Amazon’s answer to delivery driver shortage: Pot smokers

As long as they aren't impaired while on the job I really don't give AF.

 

Same. What someone does at home should be their business.

 

Is that why they’re always swerving all over the road? One almost hit me the other day

 

While I agree with the sentiment, there are two problems with implementing this in the real world:

1. There is no current test to determine how high a driver is or if they are impaired while operating a motor vehicle as there is with say, alcohol.

2. People ARE abusing the privilege:

IIHS found that the number of injury and fatal crashes in California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington rose considerably in the months following the relaxation of marijuana laws. In those states combined, there was a six-percent increase in injury crashes and a four-percent increase in fatal crash rates compared to other Western states where recreational marijuana use was illegal during the study period.

There's a noticeable difference in four-wheeler driving behavior in say I-5, where weed is legal in EVERY state along I-5, compared to I-80.

I would be shocked if the ATA wasn't figuring out a way to work the same angle.

 

Every box I get delivered from Amazon is either crushed, folded, or torn open already so I’d say they already been hiring potheads and tweekers but now just want to make it official policy.

The folks getting some food goods from Amazon may have some trouble getting their order due to all the drivers having the munchies.

 

Everybody smokes dope up here. Once it was legalized about 4 or 5 years ago I was suprised to find out just how many were into it. I'm probably in the tiniest minority of folks who've never tried it lol.

 

This thing about weed is just a red herring. Unless a person is literally strung out on weed they are NOWHERE NEAR as dangerous as some idiot yacking on a cell phone or texting. I don't necessarily agree with what I think is the political agenda behind this change of policy! I think this subject should be taken on a case-by-case basis.

 

It’s funny how paranoid people in the States are about it. I’ve been friends on social media with a girl from Newfoundland for a couple years, she had a government job doing maintenance in the summer and plowing snow in the winter, and she smokes every day after work.

 

Kudos to her they get heavy snow over there and drivers try stupid stuff around plows. It’s not uncommon to hear a transport had a head on with the plow.

 

Oh you’re the one. Just a personal choice Ya, we never crowed about it…we all knew who partook and who didnt. I had plants growing through the roof of my shed years ago…now it just in garden off the deck, and then there’s “Beaker” always curious about the plants health and welfare