Most times I go to a party, if people are passing a joint around and know I am an attorney, they don't pass it to me, assuming that no officer of the court could partake of a controlled substance. They'll usually tell me "we wanted to offer you some but assumed that would be inappropriate" or something like that.
The truth is, I'm not much of a pot smoker, but it is not my status as an attorney that usualy causes me to decline the offer. I just don't care for pot much. I liked it when I was younger, in my later teens to about age 20, but I only rarely enjoy it now. I lost interest in pot long before law school.
Anyhow, do you find people making these sort of assumptions about you based on your law license?
The truth is, I'm not much of a pot smoker, but it is not my status as an attorney that usualy causes me to decline the offer. I just don't care for pot much. I liked it when I was younger, in my later teens to about age 20, but I only rarely enjoy it now. I lost interest in pot long before law school.
Anyhow, do you find people making these sort of assumptions about you based on your law license?
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Re: can lawyers smoke pot
Thu, September 20, 2007 - 6:49 AMDepends on your state. In NJ you will most likely lose your law license AND you have an affirmative duty to report everyone at the party.
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Fri, September 21, 2007 - 5:17 AMThat only confirms my "NJ sucks" belief.
NJ is a pretty suburb of NYC, with no other redeeming qualities.
And to think, I applied to Rutgers.
Weird, I had a dream about law school last night. Law school seldom enters my dreams. Must be the plate of greasy Tex Mex I had for a late dinner as I was reading my Securities Litigaiton tome. -
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Fri, September 21, 2007 - 6:43 AMI loathe New York.
I ain't "from NJ" but I have no room for NY.
NJ came up as a suburb of NY and Philli prior having been both a vacation and country home spot for NY wealthy.
It never had any of the great cultural entities that most large cities have.
All of NJ's cities were mostly blue collar citied organized around factories - much like NY in it's early years.
However I don't live in that part of NJ that makes every one laugh in any comedy club whenever the word "New Jersey" is mentioned.
I am in Rural Western NJ. There are farms and cows. I have bulls that get loose and wander about and bears that pull things out of my garage and investigate them. When take my grand daughters to a 4H fair there are real bona fide farm, animals wall to wall and you can get right up to 'em and there are no bars. They even make the tacky carnival with the rides and booths and shit set up about 500 yards away so you can't even hear the noise of the carni people and their crap.
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Re: can lawyers smoke pot
Fri, September 21, 2007 - 9:26 AMFunny how frame of reference makes a difference (just ask Einstein). I grew up on the other side of the Hudson, and we always had a lot of disdain for the Garden State. "Ugh, just look from the Turnpike!" people would say. Then I married a woman from Jersey, and I discovered lots of great things about it. I love living in NYC, but I do like an escape to the shore (e.g., northern LBI) now and again.
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Fri, September 21, 2007 - 3:43 PMTexans have a generic view of New Jersey as representing everything that is wrong (or that we fear) about the east coast.
However, I am aware that parts of New Jersey are beautiful, and that it is not all a suburb of NYC. And I have never met a person from New Jersey who I had any reason to dislike on account of them being from New Jersey. Folks is folks.
Really, I have no bone to pick with NJ, but I don't think I could abide by a law that required me to snitch on other people just because I was an attorney.
Texas has some dumb laws, too, but snitching is not one of them.
There is one snitch law in Texas: you (anyone, not just an attorney) have a legal duty to report child abuse or suspected child abuse. So, you are in the supermarket and you see a woman spank her kid. You think she hit the kid too hard, but that's none of your business? Wrong. You better call child protective services or you are breaching your legal duty.
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Re: can lawyers smoke pot
Thu, September 20, 2007 - 2:23 PMPeople who don't know me well assume I have a duty to report (which isn't true in California). To them, attorney = cop.
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Thu, September 20, 2007 - 5:27 PMGotta watch out for that over zealous youngster who takes the rat your buddy rule a tad too seriously.
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