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The Ad Agency Outing that Changed My Perspective on Cannabis in the Workplace

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Oct 13, 2022
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13 years ago I got my first internship at an ad agency and learned that cannabis is rampant in the professional world.

I got the internship through the MIZZOU alumni group, and was deathly afraid of word getting back to them if I were to fail a drug test.

So, I started smoking K2 (and similar popularized synthetic cannabinoids) for the last month of fre…

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