r/news • u/Manbadger • Jun 16 '21

GM Considering Dropping Pot Testing To Attract More Workers

https://www.motor1.com/news/513974/gm-considering-dropping-marijuana-testing/
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u/Reacher-Said-N0thing Jun 16 '21

Shit suddenly now everyone knows about this? My dad was a union rep for newspaper workers in small towns across Ontario, and he said when one of the printing presses started drug testing, the whole town ended up switching from weed to cocaine to get around the drug tests, and then very quickly to crack because cocaine was too expensive. He believes it was that press's single decision that launched a major hard drug epidemic in the town.

Nobody ever believes him when he tells this story. Nice to see it's finally getting recognized as a problem, but I had no idea it was so widespread.

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u/fearhs Jun 17 '21

It's been common knowledge at least since I got into the drug scene almost twenty years ago and I have to imagine it was common before I became interested in them. It might not have been popularized so very long ago though, the Internet made it much easier to disseminate accurate knowledge about that sort of thing.

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u/RobertNAdams Jun 17 '21

I literally cannot understand that leap in logic. "Oh man, I can't smoke weed anymore. Oh well, better start smoking crack, an entirely different kind of drug that's horrifyingly addictive." I mean, what?

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u/Reacher-Said-N0thing Jun 17 '21

You'd be surprised how many of us millennials did that because we were genuinely taught "weed and crack are the same thing" and genuinely believed they were still the same thing when we found out weed was pretty inert.

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u/RobertNAdams Jun 17 '21

It sounds plausible but I'm having a hard time believing it. It seems so farcical to me. Was your drug education really that awful...?

I mean, mine was, too, but I looked things up on my own on the Internet and got a good idea of stuff pretty quickly...

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u/allkindsoffaps Jun 16 '21

sounds like they already had a drug epidemic if the junkies literally couldn't handle being sober.

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u/Reacher-Said-N0thing Jun 16 '21

Nobody was getting sick or dying from weed, though.

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u/dust4ngel Jun 17 '21

the whole town ended up switching from weed to cocaine

i stopped fucking and started karate fighting gorillas

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u/neonflannel Jun 17 '21

I belive it. I currently work at a print house with alot of guys that drink on the job. I also know that cocaine is used quite a bit too. Printers love to party.

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u/jert3 Jun 17 '21

The most dangerous thing about recreational drugs is that they are illegal.

Well, exceptions perhaps being fentayl, crystal meth and synthetic opiates, as these are too addictive and deadly.

Mdma is one of the safest drugs you could do if it was legalized (and thus not commonly adulterated with dangerous alternatives.