Returned to the District after two years. First impression: Smells like marijuana

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Anonymous wrote:I guess from cheech and chong we think pot smoking is "cute". When evidence accumulates of the real damage it causes, like putting burnt lungs on cigarette packages, maybe people will think differently. I support it as a choice, but I don't think it's especially cute. I hung out with a lot of stoners in college - and by and large a lot of them were kind of selfish asses who squandered great potential and have gone on to other addictive behaviours or long struggling journeys to get on their feet. Do it in your home, but doesn't trump laws on driving under the influence or public consumption or even common sense, decency and courtesy to families and children.

The evidence has been accumulated for at least 300 years.
Just not in this part of the world.
MJ is a narcotic and a dangerous one. It has pretty bad effects on adult users when consumed for a long period of time (neurosis, mental retardation, lung cancer), it has devastating effect on children as second hand smokers (same as on adults), and on fetuses (mental retardation, reduced size of a brain).
Second hand smoke is just as dangerous for victims as it contains very high dose of thc after been exhaled plus a hefty dose of carcinogens.

Please cite your resource for this information. The claims you make above are blatantly false (first of all, medical personnel would not use the term mental retardation, unless it was 1970... also many studies have concluded that smoking marijuana long term can harm the longs but does not cause lung cancer, to the surprise of medical researchers!)

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Anonymous wrote:So what can we do about it? Would love to talk solutions, especially banning it in apartment/condo/co-op buildings and enforcing prohibitions on public smoking.

DC doesn't care about "petty" law enforcement where there's even a remote concern of racial profiling. I've seen people smoking weed (and selling weed) right in front of MPD around Gallery Place. They've decided they have bigger issues to deal with.

Most new apartments have smoke-free policies but they are very hard to enforce. Everyone I know in a "smoke-free" building is dealing with wafting pot smoke. Odor nuisance violations are hard to prove.

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Anonymous wrote:This is very interesting. I am already tempted to support any initiative to rescind the current law however, before moving to what you say. You make a strong argument, but I feel I have already been tricked once. Police need to strongly enforce what we currently have before we move to anything new. The city should also publicize where you can /cannot smoke weed. There is clearly so much confusion. If they cannot get a bead on the current situation, I dread anything new being introduced. That " reeks", pun intended.

thanks! It just seems that DC got the short end of the stick, they could have a bustling market with millions in tax revenue and better enforcement (clearer guidelines/regulations on how the market works) and instead are living in limbo and no one is happy. Right now it is a free for all, there is no regulation for example consumers are buying from vendors, who are often selling rejected product from states that have a regulated recreational market. These pop-ups that happen everyday of the week in the city is what I suspect is the cause when folks are getting strong weed smells in the city. Vendors fill private homes/ empty retail, and sell large amount of product, lots of folks coming and going from DC, VA, & MD. Every party I have attended, you could smell down the block. This is where most of the enforcement is atm, finding and stopping the pop-up events, busting vendors, not consumers. I have seen many vendors come and go over the last several months, many pop-up parties have had to change locations, with heavy enforcement beginning over the summer, so I can tell you that the police in the district are busy. If there was a legal market, these vendors would have to apply to set-up shop, and only do so in appropriately zoned places, have occupancy and other life saving regulations to be met... I could go on and on, but honestly, just the money for the city that is being missed out on alone would make a fully realized market worth it!

Have you watched the Netflix documentary "Murder Mountain" about Humboldt, California after legalization?

I actually just finished watching it yesterday, really fascinating to watch! I don't see exactly how the situation in Humboldt correlates with DC, as they had a very large existing black market that they had not been able to control/ let them self-police for some time. I think Legalization is still the way through the mess, and the series mentioned above did not change my mind in that regard.

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Most new apartments have smoke-free policies but they are very hard to enforce. Everyone I know in a "smoke-free" building is dealing with wafting pot smoke. Odor nuisance violations are hard to prove.

Hard to enforce, lol. Welcome to 2019 where most multi-unit managed properties in DC count their blessings that they're only bitching about the smell of marijuana instead of tenants who have raging parties until 5 am.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, in this country we've all learned that sometimes, large blocks of voters can be extremely stupid and irresponsible. This is a more trendy but nevertheless stupid example.

