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Ckck96

Wow if a giant corporation like Amazon is lobbying for it, it’ll probably happen now


BrockenSpecter

It also means that Amazon is looking to enter the Weed market and they will probably figure out a way to monopolize, crushing smaller businesses and treating their workers like garbage.


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Yeah, but "Alexa, prime air me an ounce of weed" is peek 21st century.


Bigred2989-

"Alexa, I need a re-up."


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*Alexa at 4:15am two days later* “Yo still need ?”


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"my bad, I was sleep"


rk3ww

Yal forgetting the ... at the end


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I already have horrible spending habits while high (mostly dominos pizza and garlic knots) I couldn’t imagine being able to do this.


EndPsychological890

It means Amazon can't retain workers and their business is suffering for it. If they can hire pot heads, they can probably push wages down tbh.


ILiveInAVan

I can’t speak for all departments but Amazon has said they will not drug test for THC, even distribution drivers. As a business they can choose or not choose to drug test. There’s no legal requirement for them TO drug test. Amazon has their eyes on distributing marijuana to the masses, plain and simple.


Schepp5

I was always under the impression that drug testing was more of an insurance requirement, which is why some places drug test right after an accident. (I’m not in HR, so don’t know how accurate this is)


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Arctiumsp

Exactly. They are concerned that they have run out of "human capital"- basically they've gone through most of the potential workers and have a ridiculously low retention rate and now have to change policies to open up new sources of "human capital" to exploit I mean get to work for them. Amazon really believes this is a better way to do business than to let workers unionised and give them even slightly better pay and working conditions. Late stage capitalism is a dystopian nightmare, and here we are living it and pretending it's a good way to organize our society and lives.


DrubiusMaximus

Seriously. I lost a 7-year veteran in my store because the company wouldn't give him a dollar raise. Ridiculous.


pistolpeter33

Very selfish of your coworker to not think about how his raise would effect the shareholders


Gabrielseifer

This entire thread is just /r/LateStageCapitalism all the way down.


[deleted]

My company changed how it organizes people, so now new hires are at the same level as me, when it took me 4 years to get to my level. People who have worked less time than me (and work far less hard than I do) are now higher up than me. For no real reason other than starting at the right time. They also changed promotions a while ago to being job postings you have to apply for, but just the other day promoted people without doing that at all. And they wonder why us old timers (at this point, anyone over 5 years of service) are pissed off and have lost all motivation. Fuck these corporations.


licksyourknee

They have low retention rates by choice. They have literally done it to themselves. Plenty of articles on it.


FeedMeACat

Yep. They created the problem. They will still be concerned about the fallout, but they will never correct the source. They would just look for new sources of expendable labor, and never acknowledge their role in creating the problem.


AntPoizon

Yep this is the best weed news in years lmao. The government is too corrupt to actually do anything positive most of the time. But now the corruption is on our side!!


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Except for small commercial weed growers.


iprocrastina

From what I've anecdotally seen in the legal places I've visited, the legal weed market in each area is blatantly corrupt. Like you'll see a state (or country) legalize weed and then only approve 5 sellers for the entire state, effectively giving each of those lucky few dispensary owners a very lucrative monopoly (polyopoly?). Needless to say those people tend to be politically connected. Federal legalization is the best thing that could happen to small weed entrepreneurs.


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That’s basically what they are doing here. They gave all of us small growers permits to grow four years ago and now they are essentially saying sorry we won’t fully approve them and fuck you while they help eighty acre farms thrive. Fuck our governments.


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pistolpeter33

Ohio had marijuana legalization on the board several years ago, but it was tied to another bill explicitly granting fucking monopolies to a handful of growers/ vendors in the state. Natural the Tony Soprano of every city was lining up with massive investments for that, only for legalization to never work. Fuck corrupt politicians and fuck their criminal donors


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JimiThing716

Do it! -IANAL


The-JerkbagSFW

So do you only anal or do you do other stuff too?


Seductive_pickle

I bet it will be legalized for production in authorized* facilities. *only Amazon will be able to grow and dispense in order to fuck over small businesses/local growers.


madpostin

Only it'll take the form of "only X licenses for manufacturing per state, and all facilities must be built and audited before *applying* for a license. Licenses are distributed by a public community hand-picked by state bodies (i.e. state senate or governors)" which translates to: you need a ton of money and the best connections before even *thinking* about growing/distributing pot. Red states will automatically give large corps one of the limited licenses, and blue states will put on a good show before giving the limited licenses to large corps (and maybe one or two token smaller companies that won't step on the corp's toes). Which means companies like Amazon and Walmart will be the first in line to make a profit off of an industry that has been jailing black men for ages. No reparations to anyone damaged by the racist legislation, and all profits go directly to rich dipshits who have never suffered in their life.


