Is marijuana a fad that will fade?
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Anonymous
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I was reading about players at the US Open mentioning/complaining about how much NYC smells like marijuana this year, and that's very much how I feel about DC as well -- you can just smell it everywhere.
Until the 90s, cities often smelled like cigarette smoke when you walked around outside. Not every nook and cranny but many places. TBH, they probably smelled more like cigarettes in the 80s and 90s than before that, because of the shift from allowing people to smoke in office buildings and restaurants. In the 90s, smokers had to go outside for smoke breaks which made the streets smell more like cigarettes. I know the main reasons for the decline in cigarette smoke were people becoming more critically aware of the health impacts, and also the government and other institutions making it harder to smoke (which led more people to give it up because it's an inconvenient habit). But marijuana is a different drug than nicotine. I don't think it's *good* for you but it doesn't appear to have the same cancerous impacts as nicotine, nor does it have quite the same addictive effect (I do think people become addicted to marijuana, but it's not as intense as the smoker who will go into withdrawal very quickly if they cannot smoke). Do we think MJ use will decline at any point? I don't mind that it's legal except for the smell of the smoke everywhere. I don't care if people smoke in their own homes, but I hate the air pollution. Do we think this will change anytime? My dream is to be able to walk around an urban area without the smell of smoke (any kind), garbage, urine, or car exhaust. I feel like this should be the primary goal of urban design. |
Anonymous
| Wow, ANOTHER thread about weed. How original, and we totally need to beat this dead horse again. |
Anonymous
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No. It's an addictive substance, OP. Unless the government and various agencies are willing to sink significant funding into anti-weed health campaigns, like they did for tobacco for many decades, no, it's not going to get better.
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Anonymous
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The wedding smell has actually faded in my area of the MD suburbs. At first it was everywhere, and now I have just an occasional whiff.
Assume use is increasing in DC with all the extra stress |
Anonymous
| Maybe smoking MJ isn’t as bad as cigarettes but there’s no way inhaling the smoke of ANY burning substance isn’t carcinogenic. It’s definitely not healthy |
Anonymous
| This plant has been used for THOUSANDS of years. It's not going anywhere. |
Anonymous
| Those US Open players are known racists. |
Anonymous
| It’s driving down the highway smelling the car in front of me that blows my mind |
Anonymous
People are drinking less. I think. Maybe in a decade or two they'll be smoking less. |
Anonymous
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No. Pandora's box. It's now accepted and I wonder if the reported decline in drinking is because people can buy weed in so many places now. People have a gummy instead of a nightcap.
I think it's fine if people want to use it but I don't think it's without problems. I can't use it myself and do not like its effects. I have seen the bad effects in others too. I feel like people have thrown caution to the wind. |
Anonymous
There are many ways to consume that don't involve smoking |
Anonymous
| No, not now that its legal in so many places. We all get to smell these drug addicts 24/7. |
Anonymous
| Until the alcohol industry comes out with a report on weed (the same way the weed people came out with the report about alcohol). . . |
Anonymous
| I hate it so much. Both my neighbors in a Dc rowhouse smoke so my house and porch smell like it constantly. |
Anonymous
| No. Legalizing weed means use rates will go sky-high -Despite what those that promoted legalization claimed. |