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Come on Amazon, lean on those reps!

Edit: Y’all, I am no Amazon fan, but I am all for marijuana legalization and expunging records for those previously convicted. If it takes Amazon to do that, so be it. The enemy of bad policy is temporarily a friend.

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I chuckled. About 5 years ago I remember listening to an interview and there was an interesting collage of various students' responses as to why they are smoking marijuana if they know it will limit their chances in the work market. One surprisingly direct answer was, and I am paraphrasing: 'heh, if they don't want to have anyone to work, that is their choice'.

Amazon probably doesn't actually want national legalization. That would mean their perk of no drug testing isn't worth as much. The whole point of this stance is that it helps their recruitment machine, not because they actually care about marijuana usage.

Maybe from an employment perspective, but I'd expect Amazon's sales, distribution, and delivery systems to make boatloads of money selling cannabis online. Maybe not immediately, but 5 years after legalization, Prime Weed (tm) will be a huge moneymaker.

Ordering a joint from the nearest Amazon Marijuana dispensary and a drone delivers it and lights it for you before it leaves.

not to mention the increased sales from people ordering while high.

I guess it depends on the state. I'm betting that the likelihood of Amazon being allowed to sell marijuana in my state(illinois) within the next decade is right around 0%.

I'm willing to bet against that quite handily.

Amazon didn't go to highschool with Madigan, so it's hard for me to see it happening.

I would bet Amazon would envision the long game of the potential for participating in legal marijuana deliveries would vastly outweigh the benefits of maintaining a recruiting advantage from no drug testing (which would possibly remain a draw for users of other drugs).

Wasn't that the plot of a scanner darkly?

Don't a lot of the corps only have it from federal contractor requirements spreading bad policies like herpes amongst the relevant linked industries?

Ten years down the line, Amazon workers will get a free bong at the end of each shift to feel better about their job.

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