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[tombogan03884]

. If you ever want to underachieve, smoking pot is a good place to start.

The best sheet metal fabricators, welders, and machinists I have known in my career (2 exceptions among the machinists, but they were OLD old school ) have all been potheads, and they all had all their fingers.

[Timothy]

The best sheet metal fabricators, welders, and machinists I have known in my career (2 exceptions among the machinists, but they were OLD old school ) have all been potheads, and they all had all their fingers.

I've seen that firsthand myself.  My old employer was bought out by a larger company and instituted a "drug policy".  We had a staff meeting and made them realize that if they did that they'd lose 80-90% of a very talented workforce.  The company is nearly 35 years in sheet metal fabrication and going strong.  These men were artists...  and every one of you who've had a DD coffee, eaten at a Legal Seafoods, Morton House, BJ's Wholesale, Panara Bread or any number of hundreds of other companies have seen their work!

On a similar note, one of our best welders drank whiskey all day long, every day of the year...he couldn't lay a bead sober...

[jaybet]

Points taken...not everyone is hampered by weed, which is even MORE to the point. Demonizing it is completely based on fantasy.  Some people can't function on pot (like me) but that doesn't make it beer....beer has ruined more lives and killed more people than pot, and that doesn't count all the other alcohol products.
We are not a free people.

[deepwater]

I don't know about that.  I have several friends who still partake who are either owners of or high ranking executives of prosperous companies.  I find it little different than alcohol to that affect.  Alcohol is far, far more dangerous on a daily basis than cannabis and it's perfectly legal!

I have no problem with the occasional user.  I only stopped because the job I was doing thirty years ago required that I have clean piss.  What I do on my own time is nobodies business but some folks don't see it that way!

no kidding. so many things that are regulated are just plain stupid.. weed, distillation, certain pills and medications. WTF. most things are legal. but don't try making them yourself or buying outside of a pharmacy... big sis gets pissed. heck, the majority of what ATF busts people for is ridiculous. why are we letting ourselves fall further into .gov control?

[tombogan03884]

no kidding. so many things that are regulated are just plain stupid.. weed, distillation, certain pills and medications. WTF. most things are legal. but don't try making them yourself or buying outside of a pharmacy... big sis gets pissed. heck, the majority of what ATF busts people for is ridiculous. why are we letting ourselves fall further into .gov control?

Because the "majority" are fools and/or cowards.

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