Steven the Lesser: Poll on DUer Pot Usage and the law

[Ralph Wiggum]

stevenleser (17,637 posts)

Poll on DUer Pot Usage and the law - Do you use Pot and how would changes in law affect that usage

47 votes, 2 passes | Time left: Unlimited
   I use marijuana now and would continue to use regardless of the law 13 (28%)
   I don't use marijuana now but would definitely use if it became legal 3 (6%)
   I don't use marijuana now but I would consider using if it became legal 3 (6%)
   I don't use marijuana now and I would never consider using it regardless of legal status. 21 (45%)
   Other/Not sure 7 (15%)
   2 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.

Other or not sure?    Are they too stoned to even know what they are voting on?  Anyway, a few selected responses:

JNelson6563 (25,829 posts)
1. People should be careful what they post on the internet.

Just sayin'.

stevenleser (17,637 posts)
2. Good post. I echo that, so please take care if your DU handle reveals your real name and you

are intending to vote that you use or would use pot.

cali (92,025 posts)
3. this is a really bad idea.

Proud Public Servant (1,166 posts)
5. I'll be the first to answer "Other"

Don't use it now.

As a federal employee subject to random drug screening, wouldn't use it regardless of its legal status.

Poll me again once I retire.

FSogol (18,999 posts)
6. I look forward to your "would you embezzle money from work" & "do you cheat on your

taxes" polls.

 

Politicalboi (11,063 posts)
7. I've been smoking for over 30 yeras

Laws don't stop me. The ONLY thing that stops me is silly drug tests for jobs that pay $8.00 an hour, and expect you to be clean while working there, but it's ok to go with other employees to a ****ing bar. I say **** the law.

mike_c (32,801 posts)
15. it strikes me as odd how many people have raised a reasonable objection...

...about confessing to a crime in this poll. Cannabis is so much a part of the culture here on California's north coast that it's easy to forget that attitudes are not so accepting elsewhere in the country. My neighbors grow cannabis. My house has a (currently) decommissioned grow room in the attic. A couple of my former grad students who remained in the area are growers. Several of my friends trim, either for extra income or as their primary occupation. I'm talking about people in my age range, e.g. 40s-60s, not just the transient young folks passing through. In summer we routinely sit on the porch, in full view of the neighbors, and pass the bong.

Ten plus years ago my ex tried to win an argument by calling the county sheriff's deputies to the house and offering to narc on me for my cannabis stash (she was not a nice person, I'll be the first to admit). The deputies responded "Ma'am, it's Humboldt County. We're not interested in his pot." Then they left.

stevenleser (17,637 posts)
16. It's not legal here in NYC yet, but police really don't pay attention much to users.

It's around me constantly. Just walking the streets you smell other people smoking it. You smell it coming from many buildings.

If personal use were a priority for law enforcement there would be arrests and busts all over the place.

Again, maybe this is an unusual experience and the rest of the country outside of places like California and Colorado are stricter, but I don't think Law enforcement is going to spend the effort to link DU handles with IP addresses to bust people for personal use.

By all means, if people are concerned, don't participate in the poll, I just don't see it.

[USA4ME]

 

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[dane]

FSogol (18,999 posts)
6. I look forward to your "would you embezzle money from work" & "do you cheat on your

taxes" polls.

Well, I'm looking forward to the DU poll "How much time to you spend on the internet on your work computer, and why don't you consider it a form of theft?"

[BattleHymn]

Politicalboi (11,063 posts)

7. I've been smoking for over 30 yeras[sic]

Laws don't stop me. The ONLY thing that stops me is silly drug tests for jobs that pay $8.00 an hour, and expect you to be clean while working there, but it's ok to go with other employees to a ****ing bar. I say **** the law.

I'm not a genius, but I may have found a correlation here. 

[obumazombie]

Hopefully it's a sitdown minimum wage job.

[BattleHymn]

Hopefully it's a sitdown minimum wage job.

When applying for jobs, I'm always been relieved to find out the place I'm applying at does mandatory pre-employment drug screening as well as random tests during employment.

Nobody wants to work around a bunch of damn potheads. 

[marv]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/05/third-graders-caught-smoking-pot-in-sonora-school-bathroom/

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SONORA (CBS SF) — Three third-grade students at a Sonora elementary school were busted for smoking pot in the school’s bathroom last week.

Two 8-year-olds and a 9-year-old were caught by another student, who immediately informed school administrators.  Those officials then alerted local police.

The students were questioned by officers, and later released to their parents on February 27th.

(snip)

Future DUers........

[diesel driver]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/05/third-graders-caught-smoking-pot-in-sonora-school-bathroom/
Future DUers........

Future nothing!

8 and 9 year olds smoking pot, THEY ARE DUers! 

Actually they may be more mature than the average DUmmie.