I wouldn't use it if you paid me ... but that's also true of the legal drugs alcohol and tobacco, yet I support their legality as well.
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Really, I understand what you're getting at BUT I have actually worked with alcoholics, tobacco users and drug abusers. I'll take the alcoholics and smokers any day over NUTSY, spastic, hyper, paranoid enduced DRUG ABUSERS. Druggies are a flippin pain in the neck in the work environment. They're unreliable, constantly break things and have accidents on the job. When the drug starts wearing off mid morning they sneak off to nap it off. And when the clock rolls near the end of their shift they are so irritable and hateful because they're craving their next hit so badly that it effects their working abilities. I have never experienced such severe blatant problems with alcoholics or tobacco smokers. Keep druggies away from me, I can not stand to work with or around them. The liability out weighs everything.
Sounds just like alkies to me. And why should government ban ALL use of a substance because it makes SOME users bad workers? Staying up too late impairs one's work ... should government institute mandated bedtimes?
I know exactly what you mean. We have a few of these druggies where I work...they come in cranky, lethargic and irritable until they get their first caffeine fix of the day.
Then it's every hour after that, as they continue to maintain the optimum level of the drug in their system.
Before long, they are fully dosed, and become high strung and manic.
The other drug users are just as bad...they get their fixes on a more or less hourly basis as well.
At least I don't have to watch these nicotine junkies as they deliver the deadly drug to their bloodstream, sighing with pleasure and release as the addictive drug reaches their nicotine-starved brains. Our company banishes these fiends to the outdoors in order for them to get their fixes.
Yeah, those druggies are a pain in the ass alright.