In honor of the day known as 'Four Twenty'...an article about god's wonderful medicine

I personally don't celebrate this 'holiday' and I don't know many people out of high school who even get excited about it but hay whatever floats your boat. Do whatever makes you happy. Below is an article about a guy that some corporate stoner bees may envy a great deal.

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Most of us assume that anyone testing positive for marijuana would be instantly fired by his/her employer, but that is not the case for Irvin Rosenfeld of Florida. Not only is he allowed to smoke marijuana, but he is allowed to smoke while actually at his workplace.

Mr. Rosenfeld is a stock broker in Fort Lauderdale, Florida that has been granted permission by the U.S. government to use marijuana to treat a condition that causes benign bone tumors. According to Rosenfeld, age 54, marijuana is the only treatment for his condition that allows him pain relief from his condition.

The typical day in the life of Mr. Rosenfeld involves waking up and smoking a marijuana joint, going to his office at Newbridge Securities where he smokes another joint, and then gets down to the business of trading millions of dollars worth of securities. During the course of a typical day Mr. Rosenfeld manages to go through between 10 and 12 marijuana cigarettes. His job knows his needs, his clients know he uses it, and everyone seems to agree that he suffers no bad side effects to his performance.

As more and more states start to allow the use of medical marijuana the question of marijuana use in the office is going to start to come into play. Right now there are 12 states that have legalized the use of medical marijuana with New Mexico joining the list just this month.

Mr. Rosenfeld is definitely an exception to the rule at this point. Even in states where law makers have allowed the use of medical marijuana, companies are slow to embrace the use in the office. The overall impression that marijuana leads to lack of concentration and the inability to perform one's duties are the primary objections to allowing marijuana use to enter the workplace.

As we start to see more and more states allowing the use of medical marijuana, the debate over marijuana in the office place is definitely going to become more widespread. Perhaps Mr. Rosenfeld's success while self medicating will start to change some people's impression of the impact marijuana has on America's workforce.