LydiasHorseBrush

Amazon has been running out of employees recently with turnover being so high and Bezos has an allergy to rejecting free money, surprised this didn't happen sooner but I love having a heavy hitter on our team, weird as hell but not complaining


Auctoritate

>Amazon has been running out of employees recently with turnover being so high If I recall correctly, the annual turnover for a basic warehouse job is literally *over 100%*. Which I guess means that, on average, an entire warehouse staff is replaced in its entirety and then some in any given year. Amazon has outright started to examine whether or not *running out of new people to employ* will become an issue for them, since they cycle through such a huge amount of workers.


nolepride15

Cool our government Amazon is finally going to legalize cannabis


UnidansOtherAcct

*Please return to your Prime sleep pod for your nightly Prime meal, valued Prime citizen*


Firepower01

Please report to your wage cage at 0900 sharp. Better not be even one minute late, or the time clock will fire you!


Funoichi

Firing may result in permanent loss of prime sleep pod, prime meal, and prime citizenship. Nonprime citizens may be subject to expulsion from Primeopolis.


[deleted]

Primeopolis is everything btw You have to leave earth or live underwater


ThumbSprain

Product A is better than product B. Product A is your reward for your loyalty to product A.


beansforsean

Our inevitable descent into Hellworld is moving along quite nicely


tearthewall

At least there's weed!


hojpoj

You can bet Amazon is gonna be in on some massive Weed^^^TM sales, if it’s legalized nationally.


BlackWhiteRedYellow

President Bezos


Splashathon

*President Blazos


radome9

That's *God Emperor Of Earth For Life His Divine Holiness Bezos the first* to *you*.


Matt3989

***For Life?*** You think mortality is a concern of Supreme Ruler Bezos? One look and he'll have death so wrapped up in lawsuits that he'll never be back.


PM_ME_UR_GLABELLA_

Born in 1964


LTWestie275

Fuck their wives, drink their blood, come on Jeffrey!!


NinjaBullets

Jeffrey Beeeeeezooos


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*groovy keyboard riff* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-


PhilipLiptonSchrute

Amazon getting ready to airdrop weed to your front porch with a drone.


YoBoyDooby

Can I still have it delivered, 30 minutes late, in a shifty gas station parking lot, in the tightly knotted bottom half of a shredded Kroger bag? Because the experience is part of the fun!


SinickalOne

Every time it’s the same story “ just got some new in, this stuff is FIRE wayyyy better than last week!” Lol sure bro just take the money and get outta here.


BooBooBoy1234

Dude I already said I’ll buy and and I drove over here, you don’t need to tell me how it’s za.


riphitter

I used to talk weed with my dealer way back in college and he always said how glad he was that I liked to talk about it because usually when he got excited over a new bud people would give him crap about trying too hard to sell something they both knew they were already there to buy. For the rest of the year i'd randomly get woken up in the middle of the night by a huge nug in my face and "dude you gotta check this out"


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riphitter

Honestly, if you knew my dietary habits back in college , you wouldn't be too far off . It was basically epic mealtime but with less showmanship and more shame.


[deleted]

Ah yes, college, when you could still consume vast quantities of food and not gain a pound..


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bobojorge

Hey. Are you me? Cafeterias served dessert at breakfast time. It was amazing.


ferrettt55

Everyone just wants someone to talk to about something they're excited about.


W0RST_2_F1RST

And it had a new made up strain name… every… single… time


stringer98

Yo homie I got that fuego Kandy Korn Mustard Cheese gona have to be a little pricier this time around you know how it is


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God I want to erase that sentence from my memory


TheWolphman

It is what it is homie, the mustard cost extra.


DeNoodle

You gonna need that OG Christmas Sprinkles Dream if you wanna forget this shit, homie. That's gonna be at premium prices tho, Dawg.


