Open drug use by rich people

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@iamthewalrus_3

Florida v. Jardines covered this, and SCOTUS said, no, the front porch is part of the private protected “curtilage” around the home.

That is true of freestanding houses, but not apartments, where the common area typically extends up to each front door.

[nearwildheaven]

@Saintly_Loser

Funny.

I worked on Wall Street in the 80s, at two of the largest investment banking firms, and semi-open drug use (cocaine) was common among those on the trading desks. If you were a “producer,” you could do whatever the hell you wanted, which included drug use and massive sexual harassment.

Of course, if you were a low-level employee, or if you were a trader and your trades were going bad, the rules were different.

I’m sure it depends on the company. I find your post much more believable.

So, how long before the coke-using sexual harassers crashed and burned, or were arrested?

There are a lot of reasons why there are very few investment bankers over the age of 35.

[Corry_El]

@nearwildheaven

I’m sure it depends on the company. I find your post much more believable.

It fits a common stereotype about an unpopular group, so no surprise you find it more believable. My experience at two firms (from 80’s to early 2000’s) was in Firm 1 there were some ‘front line’ people who didn’t make much of a secret of their drug use on their own time, though not most. I don’t know if that’s ‘semi-open’, I’m not sure the definition. Although when I worked in a shipyard some years before that I’d say it was at least as common. But caught using drugs at work? You’d get fired.

Firm 2: you wouldn’t get fired for any suggestion you might use drugs, I’m not sure that’s true anywhere. But you’d be auto-blackballing yourself in terms of advancement.

All or almost all stereotypes have some foundation in truth but also depend a lot on what other people want to think about a particular group. Now, I’m not saying people who work in a particular field are the same as ‘groups’ when it comes to other stuff (religion, ethnicity, etc). Of course those are different in potentially very major ways overall. But the appetite for stereotypes and degree of evidence needed to support them I think is something that runs in common.

[Tim_T-Bonham.net]

@hibernicus

What about the adults in its dorms?

“its” – meaning that the college is the owner. The property owner can certainly invite the police onto his property. With or without a drug-sniffing dog.

An individual who has rented a dorm room (or an apartment) does have the right to keep the police out of his rented dwelling. But not the common space. (And if a drug-sniffing dog in the common hallway alerts at the door to your space, that is sufficient cause for the police to enter your space, without a warrant.)

Also, the rental contract with the college probably contains a clause saying that the tenant will not do illegal activities in the rented space, and that the college has the right to check for this.