Spoken like a true loser

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Now that it is in essence legalized marijuana possession and consumption is a victimless crime. The fact that someone on DCUM is offended that their kids might smell something that they are neither bothered by nor aware of what it is doesn't mean it makes any sense for MPD to put resources into this issue when we have actual serious and life threatening issues that actually merit attention.

Gotta love all the pretend liberal women in DC who abandon all liberal principles simply because they are offended by the smell of MJ. These people make me sick.

You make no sense. There is nothing "liberal" or "conservative" about not wanting to reek of pot that you don't smoke, not wanting your kids exposed to second hand smoke of any kind, and not wanting to get run over by a high driver. Self preservation is pretty universal.

You really sound like you are nuts.

The exhaust from cars are far more prevalent and harmful in DC than the rare exposure to second hand marijuana smoke.

Where is it that you are constantly being exposed to second hand pot smoke? We were all over DC during the winter break and I can only once recall smelling pot.

I can't comment on DC because we don't live there, but on a recent trip to Spain we noticed that while in Madrid we never smelled pot anywhere, then we went to Barcelona and we smelled it everywhere. I mean everywhere. And it didn't surprise us there were far more of the young dirty looking hipsters hanging out in Barcelona than in Madrid and we guessed that's the source. And, yes, it was pretty annoying. Very annoying.

DH commented that people who smoke pot regularly have no idea how much it smells and how annoying it is to non pot users, just like with cigarette smokers. I used to think legalizing pot would be fine but that was when it was only being used indoors and away from the public. Now I'm realizing legalizing pot is leading to more public nuisances and I'm starting to take a more conservative attitude towards it.

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DH commented that people who smoke pot regularly have no idea how much it smells and how annoying it is to non pot users, just like with cigarette smokers. I used to think legalizing pot would be fine but that was when it was only being used indoors and away from the public. Now I'm realizing legalizing pot is leading to more public nuisances and I'm starting to take a more conservative attitude towards it.

Get over it.

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DH commented that people who smoke pot regularly have no idea how much it smells and how annoying it is to non pot users, just like with cigarette smokers. I used to think legalizing pot would be fine but that was when it was only being used indoors and away from the public. Now I'm realizing legalizing pot is leading to more public nuisances and I'm starting to take a more conservative attitude towards it.

Get over it.

I’m guess you’re a pot user?

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You people have too much time on your hands if you’re so worried about an aroma.

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Anonymous wrote:You people have too much time on your hands if you’re so worried about an aroma.

Let me guess, you smoke pot?

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Anonymous wrote:You people have too much time on your hands if you’re so worried about an aroma.

PP must be a pothead. It's hard to imagine anyone else describing the equivalent of a truckload of dead skunks as "an aroma."

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Anonymous wrote:I have been working overseas for a couple of years and I have followed DC politics closely as we still own our house here. I knew about the new marijuana laws, however, I was not prepared for the reality of the impact of the new laws which is an omipresent smell of marijuana now in public. My family and I were enjoying the amazing weather this past Sunday with a day walking through Georgetown. One could not walk a single block without the cloud of proverbial 'skunk weed'. While I followed the decriminalization from afar, I had no idea that the reality would be that you could not walk a city block without enjoying your fellow residents joint.

No, thanks, DC. Smoke yourselves to death.

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OP, I thought of your thread today. I was in DC and at a bakery to get a coffee and sticky bun. The people in front of me had obviously just partaken. The smell was so strong I felt like I could have gotten a contact high just by being in their presence. It is legal, I'm fine with it, but I totally didn't want to show up at my kid's game smelling like weed. I noticed that I was not the only person giving them a wide berth!

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Its gross and the ones smoking publicly or in cars are selfish and short sighted. If there were a ballot initiative to decriminalize I'd vote yes.

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Anonymous wrote:
DH commented that people who smoke pot regularly have no idea how much it smells and how annoying it is to non pot users, just like with cigarette smokers. I used to think legalizing pot would be fine but that was when it was only being used indoors and away from the public. Now I'm realizing legalizing pot is leading to more public nuisances and I'm starting to take a more conservative attitude towards it.

Get over it.

Ok, as long as you’re ok with my cigarette smoke.