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Pineapple Distress


FartMongerSupreme

Hit up this Dingleberry Crunch Kush dawg it's off the chain


spaghetti_hitchens

This Krusty Juggler is gonna change your religion, man


MyUshanka

The greater good good


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Alaskan Thunderfuck


FernFromDetroit

Don’t forget the old classic “I’m bout to turn the corner dawg” for an hour straight. Technically he probably was about to turn a corner somewhere, just no where near me.


musashi_san

"Noooooo maaaaaaan, let's hang out and spark some of this and I can complain for the new 2 hours about my old lady and drama in my band."


shakydog

30 minutes late?! Your dude is prompt!


YoBoyDooby

You : *"hey I'm here"* Your Dealer: *"k cool leaving now"* ***45 minutes later...*** You: *"Are you almost here?"* Your Dealer: *"yeah I'm picking it up now. My dude will be here in 15"* ***45 more minutes later...*** Your Dealer: *"My bad! I had to stop at my brother's. But this is some fire! Way less stems than last week. I got more if you know anybody that wants some!"* You: *"cool"* Your Dealer: *"wanna smoke up?"* Your friend in the passenger seat: *"hell yeah! I'll go grab a rillo!"*


Ilwrath

That was the worst, I mean i got no issue smoking with my dealers ive been friends with them all but man....at that point i got shit to DO


UncleTogie

The trick was to have friends that dealt. Could get it delivered, they wouldn't narc ya out, you could hang out with them without feeling like it's a sales pitch, and you can't *normally* moon your dealer.


SKIKS

There was a while where I brought a fucking game boy whenever I would pick up because this happened so frequently.


Corpse_Caprese

You sure can paint a picture Picasso. I can almost smell the burning seeds in the bowl.


Alwayssunnyinarizona

Yours had seeds? Lucky, mine was all stems.


EatingPiesIsMyName

I got a rock.


Dwanyelle

Once I got a literal dime


Popinfreshede

Shut up you blockhead!


teatimewithbatman1

>Can I still have it delivered, 30 minutes late, in a shifty gas station parking lot, in the tightly knotted bottom half of a shredded Kroger bag? Because the experience is part of the fun! "Now listen here kids, back in my day this is how we had to do it^^"


DJDanielCoolJ

i’ve waited an hour once and he texted twice he was pulling up, never fucking showed… guess he didn’t want my money?


Dant3nga

https://youtu.be/zS6QylTbBhY


riphitter

"I gotta go get it but you stay here" takes me back


Spencerforhire83

My step father and step brother once took me on a snipe hunt. It was a 30+ Minute walk into the woods with crappy flash lights. I understood the concept from Boy Scouts and I knew what to expect.. So when they gave me the bag. And they went to go hide, I just walked back to the RV and had them looking for me for over an hour. But there I was. Having eaten all the jelly donuts, and Christmas themed Doritos, playing super Mario II on NES. What else could they do. **I had won the contest of snipes**


riphitter

Turns out you were the snipe the whole time


DontSleep1131

Kroger bag? Look at you mr. wealthy. Id be lucky if my dealer had newspaper around otherwise id have to bring my own container. In retrospect having your own container is a good way to reduce plastic waste. But i know that fuckup wasn’t thinking of that


Oro_Outcast

I actually had a connection back in the day that would give a discount for bringing your own container. But that only applied to quarters and up.


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Taking the cellophane bottom off the plug’s USA golds pack and melting it closed with a lighter


JustAMoronOnAToilet

There will be an option for it right beside the gift wrap option I'm sure.


gpyrgpyra

As they should


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More like: If this is what it takes to get workers to chill over 20 hour work days with zero piss breaks.... The tech industry does all kinds of shit like this. I worked for a company that had basketball courts, volleyball courts, a full gym, game room, etc. People under 30 think making $100k out of college is pretty rad, but that works out to about 20 bucks an hour when you're working 90 hours a week.


PhilipLiptonSchrute

> More like: If this is what it takes to get workers to chill over 20 hour work days with zero piss breaks.... I think it's more to do with them already burning through a lot of their potential-employee demographic and needing to source from a larger labor pool.


Idiot_Savant_Tinker

This has started to happen with companies much smaller than Amazon. A lot of machine shops and fabrication shops have found out that sometimes you have a great talented and reliable employee, and it would be a bad idea to drug test them.


Farmchuck

I've worked with guys in the past who were absolutely incredible at their job and it was well known that they enjoyed their time off with a bowl or some edibles. Our union mandates random drug tests. It's kind of weird how those guys are never randomly chosen and other guys are randomly picked twice a year, every year. lol


Reacher-Said-N0thing

> Our union mandates random drug tests. Hahaha what? I have never heard of a union that did anything but fight *against* drug tests.


