Tech companies grapple with workers smoking weed on the job

It’s legal in Canada under similar age restrictions as alcohol. I would think companies can deal with (over)usage of either in terms or job performance or lack thereof. Hard to meet deadlines drunk off your ass or sitting there with in a gadda da vida on repeat. Smoke outside and don’t offend those working in your vicinity and things should be fine.

I used to be pro-legalization but it was a total bait and switch. Weed has become completely normalized now. I’ll be walking around DC with my kids in the middle of the day and everything will reek of weed. (I thought the smell was sewer gas until my wife pointed it out.)

I am part of the 26% that has done this, although in the past few weeks I have finally found some momentum in changing this habit.<p>For me, it felt as though the content of my work is what drove me to do this. Building CRUD applications, refactoring legacy code, writing exhaustive tests, etc were all things that I would get stoned for, saving things like writing design docs and meetings for the non-stoned days. Combine this with a decade of using cannabis to make mundane tasks more interesting in my personal life (playing a video game I have already logged 1K+ hours in, watching a TV show I have seen 10x times, washing dishes, etc) and it&#x27;s easy to see how I got to this point. The reality of adult life and software engineering as a career is that a lot of it is just boring. Now, whether or not smoking pot actually fixed that boredom is a different question...

Yet lots of tech companies have unlimited beer on tap. It is time to end this ridiculous double standard.

You don&#x27;t have to be stoned to work here.... but it helps.

This article is based on a nonscientific data collection from Blind gossip.<p>There is no epidemic of working while high.

<i>heavy</i> smoker. I have a negative ion generator air filter near my desk and really helps keep the smell and sediments within the room.<p>Now that people are paying attention to ventilation, there&#x27;s an upside: If you can smell my smoke its less likely any of my other emanations or exhalations will trouble you.