Because anything worth saying to me offlist is worth putting on the list, ESPECIALLY when it's trollbait. On 03/20/2017 07:03 PM, \0xDynamite wrote:
A person who smokes pot suggests someone who doesn't really care about excellence. They've stepped down from aiming high and have settled for being comfortable, much like a person who's done crack. They'll argue that crack is a "serious" drug, but it's all the same: escape.
Reality too tough for you?
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YOU live in an altered reality far beyond anyone who pokes smot. Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg is the founder, CEO, and owner of Bloomberg L.P., the financial software, data, and media giant. As three-term mayor of New York City, he presided over tens of thousands of small-time pot busts, despite having famously answered a question about smoking pot with: "You bet I did, and I enjoyed it." NORML used those remarks as the basis for a full-page ad in the New York Times and ads on city buses, prompting Bloomberg to say he regretted those remarks, and that he was "a believer that we should enforce the laws, and I do not think that decriminalizing marijuana is a good idea." Richard Branson. The afore-mentioned Branson not only wants to invest in marijuana, he says he smokes it with his adult son. In a 2007 interview with GQ, he told Piers Morgan as much, saying father and son had lit up during an Australian beach vacation. In that same interview, Branson revealed that he had learned the art of joint-rolling from none other than Rolling Stone Keith Richards, who should know how it's done. Hugh Hefner. The Playboy magazine founder and octogenarian serial monogamist deserves kudos for being the first businessman to get behind pot legalization, donating $5,000 to help found NORML in 1970. Hef is still sticking to that position: “I don’t think there’s any question that marijuana should be legalized because to not legalize it, we’re paying the same price we paid for prohibition,” he said in 2010. But it wasn't just politics; Hefner liked what pot did for him: “Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses,” he told Patrick Anderson, author of High in America. “I discovered a whole other dimension to sex.” Mark Johnson. Johnson may not be as well-known as some other names on this list, but he is the CEO and founder of Descartes Labs, a New Mexico-based tech company, and before that, he was CEO of Zite, a Silicon Valley personalized news streaming company. Back in his Zite days, he told Bloomberg News he was a full-on stoner, toking up day in and day out, and that so many other tech workers were, too, that it was not an issue. “People just don’t care,” Johnson said. "If you do, you don’t need to hide it; and if you don’t, you accept that there are people around you that do.” He also defended marijuana users' productivity: “Pot is an extremely functional drug,” he said. “Coders can code on it, writers can write on it.” Peter Lewis. Lewis was CEO of Progressive Insurance from the 1960s to his retirement in 2000, and served as chairman until his death in 2013. He was also "a functioning pot head" who used weed for both fun and relief from chronic pain from a leg amputation in 1998. John Sperling. The University of Phoenix CEO died last year at age 93, but not before publicly acknowledging that he smoked marijuana manage the side effects of the treatment he received for prostate cancer. He, Lewis, and George Soros were the original troika of deep-pocketed marijuana reform businessmen; now only Soros is left, although Lewis's estate continues to invest in legalization efforts. Oprah Winfrey. The iconic Oprah isn't on TV anymore, but she' worth $3 billion and she's still the chairwoman and CEO of both Harpo Productions and the Oprah Winfrey Network, where she's also CCO. She has never staked out a position on marijuana legalization, but she has twice said she smoked it, although not for a long time. She told "Watch What Happens: Live" in 2013 that she had last smoked in 1982, and she told "The Late Show With David Letterman" earlier this year that she hadn't "smoked weed in 30 years." George Zimmer. The founder and recently ousted CEO of Men's Wearhouse is an unabashed pot smoker, as well as a financial backer of legalization efforts. Just a couple of weeks ago he told CNBC that he’s “been smoking marijuana on a regular basis for about 50 years.” And he's not take it easy after his 2013 firing, either: He has since gone on to create online tuxedo rental and tailoring companies. http://www.alternet.org/drugs/seven-successful-ceos-smoke-pot Top 50: 1. Barack Obama 2. 2016 Presidential Hopefuls (?) 3. Oprah Winfrey 4. Bill Clinton 5. John Kerry 6. Stephen Colbert 7. Clarence Thomas 8. Katy Perry 9. LeBron James 10. Jay Z 11. Bill Gates 12. George Soros 13. Jon Stewart 14. Bill Maher 15. Rush Limbaugh (ROTF to take the edge of his oxy jones!) 16. Andrew Cuomo 17. Sanjay Gupta 18. George W. Bush 19. Seth MacFarlane 20. George Clooney 21. Lady Gaga 22. Ted Turner 23. Brad Pitt 24. Rihanna 25. Whoopi Goldberg 26. Morgan Freeman 27. Angelina Jolie 28. Conan O’Brien 29. Martha Stewart 30. Gov. John Hickenlooper (CO) 31. Gov. Charlie Baker (MA) 32. Tom Brokaw 33. Michael Bloomberg 34. Justin Timberlake 35. Aaron Sorkin 36. Glenn Beck 37. Al Gore 38. Matt Damon 39. Susan Sarandon 40. Madonna 41. Robert Downey Jr. 42. Phil Jackson 43. Rick Steves 44. Jennifer Lawrence 45. Miley Cyrus 46. Jennifer Aniston 47. Matthew McConaughey 48. Snoop Dogg 49. Hugh Hefner 50. Maureen Dowd http://www.thecannabist.co/2015/08/26/famous-pot-smokers-mpp-list-2015/39859... Oliver Stoned > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/18/most-famous-marijuana-users_n_51600... The list is pretty fucking endless if you count closeted users who can't say because of job loss risk etc.