Treasury Secretary Yellen Says She Over-Prepared For First Time Using Marijuana And Jokes That It 'Always Helps' With Candy Crush - Marijuana Moment
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen joked that smoking marijuana “always helps” when you “get stuck” on a difficult level of the mobile game Candy Crush—but in reality, she said she hasn’t used cannabis since the summer before attending Yale University, when she trained for her first session by smoking cigarettes. During an appearance on the NPR […]
  • ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    So the treasury secretary who is employed by the federal government can use weed but I can’t because I drive a truck? And the job I’m trying to get also can’t because, get this, I’ll be employed by THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!

    • HeyJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I was just thinking of an article I read within the last few weeks of a guy who is in jail for 40 years, which is basically a life sentence at his age, and denied parole for growing like 5 plants.

      It’s obvious government workers can’t see why telling the public this can be pretty insensitive to the tons of people who have or had very serious consequences for doing the same thing.