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Why be openly 420?

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My posting history? WTF are you talking about? I've got enough self-esteem that I don't have to go online to anonymously lie to a bunch of people I'll never meet in real life.

To answer your question: yes, several times. I worked for a long time in the theme park industry in Southern and Northern California. Naturally, we mostly hired teens and young adults, but a surprising number of them advertised their use either on their person, clothing, bumper stickers, email addresses or on their unblocked facebook or myspace pages.

I've had applicants come to interviews smelling of weed, or wearing marijuana leaf tattoos, toting imitation Louis Vuitton handbags where each of the LV logos was a tiny marijuana leaf, and even high as a kite. And those weren't even the scary interviews. Maybe it's a lack of maturity, or maybe they really didn't want a job.

I don't use, but try not to judge what people do in their personal lives. I wish pot was legal because putting someone in jail for it is fucking stupid unless they are hurting someone else. But there is big money to be made by the law enforcement community and prison industry, so I don't see it becoming legal across the board anytime soon.

I might be confusing you with someone else. It just smelled of wingnut fantasy, not real life experience. I can see your job leading to dumb kids applying with that kind of email address. I apologize.

I'd guess that the reason you get so many is that these kids are either believe that you're not hip to the fact that everyone knows what 4:20 means (dumb) or they don't think it's a big deal (dumber). And they're parents don't proofread their applications.
 
Bottom line: because some people can't accept that 420 isn't universally acceptable. They have their own little reality, and a death grip on it.
 
OK, I got it.

Marijuana-loving is not universal. The people who do love marijuana need to understand theirs is not the only view point. They need to respect the marijuana dislike, especially since it is illegal.
 
OK, I got it.

Marijuana-loving is not universal. The people who do love marijuana need to understand theirs is not the only view point. They need to respect the marijuana dislike, especially since it is illegal.

They don't have to respect it, but they should accept it as reality. They can proselytize all day about how things ought to be, but that ain't how it IS.
 
They don't have to respect it, but they should accept it as reality. They can proselytize all day about how things ought to be, but that ain't how it IS.
People shouldn't talk about how they would prefer things to be, they simply need to respect that everything is as it is now and will never change?
 
People shouldn't talk about how they would prefer things to be, they simply need to respect that everything is as it is now and will never change?

What part of "they don't have to respect it" don't you understand?

No one's mind is going to be changed because they see lots of 420 emails or bumper stickers. Getting turned down for jobs or getting arrested isn't going to change squat.
 
This smells like bullshit. I've been on a ton of hiring committees and haven't seen a single instance of this. Have you?

Given your posting history, I'm leaning towards you making it up. Do you manage a taco bell, or something?

ummm have you ever hired for a non-professional job like "taco Bell" or manual labor like in a print shop that does hand collating? the shit i saw on those apps would boggle your mind. im talking people who dropped out of the 7th grade.

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If you don't get it, I'm not going to waste my time explaining, it'd just sail past your head anyways.

Oh, I got it. I just wanted to see if you were stupid enough to claim that MJ is some kind of a civil right. Apparently, you understand how stupid it sounds.
 
Oh, I got it. I just wanted to see if you were stupid enough to claim that MJ is some kind of a civil right. Apparently, you understand how stupid it sounds.

Hell yeah marijuana is a civil rights issue, not on the same level as the racial issues of the past, but it has everything to do with civil rights. You're a fucking idiot if you think it isn't. But to the point, I had to laugh at your idiotic comment about "accepting things the way it is". I brought MLK up because he'd laugh because if people like you have any influence in society, we'd still be in the dark age.
 
In the end it's no different than someone wearing a bud light shirt or whatever. It just helps you weed out the morons. Sorry for that awesome pun.
 
I'm not into mj, but it sucks hiding things. They're open about it because they're comfortable about it and it allows them to connect with peers they feel comfortable being with. Same reason anyone is open about anything else.
 
I'm not into mj, but it sucks hiding things. They're open about it because they're comfortable about it and it allows them to connect with peers they feel comfortable being with. Same reason anyone is open about anything else.

:thumbsup:

Exactly, and like someone else said, there's a time and place for it as well.
 
They don't have to respect it, but they should accept it as reality. They can proselytize all day about how things ought to be, but that ain't how it IS.

Why do they have to accept it? Why can't they try to change the laws? Before 1996, an outright ban on MJ was how it was in CA but the voters spoke to legalize MJ for medical purposes. What prevents them from working toward the next step of legalization?
 
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