Neither Snow Nor Rain ... But Pot Will Do a Postman In!

1. Vonskippy
   June 22nd, 2009 at 10:37 pm

   Luckily the legal drug Alcohol has never made anyone do anything irresponsible - so yeah for Pot laws.

2. Mytake
   June 22nd, 2009 at 11:04 pm

   Not surprising really, potheads are usually unproductive and somewhat burdensome to society.

3. ukanduit
   June 22nd, 2009 at 11:09 pm

   "He stopped delivering junk mail which some may say was a public service."

   That was certainly a public service!!

   I hate junk mail and the scum that send it to me.

4. Johnny Cat
   June 23rd, 2009 at 12:07 am

   It's like Brian said, "Chicks cannot hold the smoke." AND NEITHER CAN POSTAL EMPLOYEES.

5. mikos
   June 23rd, 2009 at 12:09 am

   Ehh... Cultivated 8,000lbs of pot?! That is A LOT of work! Does not seem to me that a lazy person would be pulling such a large scale operation. Strained for time maybe?

6. mikos
   June 23rd, 2009 at 12:10 am

   @Mytake: Any supporting research/evidence besides personal bios?

7. mikos
   June 23rd, 2009 at 12:11 am

   bias

8. lurky
   June 23rd, 2009 at 12:12 am

   What an idiot mailman, he could be getting in shape delivering mail while blazing up. Instead he goes ahead and burns people's mail, further ruining the reputation of law-abiding and hard working stoners everywhere. Oh yes, law-abiding and hard working.

9. esu
   June 23rd, 2009 at 1:30 am

   i'm pretty sure most cannibis growers smoke their own crops, but they aren't lazy, because if they were, who would grow cannibis?

10. Mytake
    June 23rd, 2009 at 2:18 am

    mikos: no. Circumstancial evidence since college is more than enough to me. But I am fairly sure there are more than a few studies that adequately factor in the costs of pot users to society. Why, do you think potheads are as useful to society as other people?

11. Mouserz
    June 23rd, 2009 at 7:10 am

    Its just pot, laziness depends on the person.

12. Paul2
    June 23rd, 2009 at 7:34 am

    8000 lbs = 128000 ounces, 20 years ago when i knew what pot went for that had to be worth at least many millions of dollars....I don't trust this story much

13. Jeff26
    June 23rd, 2009 at 8:44 am

    Sorry, but NO ONE is growing 8,000 pounds of weed in a bedroom in one year. Do your research before you post something so ridiculous.

14. Tim Giachetti
    June 23rd, 2009 at 8:51 am

    @ MYTAKE:

    It really depends on the person. You may have become a loathsome unwashed lazy git, but personally I never slowed down regardless of how much I smoked.

    I guess Obama is a slow reject too since he admitted to "inhaling alot".

15. Kang
    June 23rd, 2009 at 10:02 am

    I once read a news article about a drunk driver who killed a family of four. It's NOW A FACT that all drinkers of Alcohol are irresponsible people who have no consideration for human life.
    ....

    I love this site but the ignorance displayed about Marijuana on here is truly surprising.

    Some authors here on Neatorama really need to take one day and volunteer with Cures Not Wars and see the benefits of this plant.

    But I guess cancer and AIDS patients who use Marijuana to relieve their symptoms are only a bunch of lazy drug addicts who are a burden on society.

16. MadMolecule
    June 23rd, 2009 at 10:06 am

    Sounds a bit like the plot of this movie:

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118785/

    In which the main character is a lazy mailman who's throwing people's junk mail into a hole in a railroad tunnel.

17. PyRoeManiac
    June 23rd, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    I gotta call shenanigans here, 8000 lbs of cannabis, you would have to grow like 8000 plants...... In a bedroom? I thought neatorama was smarter than to spread government propaganda like this.....

    Please prove me wrong, I dont want to have to boycott Neatorama too.....

18. Jessi
    June 23rd, 2009 at 2:02 pm

    So one person got arguably lazy after smoking. Doesn't really scream "FACT" like the title of the article claimed. Many states are even now legalizing medical marijuana: http://tinyurl.com/l6fcnd

19. Idil
    June 23rd, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    It's the culture behind smoking pot that leads to the laziness, not the smoking pot itself...

20. Mytake
    June 23rd, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    Tim Giachetti, I never smoked pot in college or anywhere, I was talking about some of the people I had to endure there and later throughout my professional life.

    The problem with pot users is that they often lack self-awareness and seldom think of themselves as 1) addicted or 2) a burden, but they're usually both to some degree. And comparisons to alcoholics or to medicinal users are beside the point really.

21. Tim Giachetti
    June 24th, 2009 at 7:11 am

    You heard Mytake folks.
    Ignorance is bliss, and that makes mytake a very blissful person.

    I still call BS on you mt. Really must suck to be biased in such a way.

22. Juliana
    June 24th, 2009 at 9:37 am

    I completely agree with Mouserz: "Its just pot, laziness depends on the person." I know some fully functional potheads who go to work everyday and do their job as they were hired to do. Most drug abusers (other than pot) have never even tried pot. Their first drug was caffeine, alcohol or cigarettes - and those are all legal.

23. NeonCat
    June 24th, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    Truly, the only real measure of someone is how much they contribute to society.

    That's why I hate those lazy babies.

    And 8000 pounds?!? Could it be the writer of the article was confused and it was 8000 Pounds Sterling's worth?

24. Mytake
    June 24th, 2009 at 2:57 pm

    Tim Giachetti, you don't seem to be either thinking straight or reading correctly: I say pot users lack self-awareness. Those who do not take drugs tend to have a much lower opinion of potheads' contributions to society than the drug users' own assumptions. Can you contradict that?

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