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I never would smoke pot at work. Not for any moral reason, I just feel that doing drugs* at work is as lame as doing them with your parents.

*I consider alcohol a drug.

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Medical use of any drug is not "lame" when it's helping someone. I think the phrase you're looking for is "getting inebriated at work for fun is lame".

It's "lame" if it makes you feel like garbage at work. Responsibility is annoying when you're stoned, and it doesn't get less annoying if the pot cures your epilepsy.

What about getting jittery from too much coffee or sleepy from antihistamines? You can apply the same logic, doesn't stop people from overcoming it

For some it's simply a coping mechanism, to survive the boredom of normal; for others it's medication to deal with chronic pain.

It's not that different from alcohol really, though definitely more healthy and less socially destructive.

But we have a messed up relationship with all drugs, it's all mixed up with religious bullshit and shame.

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