Prohibition repealed?

[t-homo]

Why is using on the job even being talked about? It's not like you are going to be allowed to smoke joints on smoke breaks.

[Kaneman]

Originally Posted by t-homo

Why is using on the job even being talked about? It's not like you are going to be allowed to smoke joints on smoke breaks.

Why not? I did it for over a decade and consistently performed above and beyond that of all my co-workers. I still have the reports to prove it.

People take prescription medication on the job every day and nobody bats an eye. Many people use pot as a medication, and it is far less mind altering than most medicines, and less lethal than all of them.

[derf]

Originally Posted by Kaneman

Why not? I did it for over a decade and consistently performed above and beyond that of all my co-workers. I still have the reports to prove it.

People take prescription medication on the job every day and nobody bats an eye. Many people use pot as a medication, and it is far less mind altering than most medicines, and less lethal than all of them.

Hehe, you should see my reaction to tylenol 3 with codine. I might as well be doing lines of coke off a strippers ass.

[t-homo]

IMO, everyone who is going to go to work high if it were legal does anyway.

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by t-homo

IMO, everyone who is going to go to work high if it were legal does anyway.

Probably true. I don't want to work/go to battle with anyone impaired in ANY way. If you have a lack of sleep because of battle necessity, it is not the same as if you drink, take meds or smoke dope on your breaks. I am always impressed by people that tell me that they perform as well stoned/drunk as they do sober. IMHO anyone that thinks that just don't know the heights they may have achieved if they hadn't been on dope.

[Kaneman]

Originally Posted by Amber Lamps

IMHO anyone that thinks that just don't know the heights they may have achieved if they hadn't been on dope.

[Evadd]

Originally Posted by Amber Lamps

Probably true. I don't want to work/go to battle with anyone impaired in ANY way. If you have a lack of sleep because of battle necessity, it is not the same as if you drink, take meds or smoke dope on your breaks.

actually, it is. studies have shown that sleep deprivation has the same effect on a person's ability to function as consuming 1-2 alcoholic drinks per hour.

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Evadd

actually, it is. studies have shown that sleep deprivation has the same effect on a person's ability to function as consuming 1-2 alcoholic drinks per hour.

Okay, I don't know you so I'll need to ask a couple questions; 1 have you ever been in combat? I have. 2. Do you know the difference between necessary and voluntary?

In combat and even sometimes in life, you are FORCED to go without the proper amount of sleep. You are not FORCED to get high. Besides as a lot of the guys will back me up, in the military, you are often FORCED to go without sleep, why would you want to add pot to that? Do you have a study that proves that getting high when you are overly tired makes you a better soldier? If so then break it out, I'd be interested to read what they have to say.

Basically, what a lot of you are trying to say is that having your left hand cut off is just as detrimental as cutting off your own right hand... Okay, so why do you all want to cut off both? Hey, here's an idea, how about we strive to come to work/combat well rested and sober? You know instead of making excuses why getting high is the same as __________ or doing ________ is just as bad as getting high. Let's not do either if we have the choice.

[Evadd]

Originally Posted by Amber Lamps

Okay, I don't know you so I'll need to ask a couple questions; 1 have you ever been in combat? I have. 2. Do you know the difference between necessary and voluntary?

In combat and even sometimes in life, you are FORCED to go without the proper amount of sleep. You are not FORCED to get high. Besides as a lot of the guys will back me up, in the military, you are often FORCED to go without sleep, why would you want to add pot to that? Do you have a study that proves that getting high when you are overly tired makes you a better soldier? If so then break it out, I'd be interested to read what they have to say.

Basically, what a lot of you are trying to say is that having your left hand cut off is just as detrimental as cutting off your own right hand... Okay, so why do you all want to cut off both? Hey, here's an idea, how about we strive to come to work/combat well rested and sober? You know instead of making excuses why getting high is the same as __________ or doing ________ is just as bad as getting high. Let's not do either if we have the choice.

easy, cowboy. i have no problem with people working fatigued when they have to. i do 30-hour shifts (better than the 36 i used to do) and make on-the-spot life and death decisions.

my statement was ONLY about your statement saying fatigue is not the same as being intoxicated. it IS, and studies have proven it. would i want someone drunk AND intoxicated? no, and that's a stupid question that has nothing to do with what i said.

[t-homo]

It definitely lowers my abilities a little bit at some things, but can make me better at some shit. I can sell anything to anyone when I am high.