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Amazon’s answer to delivery driver shortage: Pot smokers

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Re: Amazon’s answer to delivery driver shortage: Pot smokers

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Post by deadbunny »

da_big_ghey wrote: post #32

Well I am all in favor of legalizeing, but there is side effect: those who are smoking in public, cigarette but especially pot, must have harsh consequence. I go to some place in US and it is stinking everywhere on public streets. People can not force everybody to inhale their drug fume only because they want their high. Edit for clarifying: maybe a $200 fine is good point for starting, go up to $500 with repeating.…

Hey, we wouldn't have to stand around outside if the busybodies hadn't stopped us lighting up in bars.

Re: Amazon’s answer to delivery driver shortage: Pot smokers

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Post by wutbrodo »

Shadonototro wrote: post #47
jack_riminton wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pot smokers are worlds apart from 'drug addicts', which i presume you're equating with opiates or other highly physically addictive substances

yeap, so MURICA can legalize it first, secures the market, lobby "allies" into legalizing too, so it can become a global giant can't you see already the propaganda, the pro-'canabis' all around the world? a drug is a drug, my dear friend i seen many "pot" smoker in high school, they couldn't even concentrate properly during tests, they all failed miserable at society look, some even are being grabbed by amazon becaus…

> a drug is a drug, my dear friend

I don't think even you believe this, unless you're willing to bite the bullet of alcohol and coffee prohibition? They're the most central, widely-used psychoactive drugs in the world, and after all, "a drug is a drug".

Re: Amazon’s answer to delivery driver shortage: Pot smokers

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Post by wutbrodo »

paulcole wrote: post #113
jack_riminton wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When did HN start having such low quality comments?

People who live in glass houses and all. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28338633

I'm genuinely confused by this comment. Can you explain why you think speculation about the hardware costs of Waymo robotaxi is at all related to a complaint about silly jokes on HN?

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Post by tyrfing »

One large brown delivery company also rarely drug tests. Drivers of school buses, semi trucks, and similar have federally mandated drug testing, non-CDL delivery drivers don't. Particularly when liability is transferred to contractors, the surprising part is that this wasn't the encouraged policy from the start.

Also, any shortage is entirely self inflicted from offering poor wages.

Re: Amazon’s answer to delivery driver shortage: Pot smokers

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Post by bserge »

honksillet wrote: post #137

One underappreciated aspect of this. They will ignore marijuana at time of hire. But they will absolutely test you if there is ever an accident or if you are injured at work (even if you just strain your back picking up a heavy object) before you see an occupational health doctor. If you come back positive in the course of injury, they won't cover your workers compensation bills. They'll fire you (for being intoxicat…

Take full advantage of the system. Smart. These people might never suffer no matter what changes, unless maybe there's some sort of purge.

Re: Amazon’s answer to delivery driver shortage: Pot smokers

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Post by zardo »

ffhhj wrote: post #118
mynegation wrote: post #27

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.

Something I learned from a pot smoker: they sometimes mix it with other drugs for higher effects.

Sometimes I mix cannabis with more dangerous drugs like alcohol.

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Post by Ms-J »

ffhhj wrote: post #118
mynegation wrote: post #27

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.

Something I learned from a pot smoker: they sometimes mix it with other drugs for higher effects.

And what is your point?

Everyone has the right to enjoy substances as she/he wants.

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Post by bserge »

ffhhj wrote: post #118
mynegation wrote: post #27

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.

Something I learned from a pot smoker: they sometimes mix it with other drugs for higher effects.

No way bruh, you should publish these findings!

Re: Amazon’s answer to delivery driver shortage: Pot smokers

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Post by oblib »

ffhhj wrote: post #118
mynegation wrote: post #27

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.

Something I learned from a pot smoker: they sometimes mix it with other drugs for higher effects.

Someone stuffing crack in a joint is not a "pot smoker". They're a crackhead using pot to burn their crack.
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