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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 resoluteteeth »

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.…

If by "harsh consequences" you mean a $20 fine for smoking pot/cigarettes/cigars in a crowded public places I guess maybe. If you're proposing locking people up that seems a bit extreme.

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Post by PragmaticPulp »

I’m guessing they can do this because they’re big enough to push back on insurance requirements.

The drug testing requirement for delivery drivers isn’t necessarily a moral imperative from management. It’s a condition of their insurance requirements. The article touches on this:

> Other delivery companies are continuing to screen applicants, concerned about the insurance and liability implications in the many states where weed use remains illegal.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

oxymoran wrote: post #10
jack_riminton wrote: post #5

Some of the comments are assuming that all those who smoke pot are irresponsible or unable to do a job if they do smoke pot (this includes people who may only smoke at weekends/parties btw)

And also clearly have never been high enough to realize that they are more likely to be super paranoid and going 10 miles under the speed limit than driving through a fence or running over children. It’s not at all comparable to being drunk.

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

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Post by pitched »

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.…

Just out of curiosity and this isn’t meant to be mean, but, what kind of harsh consequence do you think would be appropriate for imposing that smell?

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Post by selestify »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #37
tyingq wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meaning most people can drink alcohol without fear of being tested for past use in a work context. We don't regulate it in the workplace the way we regulate pot use.

I dunno. Background checks include DUIs.

You don't get a DUI just for being drunk on the couch on the weekend, you have to also be operating a vehicle while drunk. Which is what the parent comment was talking about -- it's not regulated in the same way that pot usage is.

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Post by Shadonototro »

jack_riminton wrote: post #33
Shadonototro wrote: post #23

drug addicts who are willing to work like slaves with crappy salary only because they are so high to even reason about it not to mention the security risk nice society!

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 because nobody wants to work like a slave anymore, only pot smokers! who would have guessed!

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Post by didgeoridoo »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #42

I’m guessing they can do this because they’re big enough to push back on insurance requirements. The drug testing requirement for delivery drivers isn’t necessarily a moral imperative from management. It’s a condition of their insurance requirements. The article touches on this: > Other delivery companies are continuing to screen applicants, concerned about the insurance and liability implications in the many states…

Or perhaps they are underwriting their own insurance. Once companies get big enough, it makes more sense for them to hold onto the premiums themselves and just pay an insurance company to administer the paperwork.

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Post by Shadonototro »

jack_riminton wrote: post #33
Shadonototro wrote: post #23

drug addicts who are willing to work like slaves with crappy salary only because they are so high to even reason about it not to mention the security risk nice society!

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

show me your portfolio ;)
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