Stoner Jobs

Hello everyone.
:willy_nilly:

This is my 1st post on this forum, I think the time is right.

I have a question and a statement. 1st the statement.

I think it is time we come "out of the closet" in a big way. How many successful people in the world smoke out?

I believe there are MANY jobs out there that positively influenced by stoners. I believe there many rich successful people are there out there that are stoners.

I think it is time we profile that. I think it is time that we in the marijuana smoking community, come together and show the world true stories of rich & successful stoners the world over. I think it is time we come together and promote creative interesting and fun jobs, to counter the demonizing propaganda of stoners being lazy and useless.


I personally know computer programmers, artists & NON-Marijuana industry ceo's who live by the weed.


So to my question,

Am I the only one that feels this way? and Is there a market for a magazine or publication that profiles successful stoners and provides a network for the community to search and post jobs in?

Would this be something that the stoner community would come out in support over? Is this something needed, right place right time?


Obviously any new business needs help from the community to grow, I am just wondering if this is the right time and place for something like this.

Your questions comments are greatly appreciated

flashdave

 

OMGZ nobody has ever thought of this before... It is the solution to all the worlds weed problems! Let's tell everyone that weed is OK!

Pizza guy is a good PO-THEED job

 

It's fun to think about, but in reality I just don't think it would be well accepted at this point. Not until medical marijuana becomes more accepted and then it is legalized on a wider scale. Even then there are going to be some hard heads who still think it's Devil Weed.

I was actually having this exact conversation with my anti-weed, practically straight-edge bf earlier today. About how random drug tests in the workplace are a waste of company time and resources, not to mention people who are otherwise great workers lose their jobs all because of an activity they chose to partake in outside their career that should not affect it in any way (in many cases at least - drug testing is understandable if you're fucking up or getting hurt constantly and you become a liability to the company but then it's not exactly random). Someone who is an excellent worker and tops at what they do can lose it all simply because they were randomly selected to piss in a cup to detect the presence of certain metabolites that have been deemed contraband for no logical reason.

It really is a shame that such harmful substances like alcohol and tobacco are legal and therefore generally are not punishable activities. But such a beneficial and nontoxic plant, a true gift from the earth that is safer and has more uses and benefits than most medicines out there today has been such a misunderstood and demonized part of society for so long. I can only hope that with medical progress and more scientific evidence and truth being made available, attitudes will start to change and marijuana will start to be accepted by the same people who think alcohol and tobacco are OK because they are legal...

 

you will always have those people that go by the law like it's the Word of God.

 

Yeah, I just hope that with time there will be less of them once THE LAW says it's "OK"

Baa-aaa...

 

It is happening, and in some states it is time to act. There is a wave that is happening. I am lucky, I live in southern cali. There are a few states that are looking at this cash cow as a savior. There are MANY spin off jobs happening right now.

 

Marijuana alters your perceptions. Marijuana is a psychedelic. The reason Marijuana is looked at differently from alcohol and tobacco is that very reason. Marijuana alters the mind and the way it functions. A person who has blazed long term as a very different mind from a non weed smoker.

Yes, weed is not like meth or other drugs. It does not cause crazy brain damage. but mentally wise weed does more to the brain than most people think.

I recommend you go read about the limbic system. it's the part of the brain that weed mainly alters strongly.

Many pot smokers are actually the most close minded people ever when it come to arguments about weed. Most pot smokers are convinced weed is harmless and their arguments to back that up are ridiculous.


If your a long term pot smoker your brain is jacked up you just prefer to have your brain that way.


Just think about it this way. Lots of Vietnam soldiers smoked weed. Weed enhances your emotions and the way your mind connects with the world. Therefor altering their minds in the state of mind that they were in during the war has left many of them mentally ill. Weed can enhance the way you pick up negative emotions and energy.

A person who lives in a dysfunctional home but smokes weed and say experiences some of the crazy events/drama that occurs can be a lot more venerable to mental illness. If that person did not smoke weed they would be a lot more safe mentally wise.

and some smokers that i'v known that have smoked from teen ages to like mid 40's and ended up quiting and have been sober for 2 or 3 years tell me they still feel funky and slow and kinda stoned even though it's been 2 or 3 years. so if your a long term smoker it leaves some kind of lingering affect on your brain.

 

stoner jobs though. I once saw a bunch of black Jaimacan dudes with dreads and rasta stuff on. Their job was a mowing lawn business.

