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Re:Tesla stock tanks as much as 9% after execs resign and El... by Lazeb on Friday September 07, 2018 @01:45PM (#17936190)
The only thing immature is the reaction, it's not a professional setting and he's not abusing the substance. It's purely just down to shock media reaction. Nobody mentioned the whiskey they were drinking either but that doesn't make a headline.
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Re:Tesla stock tanks as much as 9% after execs resign and El... by wand3r on Friday September 07, 2018 @03:53PM (#17937167)
They did mention it in TFA but regardless CNBC clearly thinks smoking pot is “bizarre” which I suspect is actually a pretty mundane and socially acceptable thing.
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Re:Tesla stock tanks as much as 9% after execs resign and El... by qubax on Friday September 07, 2018 @04:08PM (#17937268)
> It's purely just down to shock media reaction.

It's more than that. Journalists hate Elon Musk because he called them out a few months ago.

The same media outlets ranting and raving about how terrible our marijuana/drug laws are and how we need to legalize them are whining about musk smoking weed in california ( where it is legal BTW ).

It's just your routine biased hit piece by the media.

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Re:Tesla stock tanks as much as 9% after execs resign and El... by rhapsodic on Friday September 07, 2018 @02:44PM (#17936657)
> Nobody mentioned the whiskey they were drinking either but that doesn't make a headline.

Drinking whiskey is not a federal crime. Smoking pot is.

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/federal-marij...

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Re:Tesla stock tanks as much as 9% after execs resign and El... by Lazeb on Monday September 10, 2018 @09:46AM (#17951736)
These articles talk little to nothing about the legality of it. Not one article claims that Musk has broken the law and should be in federal prison right now. I'm talking about the general attitude to something that is clearly no more harmful than the drink on the table or the tobacco in the joint. Everyone knows several states have decriminalized it and many celebrities and business people that have even openly supported it.

I'm pretty sure the federal government will do nothing about this, as the resource implications, political will, and the reaction from other business leaders who will look on skeptically at the governments actions over what has already been deemed to many as a victimless crime (with regards to the actual possession).

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Re:Tesla stock tanks as much as 9% after execs resign and El... by Zanni on Friday September 07, 2018 @07:19PM (#17938363)
That's a legit distinction, especially for a company that wants to work with/stay in the good graces of the Federal government (e.g. now the Air Force is pondering how to respond, given their relationship with Space X).

But it's apparently too sophisticated a point for the article, which is pure clickbait.

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Re:Tesla stock tanks as much as 9% after execs resign and El... by binaryblitz on Friday September 07, 2018 @04:44PM (#17937488)
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