Exactly! Never did I say an employee should be allowed to go to work high. Here is even my quote where I stated that they should be fired.
So I ask, how is this any different than alcohol? If a person comes in drunk to work they should be fired, and if they come in high they should also be fired. Yet same thing though, if a person decided to get drunk the night before, but comes in and can perform their job at satisfactory levels, why shouldn’t the person that did marijuana be the same way. Companies have ratings a reviews so it should be based on how they perform and not about what a person did in their off time because even though you do not believe it, there are many successful people who have admitted to smoking weed……here is a list of 50 of them!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5160073.html So lazy….we got Michael Phelps to Lebron James on this list. Unproductive….we got Bill gates all the way to Obama! If most “sober” people could accomplish what these guys did then I’d be more inclined to agree with you: I feel lazy and unproductive is just how some people are, drugs or not.
So really it sounds like your argument is against ALL drugs then because alcohol kills brain cells as much or more than Marijuana (that is Townies favorite subject; legalize all drugs then). So to single out Marijuana really makes me think that you are basing things on stereotypes and old school thinking. In no way does your argument mean this only happens to marijuana users. If so I’d love to go head to head to prove which is more dangerous and causes more deaths, addiction, withdrawals, and overdoses…..stats don’t lie!
Sports….really? Have you not heard of CTE and how is has been proven that hits to the head do cause major mental problems to a person. So again, to single out weed, but you would be ok with a guy that goes and spars in boxing each night and gets hit 50 times and maybe KO’s a few times, when that has been proven to make a person go crazy….many pro athletes have went crazy to the point of killing their entire family. Research
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Dr.Bennet Omalu’s work and then come back and say it doesn’t have a affect outside of the hobby. So in your case you would have to ban all contact sports as well so you are not in fear that what a person does outside of work will endanger you at work. Don’t even get me into health because even that has a huge impact at a work environment; people get cardiac arrest and strokes form bad health that certainly affect the brain and body. For example you talk about heavy equipment, but if a person has bad health, there is a possibility that they will not be able to do the physical duties of their job; maybe they could when they were hired though, but years later their health declined. So in your case we would also have to monitor how much a person eats and exercise because again that could affect their work and put you in jeopardy.
Overall though the post was about the revenue Marijuana has brought in that everyone in Colorado is benefiting from. The state of CO people voted in to legalize marijuana, so your case is a bit late and since it is in effect it clearly shows that your opinions are a minority of CO. Again I’d rather have CO benefit from the tax money. Because like it or not people will do drugs whether they are legal or not so why not tax them and try to use the money for positive impacts to the community.