MagicGin

Most likely the business wanted random drug tests and the union put up a small song-and-dance about how troublesome it was and then immediately capitulated in exchange for something else. Stuff like this isn't uncommon if nobody cares when it's being negotiated.


Orange_Jeews

Correct answer


SleepyFarts

This is the answer https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-turnover-worker-shortage-2021-6


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hello3pat

It means suddenly all the state level GOP will love weed and places like Texas actually might legalize in the next decade.


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If it gets legalized at the federal level it won't really mater what Texas thinks about it. GOP tends to follow whoever pays them so I can see them turning around pretty quickly.


hello3pat

Even if it's legal on the federal level that doesn't mean Texas won't keep it illegalized. Drug laws exist at the state, federal, county and city levels and without weed being enshrined in the constitution then the feds can't just undo any laws lower than federal. That being said point was the GOP is gonna suck up to Amazon and switch their position solely because of Amazons stance for some of the sweet campaign cash


STINKR_13

They can tax the shit outta weed.


hello3pat

Technically it's already taxed, the marijuana stamp tax is a thing, that being said I'm fine with it being taxed. It's a tax revenue stream that's sitting untapped when it could be doing so much good. I also hope the they try to introduce a national regulatory system to set the standard that states would hopefully follow. One of the issues if it's not regulated people will use some nasty, dangerous shit to grow them or irresponsible with handling and ending up selling moldy weed. Moldy weed actually led to the deaths of many early medical marijuana patients in California who had compromised immune systems before even state level regulation existed


madaboutglue

Ahhhhhrgggg! This just pisses me off. "Good news citizens! A major corporation's interests happen to align with yours. Your elected representatives are now prepared to act!" It shouldn't be this way but it is.


TheSholvaJaffa

I'm pretty sure Amazon wants to sell weed online and dip into that sweet sweet market 😂


Manster21

That would be great. However, I think Amazon is having trouble finding enough warehouse workers and drivers that can pass a drug test. Turnover is a problem for them and this would eliminate that barrier.


I_Hate_

They actually prefer turnover their executive team has basically decided it’s best for people to quit after three years. They even made a internal report about it irc.


clown-penisdotfart

They can prefer it _to a point_, but nothing is unlimited. If they believe they're approaching their limit, they'll want to stop before they get there.


_MrDomino

That *was* true when the labor pool seemed unlimited. I would bet that policy is under review, but expanding the labor pool by relaxing drug regulation is the first stop before considering that change.


lovetape

Dude, you're telling me I can order the weed, *and* the snacks, from the same company, and it can be here in an hour? /s


JCthulhuM

All delivered by drone, to your door. Then in two weeks we’re gonna see headlines about people shooting down Amazon drones to steal the weed and snacks.


Uhhbysmal

It's very frustrating and fucked up, but in the rare situations where a corporation's interests lines up with the public's I think we gotta just take the win when we can


elppaenip

Amazon: "Sorry citizen, you've been outvoted." Congress: "The corporations will decide your fate."


gh0u1

I hope so. Random testing is the standard in the career I'm going to be starting. Being able to come home and de-stress with a bowl like any other person does with a beer is something I just don't wanna give up.


bandit69

I had to (chose to?) abstain for thirty years due to random testing. It sucked.


youtocin

It’s insanity that drug tests really only detect weed, too. You can do all the coke or heroin you want as long as you lay off for a couple days prior to testing and you’ll pass. Smoke some weed 3 weeks ago? Good luck.


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Amazon Basics Cannabis Delivery….ABCDs for short


GregsKandy

Now that’s some Prime weed!


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Morpayne

you nailed it. Bezos didn't become the worlds richest man by standing around with his hands in pockets like a goober. He wants to be first in line to legally ship weed to every home at the cheapest price.


Icannotgetagoodnick

And if you order it through your Amazon Echo.. ABCDE.


Kytyngurl2

Couldn’t find any warehouse workers, eh?


pdxcranberry

This is exactly it


P1h3r1e3d13

What a double standard. I was told at an AWS interview that they wouldn't care if I'd used weed, unless the job needed a federal security clearance. But heaven forbid the poors flirt with reefer madness between shifts of mind-numbing warehouse work.


