Can you farm honeybees with marijuana flowers to make marijuana honey?
Don’t agree with any of this.
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Almost everything that is legal has some kind of regulations. Cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, alcohol, gambling, prostitution, TV, anything that is FDA-approved, which basically means anything you put in your body, etc. Even our tap water is constantly being tested to make sure it conforms to some state standard.
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“Legal, subject to rules & regs” is still preferable to “illegal under any circumstances”. I would rather pay $14 bucks for a legal, legit Colorado joint than pay $2 for some underground stuff, because then I knew I wasn’t getting anything laced or bunk, and if I get busted with it, I won’t lose my CPA license. (assuming I lived in CO, that is)
That’s a good arguement for legalizing hard drugs (including MDMA in there) becuase you never know what you’re going to get. Weed’s a bit different. People don’t generally lace weed with anything as it’s cost prohibitive. After all, they’re selling a weed. It’s not like you can cut it with ex-lax to double your quantity. And as far as buying bunk, well, that’s on you. If you go to the grocery story and pick out bad avocados it’s because you can’t pick out the good ones, not because the avocado industry is trying to screw you.
^Yeah, if the worst thing that happens is that I buy $2 worth of bagged oregano, that’s not that big of a deal. Just a buzz-killer, in more ways than one.
I would be more worried about getting busted and losing my CPA license and my job. That’s really the only reason why I don’t partake. If/when it becomes legal in TX, I’d probably do it periodically. That is, when my wife/kids are out of town or the kids are at G-ma’s house. So 3-4 times per year. Certainly not enough to do any lasting damage.
can you get your CPA license revoked? what are the scenarios for losing your CPA/ CFA?
i always wonder, because it didn’t explicitly said in the CFA code of ethics, they only said if you get arrested for protesting for animal rights, it is not going to affect your CFA credential, but if you do get arrested for something else, are they gonig to contact you to say you are no longer a chartermember?
^I don’t think you’d lose the charter since it doesn’t really have anything to do with you employer, clients, or shady behavior with money. Now, if you were high while on the job then I suppose that would break the duty to employer rule.
The bigger worry would be losing your job. Probably depends on the individual company and their policies. If you’re doing it on your own free time, I doubt many places would fire you outright. Probably treat it like a DUI.
^There are two partners where I work. The one I work for is extremely straight-laced. He knows that I smoked pot in the past. I don’t know if he’d fire me for it, but it certainly wouldn’t do me any favors.
The other boss is a reformed pothead. He was a wake-and-baker for several years before he got on the straight and narrow. He probably wouldn’t care, as long as it remained relatively unknown.
@Nana - the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy can lose their CPA license for a “criminal prosecution involving alcohol abuse or controlled substances”. And that would be a fate worse than death. I probably wouldn’t be able to get a job in public accounting again, and certainly wouldn’t become partner. I’d get stuck in the back office of some construction company doing their bookkeeping on a part-time basis.
I guess it depends on the state then for CPA, but what about CFA?
Is there a level of crime you have to commit to get your CFA revoked?
Let’s say in extreme cases where you murdered someone and though it doesn’t involve investment or your professionalism, will they take your charter away?
So - more time and opportunities to smoke pot?
lol
It would probably fall under the “acts discreditable to the profession”, or whatever CFAI’s version is. (I’ve slept since L3 Ethics.) And I imagine that a felony conviction would be a discredit to the profession. So that’s where I’d guess that the bar is set–felony conviction.
Crimes that represent fraud or wanton disrespect of property are presumably CFA verboten.
As for smoking pot, certainly the CFAI would have little issue with people lighting up now and then in places where it’s legal, as long as it’s clear that investment analysis and decisions are not being made while high.
Ha ha. Agreed.
I haven’t been following but are they planning on legalizing marijuana or all derivatives from the cannabis plant? If it’s the latter then hashish also gets legalized and it is odourless with a much more pleasant high compared to weed. You could light up in the smoke room at work and if it’s high quality no one will be the wiser.
A lot of people also say weed doesn’t agree with them - headaches , paranoia etc. Almost everyone who has experienced hashish enjoys it and considering it fades after 15-20 min and doesn’t leave you bombed for a couple of hours it’s infinitely preferable.
Good read for those who don’t know the relationship between GOTUS agencies like the DEA and cartels. TL:DR - agencies like the CIA and DEA have a budget that is basically public, but apparently that is not enough, so the drug trade is a way to make some extra money that doesn’t show up on anybody’s records.
Legal Pot in the US Is Crippling Mexican Cartels
https://news.vice.com/article/legal-pot-in-the-us-is-crippling-mexican-cartels?utm_source=vicenewsfb