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Of course Amazon is watching out for their business interest, but they are doing the morally right thing here. I do not smoke anything as a personal preference
by mynegation 5y ago
Of course Amazon is watching out for their business interest, but they are doing the morally right thing here.
I do not smoke anything as a personal preference and do not enjoy when second-hand smoke and smell affects me but I support legalization for the simple reason that criminalization of marijuana and stigmatization of pot smokers is much much worse.
- ffhhj 5y agoSomething I learned from a pot smoker: they sometimes mix it with other drugs for higher effects.
- crazy_horse 5y agoYes, add caffeine... Hippie speedball.
- gunfighthacksaw 5y agoI regularly mix cannabis with a super potent CNS depressant that I buy from a shifty young woman dressed as a waitress in my local bar.
- ChefboyOG 5y agoDoes CNN know about this?
- Bilal_io 5y agoI bet Fox does
- zardo 5y agoSometimes I mix cannabis with more dangerous drugs like alcohol.
- Ms-J 5y agoAnd what is your point? Everyone has the right to enjoy substances as she/he wants.
- bserge 5y agoNo way bruh, you should publish these findings!
- oblib 5y agoSomeone stuffing crack in a joint is not a "pot smoker". They're a crackhead using pot to burn their crack.
- klyrs 5y agoNah, crack harshes the mellow. Real heads put powdered banana peel and nutmeg in their spliff bongs.
- Scoundreller 5y agoI’m more of a Zambian sewer gas kind of guy myself.
- junon 5y agoI actually inject my marijuanas, personally. Three or four marijuanas is enough to do me in for the night. But I stay away from the hard shit, like alcohol.
- seattle_spring 5y agoI go for jenkem when I'm looking for a deep fix. You'd better be careful, more than 4 Marijuanas is overdose territory.
- ineedasername 5y agoCorrect... but not really relevant especially if Amazon is still screening for other drugs.
- junon 5y agoAnecdotally, I have never met nor heard of anyone mixing anything with weed except for tobacco, sometimes. So how is this "correct"?
- ffhhj 5y agoDoesn't mean some won't do it, or that they will tell you.
- seattle_spring 5y agoWhat exactly is the implication with this tidbit?
- ineedasername 5y agoBecause I know people that have mixed drugs like that. Usually some type of euphoric. So it is correct, though I don't know if it's particularly common.
- junon 5y agoWeed doesn't cause people to do that. So why does it matter?
- ineedasername 5y agoIt doesn't matter. Look further up the discussion thread and you'll see that was my original point: Some people may mix weed with other drugs but that's irrelevant for the linked story.
- junon 5y ago
- techrat 5y agoExcept all Amazon has done was taken a group marginalized by the prison system (war on drugs) and is taking advantage of their position (drug testing vulnerable or felon status due to drug arrests) and putting them in a situation where they are at the absolute mercy of Amazon if anything were to happen. (Get T-boned by someone who ran a red light? We'll drug test you and fire you for cause even if you were sober at the time.) This is an extension of prison labor.
- gruez 5y ago>This is an extension of prison labor. You lost me with that hyperbole. I fail to see how you can equate voluntarily working for a company earning at least minimum wage and other benefits, as "prison labor".
- pope_meat 5y agoIt's amazing we have so many volunteers for some of the worst jobs around. Happy volunteers, voluntarily working. You can see it on their faces, at 8:37pm pulling packages out of a van and running to a door, happy little contractors, happily volunteering.
- gruez 5y agoAlright, let's flip the question: what doesn't constitute an "extension of prison labor"? If you think everything is an "extension of prison labor" that's not really an interesting statement. Is being a prehistoric hunter-gatherer also an "extension of prison labor"? It seems to check your boxes. Risking your life to hunt for woolly mammoths definitely seems more risky than delivering packages at 8:37pm, so I doubt those hunters were "happy volunteers, voluntarily working".
- pope_meat 5y agoHunter gatherer society actually included A LOT of downtime. People are being worked to death, and it's reflected in the deteriorating mental health that's prevalent. I'll have to ask the guy next time I see him if he feels like "it's voluntary", because someone on the internet said "well, actually, they choose this!" The contractor/gig economy is absolutely gross, and the vast majority of people are turning a blind eye because it's just so nice "for the consumer" The consumer is actually more important than the human. Are you seriously going to tell me you don't understand what's wrong here?