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this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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I work in IT and about half the workforce smokes weed. I worked at a high frequency stock trading firm in NYC that made hundreds of millions of dollars per year and tons of the developers were high during work hours. We had quarterly open bar parties where the CEO himself would openly smoke weed.
Being high on THC doesn't have the same effect on someone that is drunk, all coked up, or doped up on opiates. Smoking weed tends to open up people's creative sides and it reduces stress and anxiety when something isn't working the way you want it to. The same can't be said for the others because they impair your ability to focus, your vision, and decision making.
Also as someone else said, there are only a few positions where being high as hell can seriously impact the company. Most of the time the stuff you do doesn't have that much of an impact on the company in general.