I'm still using my grandma's ashtray. She didn't smoke chronic but I remember sitting with her at the table dropping winstons into that MF all day long. After she died (of cancer obviously, she smoked a pack a day since she was 12 years old and made it to 79) I took it. Now it lives in my library, and even though I don't smoke cigs I use it every day for my joints.
For you, I'm sure a joint would put you on your ass, high as giraffe ears, for several hours. Presumably during this time you'd be powerless to do anything but eat funyuns and watch Adventure Time on mute while you listen to lo-fi versions of Phish deep cuts.
Xanax is an intoxicant. Do you know how many people are on antianxiety medications? Those people work too.
Cannabis is a medicine. Just because you can't handle it doesn't mean I can't. For me, I get more physically effected by coffee than I do cannabis- admittedly not much more, but still more.
Also you definitely can deduct food and coffee as office expenses, same as pens or file folders.
I'm a self employed handyman and medical cannabis patient. If it weren't for the medical cannabis, I wouldn't be able to do my job. Bet your ass I take my pot as a deduction on my schedule c, and I take coffee, and I take lunch. I deduct shit that I have no business deducting, and the only taxes I even pay are to get that sweet, sweet child tax credit.
Odds are the recently defunded and understaffed IRS has better shit to do than comb through my poorly kept books just to bust me for taking an extra couple grand that maybe I shouldn't have.
I'm not too proud to admit I was wrong though, I did think you were bullshitting because "America bad" and come to find out English kids do indeed have freakishly good handwriting. I'm sorry for coming at you like that.
What do you listen to?