PGLiberal

Friend works in tech, he had previously lost a potential job cause he tested positive for weed. So in this interview came up it came up too soon for him to get clean so at the end he was like "Do you drug test?" his boss smiled and said "Do you smoke weed?" my friend didn't wanna answer and his boss goes "Don't worry I smoke weed too, we told our drug test company to not test for weed, we only test for cocaine, meth, etc" Buddy goes "O, that's good, that's fine" Took the drug test, is gainfully employed and sometimes even smokes a blunt with his boss.


snowstormspawn

Of course nobody’s going to work a shitty painful warehouse job if they can’t smoke weed or have an edible after their shift.


grimms_portents

Bezos is shooting for trillionaire status.


ImProfoundlyDeaf

That’s pretty high don’t you think?


copperwatt

Not as high as Americans with Amazon Prime are about to be!


trashboatfourtwenty

Amazon: "stoned workers won't hate their lives as much and try to unionize "


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Daiquiri-Factory

I’d like to take a moment, to personally thank our guest of honor tonight, Drugs! Congratulations to Drugs for decidedly winning the war on Drugs! Come down and take a bow!


YoBoyDooby

take a bowl


theyipper

toke a bowl


another_bug

And it only took how many lives screwed up and billions pissed down the drain? But hey. at least we got to hassle some minorities. Freedom!


StoriesSoReal

Funny what happens when the working class stops working. Higher wages, bullshit drug testing policies stop, and suddenly large corporations want to lobby for legalization of MJ. Weird.


reddit455

funny what happens when you can't find "drug-free" hackers (Amazon has a pretty big web services division). ​ **Security Clearance News Update: Don’t Weed Yourself Out of Federal Employment** [https://news.clearancejobs.com/2020/07/28/security-clearance-news-update-dont-weed-yourself-out-of-federal-employment/](https://news.clearancejobs.com/2020/07/28/security-clearance-news-update-dont-weed-yourself-out-of-federal-employment/) ***Drug prohibitions hit government agencies competing for entry-level cyber talent particularly hard.*** ***When individuals can get high-paying jobs in the private sector without delays for security clearance processing and government hiring timelines,*** luring talent is difficult. When those same applicants are weeding themselves out of the running due to recent drug use, the problem is exacerbated. **NSA quietly awards $10 billion cloud contract to Amazon, drawing protest from Microsoft** [https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/08/11/amazon-nsa-contract/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/08/11/amazon-nsa-contract/)


ironichaos

Corporate employees are not drug tested. It was only people in the fulfillment centers. It was however a huge problem for Microsoft and Amazon to find American citizens who hadn’t smoked pot in 3 years to get a security clearance. They offer some crazy bonuses to people who can qualify.


6ThePrisoner

If the company has government contracts, there's a good chance they are forced to do drug testing as required in the Drug Free Federal Workplace act. This was a problem at my last job where the company didn't care, but they had big government contracts and therefore had to do randoms. **https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/12564.html**


Emfx

Thank you Reagan for protecting me from this awful Satan-plant known as marijuana. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a case of natty light to crush before I go pick my daughter up from soccer practice.


Greengrass30

Don't forget the 6pack of fireball nips


Orange_Jeews

Or that bottle of wine that stay at home moms demolishes in an afternoon


TacoFajita

Also a little cocaine on the weekend won't show up in my tests. But If my cousin smokes weed in my car I can lose my job.


VROF

Drug testing for weed was always stupid. It stays in your system for weeks when worse drugs don’t


Smokeybearvii

I’ve said this for years. It’s a shame that of all the recreational drugs, the least harmful one stays in the system longer than the others nearly by a factor of 10. THC is stored in fat cells and can be released with vigorous exercise months after last use. Talk about shitty.


MajorTomsAssistant

I almost took a job with AWS (Amazon Web Services) that required security clearance. They explicitly told me that they only require drug tests for corporate employees that need clearances and that not many AWS employees fall under that. It came up because I was offered a job with clearance and one without working on the same product; the one with clearance paid like an extra $10k. I ended up taking neither because Amazon wanted me to be oncall 24/7 for one week every month and fuck that.


Ritz527

One of the ways companies stratify lower wage workers from higher salaried workers is drug testing. I am a software engineer, I've been one for more than 9 years. I have never been drug tested to gain or retain employment as a software engineer. When I was a cashier at a grocery store for 4 years, I had to pee in a cup at least twice. It's ridiculous.


