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I'm a journalist that wrote the story "The Lawyer, The Addict" two years ago in The New York Times, about my ex-husband, a law firm partner that died an IV drug addict. I came on t…

This is a follow up to my Ask:HN post last week about drug use in tech and science [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16465762] For those who didn't want to respond unless I had…

Hi geekout. I tried you via email but I have a protonmail account now. So if you want to reach me there it's eilenez@protonmail.ch Thanks, Eilene

I'm going to reach out now, thanks.

thanks, I'd like to email you to the address in your profile, ok?

Thanks for clarifying. I don't have conclusions yet, but I do have ideas and didn't think my questions were leading. So apologize if they seem so. If you don't feel "pressured"--ov…

I will reach out, thank you. This is very helpful. Your last paragraph describes Peter accurately. At some point, all the years of chronic stress, too little sleep, too many stimul…

What kind of work do you do?

I'm glad (for you) too.

Would you be comfortable giving some general details about what you do, in what kind of company you work and how long you've been in the industry? (It helps e to qualify your opini…

I don't want to do a hatchet job on white collar drug use, no. I want to learn what's actually being used, the extent of the use and then draw some meaning from that, meaning that …

Are you aware of others in your company or at other companies that also use cannabis as much as you? Or are you aware of people using narcotics/amphetamines?

How long ago was this? (also, how awful)

I would love to see a study too.

That's what I'm thinking (as I stare at a computer screen for 8 hours...)

If I sound like an idiot, forgive me, but you mean, literally, contractors that have to physically climb towers, right?

Why weed? It would seem that would make you want to hang out all day and snack, or just sleep or watch television?

Just realized I've reached out to Hart but have not heard back.

I am not trying in anyway to contribute to prohibition (and history shows it doesn't work anyway). But I'll keep your warning in mind, sincerely. And I'll track down Carl Hart. Tha…

so dope meaning weed right?

Does that make you feel you should be using something too?

understood, thanks.

Do you all discuss the heavy use because you're concerned about the toll it could take on your lungs, in the same way you might be concerned if it was tobacco? or is it more than t…

thanks for the link. And I have found meth is alot more common, it seems, in the gay community.