 

Rugor, I don't think it was the pot that left Vietnam veterans mentally ill. call me crazy but I think it really had something to do with the violence and horrific acts of war they witnessed.

also not sure what youre trying to get at with the jamaican lawn business.

I know a successful middle age couple that smokes weed pretty regularly, yet they work 15 hour days and own a business thats worth over a million dollars.

I also know many pizza delivery people...that really is the ideal stoner job lol. But they're all responsible; they have children, mortgages. they aren't slackers.

 

I'm not really sure how this post is a pertinent reply to what I posted but I'll take a shot. Lol Marijuana is not a psychedelic. It is psychoactive, there's no doubt about that, but so is tobacco and alcohol. So is caffeine.

Maybe this is your round-about way of saying you don't agree with marijuana use in the workplace? I don't either. If legalized, I believe it should be treated like alcohol in regards to not getting fucked up AT work. I don't want to be in the cabin of a 747 as the pilot's toking up before take off, just like I wouldn't want to be in a plane that was piloted by a drunk.

You think long term/heavy drinkers don't experience permanent and radical changes (read: DAMAGE) to the brain, among many other organs? I'm failing to see why the way alcohol changes your brain is any "better" than weed. Alcohol changes your perception. It makes you think it's OK to beat your wife and kids. Whereas weed...? Makes music sound extra awesome?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that Vietnam Vets are fucked up with PTSD more in part to the fact that they were in a TRAUMATIC and violent war. Weed or no weed, Johnny ain't coming home the same as the day he left.

"Many pot smokers are actually the most close minded people ever when it come to arguments about weed. Most pot smokers are convinced weed is harmless and their arguments to back that up are ridiculous." Wow, now there's a legitimate, accredited, scientifically backed fact if I ever saw one.

I'll make you a deal, I'll go read up on the limbic system if you can locate the depths of your sphincter from whence you're pulling this crap

 

vietnam vets are crazy cuz they smoked weed in vietnam? That's an odd theory.

and some of the most quick-witted, intelligent, articulate people I know smoke weed every day

 

dude like the best full timest job ever is a FULL TIME STONER! am i right or am i right?!!??!!.........right?

 

Any altered state induces a type of situational conditioning.. (not exclusive to pot and vets)
The government conducted experiments using LSD as a way to accelerate the learning curve of trained reactive behaviors (teaching people new instincts as asinine as that sounds).
However the principle can be seen in any substance user particularly when you make the comparison of social and solitary users of drugs/alcohol ect..
Solitary users tend to invert under the influence social ones tend to extrovert.. They are conditioned by the situation that exists most often during their usage..

If someone only had sex while drunk, alcohol would eventually tend to make them horny...

 

You really had the BALLS to say that? I can't even respond to anything you say. That you can believe something that stupid...

"You know those war vets would be a lot happier if they didn't smoke weed" STFU

 

dude keep your personal family issues to yourself

 

It is likely that psychedelics played a part in our evolution, so using LSD to teach people new instincts doesn't really sound that asinine.

As for your other point...I'm not sure what your point is. What are you saying again? Pot is bad?

 

thank you Meliali and Sweet Blasphemy you are totally right.
My friends parents smoke weed all the time and her dad owns the ServePro business and is very wealthy...they just went to Hawaii this summer and they bought their daughter her OWN house just out of high school.

So i think weed is not bad like Rugor makes it out to be
The trama the Vietnam War soldiers faced is most likely due to the violence and events they witnessed....not weed

 

I have been smoking pretty regularly for about 30 years and so , and while I do enjoy lazing around the house smoking I very rarely have time for it. I do however smoke pretty much all day everyday, this includes work ( very small amounts ) I am considered by many people to be the best in my field in this area. I know many people that are successful and creative and considered by peers to be among the best in their fields. Whats the difference if someone maintains a balance in their life using weed, its alot better that going and getting a script from big pharma to keep yourself balanced.

 

i'm smarter because i smoke.

rugor, big fail posting that in a stoner thread. you won't get a good response.

 

You're really basing a lot of this on poor, dated data. THC is mostly stored in the hippocampus, but there's no real evidence it does diddly. Steroids like THC do impair emotional and cognitive function, but you have to have some kind of severe endocrine problem or consume so much you'd get a tummy ache long before you were permanently fuzzy-brained.

I consider my own field pretty challenging since I do clinicals in a nursing home and go to nursing school. I can honestly say I've never felt impaired by marijuana. All I have there is anecdotal evidence, and while I'd never go into school or work while under the influence of drugs (because it would alter my judgment), I will happily have my skills assessed with those of my peers.