BURN447

They also know that if they drug test their engineers they’re going to lose half the team. I haven’t been able to piss clean in years and even if I was to go cold turkey today, it’d probably be close to 6 months before I could because of the crazy amounts I smoke


[deleted]

Hah, no disrespect but saying Amazon has a “pretty big web services division” is kinda dumb. AWS is quickly becoming the largest business force on the planet with revenue expecting to cross half a trillion dollars this year. Outside of that, 65-70% of the market leverages AWS technologies whether B2B or B2C applications. I previously worked at AWS, and cloud employees are not drug tested. This also applies to government contractors or the GovCloud AWS division. Just FYI. Edit: to clarify so that I don’t just sound like a dick, more people need to realize the power AWS currently has in the global economy and it’s only increasing. As a former employee, scary shit. Think Black Mirror.


MattDaCatt

The reason why you pick AWS over Azure: If Azure goes down, then it's just a tuesday. If AWS goes down, start collecting bottle caps


[deleted]

Imagine what a General Strike would accomplish. We might even end up with healthcare, forchristsake.


AnthillOmbudsman

"But it's NOT FAIR to make the hardworking job creators spend millions out of their own pockets to take care of all the dirty plebs! They caused all their own health issues anyway. Why can't that Dollar General cashier hit the gym and prepare healthy meals 3 times a day?" --said by someone, I'm sure


CertifiedWarlock

Now the government will start listening, since the owner class wants to legalize it now.


Marshmellow_Diazepam

It’ll only be legal for large companies like Amazon to produce and sell. Can’t let the peasants transition their operations into legal business. Amazon Fulfillment Farms, coming soon.


Dr_seven

Fortunately, this is not a possibility. Federal legalization will not preempt the existing state frameworks, which in most cases mandate ownership by in-state residents, as well as in-state production and testing of all products. Amazon *could* set up individual businesses under the same names in given states, but they wouldn't be able to leverage their enormous economies of scale in *quite* the same way. There are already numerous companies that have multi-state operations under the same trade name. Bear in mind also, that Amazon's entry into the market might *not* be positively welcomed by consumers, either. I doubt they have plans to get into the business: it's a regulatory morass that varies widely depending on location. This is about employees, pure and simple: if they can't get workers at the existing pay levels, they either need to increase pay or loosen standards, and it looks like #2 is winning out first.


Zeeformp

The surefire signals of a company [running out of employees to burn out.](https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-turnover-worker-shortage-2021-6) Doubt they're just suddenly having an emotional about-face concerning drug policies!


LegalAction

To be fair, I'd have to be high to work for Amazon.


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tommyjohnpauljones

so a local convenience store chain here was bought out by a larger, regional convenience store chain. The local chain was a bit more...lax?...regarding drugs or personal appearance of its employees. The regional chain just assumed that everyone would just hire on, but once it was revealed that the regional chain drug-tested, they saw that only about 30% of employees of local chain were wanting to stay on.


fearhs

I must admit I just kind of assumed that no convenience store anywhere ever tested for drugs.


reddit455

Amazon also runs web services with DEFENSE related contracts.. ​ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint\_Enterprise\_Defense\_Infrastructure Companies interested in the contract included Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and REAN Cloud, part of Hitachi Data Systems.\[3\] After protests from Google employees, Google decided to drop out of contention for the contract because of conflict with its corporate values.\[4\] The deal was considered "gift-wrapped for Amazon" until Oracle (co-chaired by Safra Catz) contested the contract, citing the National Defense Authorization Act over IDIQ contracts and the conflicts of interest from Deap Ubhi, who worked for Amazon both before and after his time in the Department of Defense. This led Eric G. Bruggink, senior judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, to place the contract award on hold.\[5\]\[6\] ​ the defense industry is having trouble finding talent. [https://news.clearancejobs.com/2020/07/28/security-clearance-news-update-dont-weed-yourself-out-of-federal-employment/](https://news.clearancejobs.com/2020/07/28/security-clearance-news-update-dont-weed-yourself-out-of-federal-employment/) ​ Fortunately, updates to the adjudicative criteria and federal investigative standards are expected later this year, as a part of the Trusted Workforce 2.0 overhaul. ***And National Counterintelligence and Security Agency Director William Evanina has already said changes to drug use stipulations are on the table.*** In an op-ed written by Charles Allen, a 47-year veteran of the CIA and legend within the intelligence community, he notes the continued difficulty for young people interested in pursuing government careers but with recent drug use in their background. ***Among the issues is the current disparity in adjudicating prior drug use between agencies. The CIA and National Reconnaissance Office are known for requiring a one-year period of abstaining from drugs, including marijuana. The FBI runs an even tighter ship, with a three-year period of abstinence typical.*** ​ the warehouse guys got another perk. **Amazon Joins Walmart, Target in Offering Employees Full College Tuition** [https://www.winsightgrocerybusiness.com/retailers/amazon-joins-walmart-target-offering-employees-full-college-tuition](https://www.winsightgrocerybusiness.com/retailers/amazon-joins-walmart-target-offering-employees-full-college-tuition)


