Amazon, Happy To Employ Dope Heads?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/amazon-is-lobbying-the-us-government-to-legalise-cannabis-12414216
...."disproportionately impacts people of colour"." - seriously? why is that allowed?

[naomi24]

Oh, you didn’t say what you said again. Ok.

[roadman]

well considering our brain has cannabinoid receptors that perfectly align with the cannabis plant who is to say its not natural to smoke the ganja

[pixie374]

You didn't read what I said. Again. OK.

[AuntPG]

Some people drink wine because they like the flavour and it compliments what they are eating -are they self-medicating? You can't have one without the other. I totally agree that you are pathologizing totally ordinary behaviour.

[pixie374]

I didn't say it wasn't natural, roadman, I have no objections, as I said.

[naomi24]

Seems I’m not the only one ‘not reading’ what you said, pixie.

[pixie374]

Oh blimey, apg... I thought more of you. Enjoyment is one thing... addiction, craving, is something else.

[pixie374]

You never do, though, naomi!

[roadman]

it would be good for the economy the tax would be incredible

[pixie374]

If it was legal and taxed, yes.

[Peter Pedant]

// Oh, you didn’t say what you said again. Ok.//
AB is full of it Naomi

One thing one day and the opposite the next - honestly we all get used to it

[pixie374]

PP... if you would like to point out any contradiction...please do.

[roadman]

pixie is getting a bit of stick for saying something about self medication i would like to say if it is because the person wants to just smoke or because the person feels smoking will help them there is little difference its not heroin or cocaine it is very casual and people need to see it as more of a casual thing

are people who do laughing gas self medicating no they are not they just want a quick high and what is the problem with that people do all sort of things for a quick high i think a cannabis cigarette is a very safe quick high

its not the weed people have an issue with its people being high isnt it the thought makes them uncomfortable

[bednobs]

in all fairness MOST organisations do not routinely screen their employees for cannabis use, either pre or during employment, so you could say that (for example) the UKs largest employer is happy to employ dope-heads under your logic TTT

[pixie374]

Thank you, roadman x I would say, it isn't about a quick high... but those who "need" to do regularly.

[fender62]

people iv met who smoked it for years, some have become insular and paranoid in social settings, if you can get them to even go out, not saying all just the ones iv met over the years.

[New Judge]

//i also wouldn't give it an automatic ban to workers. They are either doing their job properly, or they aren't.//

I suppose it depends whether you are happy to employ people who readily break the law. Cannabis is a Class B drug and its possession – even for personal use – carries a maximum sentence of five years’ custody.

//…having a cannabis cigarette after work is no different to someone having a beer//

But it isn’t though, is it? (see above).

The idea that a ban on employing cannabis users disproportionately discriminates against “people of colour” (whatever that might mean today) is simply laughable. It discriminates against people who use the stuff. If more people of colour use it than people of no colour (I can’t readily think of the correct opposite) then they are more likely to be refused employment. It’s not discrimination on the basis of their colour.

I turned a builder off of my premises a few years ago when he began smoking cannabis in my front garden whilst repairing my gutters. I did make one request of him to stop but he began again ten minutes later. There’s no way I would employ anybody who smokes that stuff. Apart from anything else it absolutely stinks.

[davebro]

I think cocaine users have been in some pretty important jobs in the past (present?). Recreational use of some drugs & alcohol does not stop you functioning effectively at work (unless maybe you are a driver or machine operator).

[youngmafbog]

I'm in two minds as to whether it should be legalised or not. But, what I really find odd is the assertion "people of colour" are dope heads. Most bizarre and certainly not my experience of the group of people.

[bednobs]

the article does not say that though - it asserts that in America, people of colour are more rigorously pursued through the justice system for transgression than their equally sinning white counterparts.
I have no idea if that's true or not.
In any case "happy to employ people who smoke cannabis" is completely false as most employers would not have a clue who does or doesn't - how could they? NJ's one off anecdote is an exception because he saw the person doing it. I would suggest that the majority of employees do NOT smoke it on their employers premises. A large amountof them may well smoke it off the employers premises, but the employer would have no way of knowing.
Of course, there are some jobs where you are routinely tested for drugs; i would suggest they are a minority of jobs though