their free time as long as they get their work done. Businesses don’t own you just cuz you go there for 40hrs out of your 168hrs of the week.
@AppleJuice I don’t do any drugs. I just think employers should have no say so over what people do in their private lives. Most drugs leave your system in 1-3 days, so it’s clearly discrimination. And weed is mostly legal now. In the US, we support Alcohol & tobacco, but not other drugs if people want to indulge in their free time. It’s disgraceful.
@Michael Lyles ‘murica.
It is absolutely an invasion of your bodily autonomy.
@Michael Lyles, you can't test for whether or not youre high, you can only test if it was in your system recently - that's invasion of privacy. A breathalyzer tests if youre drunk, THC tests do not. Drug tests = invasion of privacy. Do you support freedom or the government telling you what you can do with your body? Simple
YOU GUYS NEED TO HELP LEGALIZE WEED FOR TRUCK DRIVERS, PILOTS AND ANY OTHERE JOB THAT DOES NOT ALLOW THE USE OF WEED. WE DON'T WANNA FLY A PLANE WITH A FEET UP ON THE DASH SPARKING UP A FAT BLUNT. WE WANNA GO HOME, EAT A SANDWICH, SMOKE A JOINT AND TAKE A NAP. THEN GO BACK TO WORK THE NEXT DAY SOBER TO DO YOU'RE HOURS
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you ought to.
I’m highly critical of Amazon but good on them for not including marijuana in their drug testing. More companies need to do this!
Oh my God would you please stop im not a g and thief really u dont know me at all u dont know what ppl have done to me not just ppl to. You need to stop. If God does punish me for stealing would God also judge you for calling me a thief??? I think he would!!!
It's because Amazon knows letting them smoke weed will keep them complacent and they won't try and get a better job.
Yup i got a job and more money thanks to them not giving a crap about cannabis…
@@sukmidri naw actually the turn around for drivers is pretty high for Amazon and it would be much harder to hire people on a short demand… can’t do it with a CDL though…
The past 3 months I’ve watched amazons hiring bonus go from $500 to $2500, so safe to say they did it cause they were desperate
I know y'all are going to hate me for mentioning this, but I have to mention it because I've been asked the "how" question.
I've noticed that in nearly every video I've seen, not a single person of color is being shown now that it's legal.
When it was illegal...WOW all over the place!
Want to know how systemic racism informs the American mindset, how it works, and its insidiousness? Just watch this video.
To add: I wonder how many specifically black men and women are still in jail serving long sentences for having in their possession less than an ounce of ganja on them?
Making this about race 🤦♂️🤦♂️🙇♂️🙇♂️🤡🤡
this is what is wrong with america. i have family still in jail over small amounts of weed. while it is a 24 million dollars business in america. War on drugs was and is a war on America's black youth. We didn't make it a black issue America's laws did.
Black AND white men and women 🤦♂️ 🤡
Well its true.
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i was vibing with this piece, kinda happy that weed is less stigmatized than before, until i realized the depth and depravity of The War On Drugs; to see people (usually darker than those shown) spend years in prison while others (who look like the people in the video) benefit from the legalization without undoing the harm dealt with communities with high drug use. its insane how appearances can change perceptions that fast
You could hear her grinding the stems in the grinder.
I’m pro weed and have been all my life, but I never thought about how it is better from and employers standpoint too. I agree I’d much rather have my workers go out and smoke than come in hungover
What you gonna do when they call up and say they got caught driving under the influence remember they said legalizing marijuana would lower people going to jail lol 🤣🤣🤣 it double people going to jail and that's why it's legal and god help you if you get caught selling with this new law
@@davejones1064 I’m sorry… what kind of abortion did your brain just have? None of what you said made sense, nor was coherent. Maybe settle down a bit first before you type, I’d offer you a joint to help but…
@@seniorpeor1370 you just to high to understand
@@davejones1064 but not msny people are that dumb to do so the same people driving under the influence now were the same as before when it was illegal and if your selling illegally you are dumb your statement here is dumb
@@leo-qy3wy in states that legalized marijuana people getting arrested have doubled instead of going down like they thought it would and each states have different laws but all are in it for the money I'll dumb it down for you so you can understand take a state where fire crackers and weed are illegal if you get caught selling a small amount you can get off will a warning most times but you get caught selling cigarettes or alchohol they will bury you under the jail and remember anytime the government gets there hands into anything they ruin it (LEAVE WEED ALONE!!!!!) Selling,growing,using out in public or driving the states that legalized it will crack down ten times harder on you states want the money they also want court cost they will also tax it heavily so people will start to look elsewhere to get there weed even now i hear people say they remember the good old days when weed was illegal before the government got there hands in it
Pro tip: don’t inhale while lighting a joint with a lighter. You are inhaling the butane as well.
Not if the lighter is burning. Butane combusts and turns into carbon dioxide, monoxide, and other things, but so does weed and rolling paper. Butane is much cleaner burning than paper or plant material. Even if you huffed a little butane out of the lighter it isn't going to hurt anything.
It's not very good to use Zippo type lighters, as the fuel is much more dirty, but mostly it's just a taste issue.
Of course anybody who has ever used a pipe knows the only way to use it is to inhale while the lighter is burning. You are clearly not a "pro".
@@ryanroberts1104 get outta here. I still wouldn’t use a lighter for that. 😂 there’s some called hemp wick. Also what is that bad taste you get when you do use a lighter. CuZ Im not sure. That taste you get makes stay from using a lighter directly in any use. 🤷🏻♂️
@@Lgndc137 You cannot taste butane. Butane is not harmful. End of discussion.
Weed could spark an economic boom for the US and break are dependency on Cartels south the border. Plus it would be nice to free the jails up from all these non violent offenders. Pot heads are more annoying than anything else. Didn’t do near the damage to my family alcoholism did.
Pot is not that innocent either. High people can be dangerous also.
@@marclopez6659 still better than alcohol.
im stoned everyday i go to work everyday i get all my other things done and drive and iam relaxed and never had an incident on the road its been about 10 years now
In manny states it’s legal but you can still get fired for having it in your system in trace amounts from personal use. I’ve seen it happen twice. Pretty messed up.
In youth weed mellowed my wild impulsiveness, and made me hungry. Now it just makes me sleepy, and hungry.
It also increases the likelihood for schizophrenia
With that logic truck drivers shouldn't be allowed alcohol either. Why the double standard
Where do I send my cv???