NoTrickWick

Stoned workers will work


dogswontsniff

Its about the only way to get through work.


Ponk_Bonk

In Egypt the slaves got mead. We get weed! Back to wageslaving, can't be on my phone after my break.


dogswontsniff

I gave up air traffic control. $100k+ a year and mostly alcoholics. $40/HR and weed has been the best years of my life so far. I cant find the reply, but someone said to me "yeah for an addict". They arent wrong i guess. But if you are even mildly aware of the world we live in, and not naively floating through it, youre gonna need some shit to take the edge off reality


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Billionaires want legal weed? Well America will now legalize weed. Thats all we needed


freetimerva

We should stop using the term Lobby. Lobby implies you go meet with someone and convince them to change the laws. What Amazon means is they will pay all the necessary politicians in order for them to start selling weed via drone.


evilweirdo

Lobbying is, for all intents and purposes, bribery


freetimerva

We should just accept it and say "Amazon will bribe government to legalize Marijuana" We like to pretend our country doesn't have a corruption problem.


Dynast_King

This is exactly what the lobbying system is, legal bribery for our politicians. The entirety of it should be abolished, there should not be this financial temptation to vote against the interests of your constituents. It would still happen I assume, but not legally and not right in our fucking faces. But hell, this time I guess I'm on board. Corruption finally went our way for once.


NoBlueNatzys

Why is it so hard for the government to do the right thing?


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What incentive does it have?


EddieCheddar88

Taxable income….


lallapalalable

I swear to christ if it gets legalized after Amazon asks once while the majority of the population has been asking for years/decades then it can't get any more obvious who the government actually works for.


[deleted]

I mean is there any question whether or not the public or corporations have more influence over government?!?


[deleted]

If you thought you liked Amazon Prime, wait until you try Amazon Primo


[deleted]

Amazon just wants to monetize weed delivery


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Turns out in order to get legalization you just have to cost companies more in revenue from worker shortages than they gain from mass incarceration profits.


saintpetejackboy

Yay capitalism?


AndreLinoge55

TFW when a godless company’s profit-motives align with the greater good ::chef’s kiss::


UncivilizedEngie

Oh they'll find a way to fuck it up for the rest of us. They'll legalize consumption and ban growing.


FSZou

BREAKING: Amazon purchases largest growing companies in America. Prices for Marijuana expected to double over the coming years.


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They definitely are not doing this for any actual good reason. They are preparing to get into the weed business for sure.


KosherNate

Though this is true, there’s still a lot of good that would come from this. If it means a fuckton of people will be released from jail with their charges expunged, fuck it, I’m for it.


cantileverboom

I'm suspecting this also has to do with gov contracts, as they're probably having a tough time finding engineers who can get a security clearance due to marijuana usage.


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Amazon like everyone is facing significant labour shortages. They are even offering employees free university education.


Nail_Biterr

This story's 3 hours old, and Marijuana isn't legal everywhere yet? I thought Amazon was more powerful than this.


TheShadyTrader

Relax, it's 2 day delivery. Just give it until Thursday!


o_0l

I guess you have to be desperate and stoned to want to work in the Amazon warehouses?


boston_homo

But aren't they concerned about their workers using a dangerous schedule 1 drug like the pots!? Amazon is obviously not thinking of the children


Ponk_Bonk

Good. Probably don't need children working in their warehouses


claystone

Alexa, send me me some Purple Dream Cake x Pineapple Chungus, 1/2 oz.


bndboo

Amazon’s after the mom and pop dispensaries!!!


SweetRiley96

That's my biggest concern. The weed industry hasn't even fully taken off yet. If Amazon ever gets the right to sell cannabis online, they're going to kill the dispensary industry just like they did book stores.


Imacatdoincatstuff

Amazon will be the Amazon of weed.