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Legal weed is wreaking havoc on return to office: ‘all of NY is wake and baking’
- dehugger 4y agoInteresting, Washington (state) has had legal weed for nearly a decade now and does not appear to have experienced societal collapse or an incoherently high workforce. Maybe the east coast has a power THC tolerance?
- Apocryphon 4y agoAs far as smells go- maybe urban density exacerbates the issue that WA is able to avoid.
- heisnotanalien 4y agoWhy would work not be getting done? It's just a weed stereotype. Some people are inspired or more productive after smoking.
- bitlax 4y agoIt's true. They should be piping the smoke into classrooms.
- heisnotanalien 4y agoIt's not good for teens or people before 25. Again you're trying to be silly when a serious discussion is what is required.
- sn0w_crash 4y agoHave smoked for several decades. If you think weed does not affect productivity, then you haven’t smoked enough of it. If something can have a positive effect it can also have a negative effect. The idea that weed is a net positive with no downsides just isn’t reality.
- krageon 4y agoMost people have jobs where most of their cognitive capacity matters not one whit. You can stock shelves or do office work while stoned out of your mind (and people do). For some reason we don't love the idea, but tbqh these jobs are broadly torture anyway - so why are people not allowed to make them bearable?
- Karawebnetwork 4y agoFor all we know people are being smart and smoking high cbd strains in the morning.
- feet 4y agoI've seen you comment so many times and I honestly can't tell if you're serious or a parody account
- feet 4y agoWhen I use cannabis I just end up coding or working on my homelab for hours straight, I think it's wonderful for my productivity
- Nihilartikel 4y agoMy experience with THC is that it has a pronounced Ballmer Peak (see xkcd), with a higher high (heh) and lower low than alcohol. At just the right level and with the right environment (and jazz fusion album) it's a shortcut to flow state and serendipitous lateral thinking, but overshoot that and you'll just be forgetting what local variables are in scope..
- sph 4y agoWell, you said it. Some people. I was a stoner for all my 20s. A toke and the hardest thing I could do was play video games and eat junk food. Meanwhile, my stoner mates would work on their side projects until deep into the night. We're not all cut from the same cloth.
- nunez 4y agoYeah but those outcomes would be similar even if you didn't smoke. Everyone has different levels of intrinsic motivation.
- omgwtfusb 4y agoWhat's the havoc exactly? From all the people interviewed, the ones complaining about the smoke on their way to the office seem to be losing most productivity...
- bitlax 4y agoYes...
- feet 4y agoSo people are mad because they lose productivity because they are too busy complaining about weed? Brilliant
- bitlax 4y agoThat's certainly one story, but the more plausible one is that people who are more productive --and have more productivity to lose-- are less likely to smoke marijuana. Equivalently, marijuana smokers are generally less productive.
- feet 4y agoI don't know about that, I did multiple degrees and I'm working on a PhD and I smoke and use edibles all the time. I know other people who are similar. Almost like cannabis use is independent of productivity and the lazy stoner stereotype is a drug war myth, weird huh
- program_whiz 4y agoAITA For wanting to be able to walk in peace without inhaling smoke? Weed gives me extreme paranoid reactions even from small doses. Being forced to breathe it feels like an assault and I have anxiety until it wears off. As a society we have rationalized the use of smoking by saying that there are absolutely no downsides, it has no addictive properties, and is safe and useful to anyone (unlike all other known substances). However some people are infirm, elderly, children with developing brains and lungs, have health problems, have anxiety issues that weed exacerbates, et cetera. Ive known more than One person who is pushed to a psychotic break by heavy weed use. Maybe it's anecdotal, but there are mentally unstable people, and exposing them to highly concentrated thc of today seems cruel (possibly condemning them to a hellish life). I feel this mindset of spraying substances everyone must endure is a bit like a factory polluting the river, an externality the selfish justify because it benefits them and doesnt have personal cost. But rest assured, others are bearing the cost. If you think that everyone else should be subjected to your psychoative smoke, then you should have no problem with people disposing of half used medication into the office water cooler. After all it was prescribed by a doctor and is probably safe in small doses. There are no studies showing any negative effects of half a prozac dissolved in a water cooler, so there are probably no negative effects. If everyone disposed of their half used medications into unfiltered drinking water, we can be sure it would cause no problems since my experience of that medication has caused me no problems.
- feet 4y agoSecond hand weed smoke does not lead to any meaningful increase in THC plasma concentration
- yucky 4y agoImagine if people didn't want to return to the office because they were getting drunk first thing in the morning. I doubt we'd consider that acceptable.
- camgunz 4y agoYeah, I'm extremely liberal but I wish we'd ban all public smoking/vaping of everything (i.e. you get a ticket). I really dislike the smell of weed, and here in the EU it feels like every time my pregnant partner and I are at a bus stop someone's blowing (tobacco) smoke directly in our faces.