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

By: Mytake

Mytake — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:57:42 +0000

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?

By: NeonCat

NeonCat — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:45:23 +0000

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?

By: Juliana

Juliana — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:37:05 +0000

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.

By: Tim Giachetti

Tim Giachetti — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:11:39 +0000

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.

By: Mytake

Mytake — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:55:46 +0000

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.

By: Idil

Idil — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:09:36 +0000

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

By: Jessi

Jessi — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:02:40 +0000

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

By: PyRoeManiac

PyRoeManiac — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:26:19 +0000

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.....

By: MadMolecule

MadMolecule — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:06:12 +0000

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.

By: Kang

Kang — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:02:14 +0000

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.

By: Tim Giachetti

Tim Giachetti — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:51:47 +0000

@ 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".

By: Jeff26

Jeff26 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:44:00 +0000

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.

By: Paul2

Paul2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:34:32 +0000

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

By: Mouserz

Mouserz — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:10:54 +0000

Its just pot, laziness depends on the person.

By: Mytake

Mytake — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:18:20 +0000

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?

By: esu

esu — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:30:14 +0000

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

By: lurky

lurky — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:12:04 +0000

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.

By: mikos

mikos — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:11:58 +0000

bias

By: mikos

mikos — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:10:42 +0000

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

By: mikos

mikos — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:09:18 +0000

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?

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:07:33 +0000

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

By: ukanduit

ukanduit — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:09:15 +0000

"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.

By: Mytake

Mytake — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:04:24 +0000

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

By: Vonskippy

Vonskippy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:37:32 +0000

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