Why isn't marijuana at least regulated even a little bit in DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you guys need to grow up and mind your own business. Cannabis is normal now. Deal with it.

Marijuana is much more potent today than it was 20 years ago. Research is coalescing towards showing that a large portion of violent and anti social behavior, particularly in boys, is the result of marijuana usage.

More potent = smoke less

That’s a good thing. No there is zero scientific evidence that a “large part of violent and anti social behavior” is due to cannabis. So desperate to find something bad about cannabis!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m 52 years old and have been using cannabis on and off since aged 14. I earned four university degrees including a law degree from a T-15 school, which I chose over a number of T-10 schools that accepted me because I wanted to be in DC. My life has been generally successful although I have struggled with PTSD from childhood with abusive alcoholic father and enabling abusive mother. Cannabis has never caused me any significant issues, including the super good stuff I can get at the dispensary down the street these last few years since we legalized.

I was a prosecutor and defense attorney for years and I can count on one hand the number of cases I had involving cannabis and violence - and those involved a mixed intoxication of alcohol, not just cannabis. From my own life and professional experiences and years of reading the research, I know without doubt that the truly great evil in our society is ALCOHOL, period.

Anyway, there ARE laws regulating cannabis use in DC, so the OP and others here are engaging in disinformation. https://drugfreeyouthdc.com/dc-laws/marijuana/#:~:text=It's%20illegal%20to%20consume%20marijuana,jail%20or%20a%20%24500%20fine.

Thank you for taking the time to post such a well reasoned comment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Saw a group of counselors from my DCPS child's afterschool program hanging out together at the end of the day across the street from the school openly smoking up. Kids and parents walking right by them. I don't think they would stand around similarly passing around a bottle of liquor. Every time I am on the beltway there is a car in front of me going 10-15 miles slower than everyone else, drifting around in the lane, and filling my car and the cars around us with weed smoke. Why is this ok? Why when it was legalized did they not make any qualifications about public intoxication etc? And don't say "you voted for this," because I didn't.

If your complaint is with people driving stoned on the Beltway, you might take it up with Maryland and Virginia, which have both legalized weed (unlike D.C., technically), since none of the Beltway is actually in the District.

[Anonymous]

Those laws are not enforced. Yes, we were promised that legalization would not lead to the parade of horribles, because there ante laws on the books that should prohibit the now ubiquitous public consumption. But apparently we have decided it is fine and socially acceptable for people to walk around or drive around getting high, at all times. Cigarette smoke was an annoyance for sure (not to mention cancer causing), but at least the tobacco smokers were not high with impaired judgment and reaction times.

[Anonymous]

I hate it too. I was at the Takoma rec playground yesterday with my three year old and a bunch of middle schoolers were smoking around all these little kids. They were so disrespectful and screaming obscenities. Very intimidating. I just left. It was so disheartening.

[Anonymous]

Where are the 70% of DC voters who voted to liberalize marijuana in the district now? How are you feeling about your votes now that you see how it's turned out? Any other vices you want to legalize next?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you guys need to grow up and mind your own business. Cannabis is normal now. Deal with it.

Marijuana is much more potent today than it was 20 years ago. Research is coalescing towards showing that a large portion of violent and anti social behavior, particularly in boys, is the result of marijuana usage.

More potent = smoke less

That’s a good thing. No there is zero scientific evidence that a “large part of violent and anti social behavior” is due to cannabis. So desperate to find something bad about cannabis!

Because people who are high are really careful about measuring their dosage while they smoke?

[Anonymous]

Nothing would be better than full regulation and taxation of marijuana.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are the 70% of DC voters who voted to liberalize marijuana in the district now? How are you feeling about your votes now that you see how it's turned out? Any other vices you want to legalize next?

Legalizing marijuana would would perfectly fine if we regulated it like we do alcohol and tobacco. And actually enforced DUIs. But the federal government is screwing that up, as is the District’s inability to properly enforce any of the laws it does have.

[Anonymous]

DC doesn’t enforce anything. The city makes up lots of ornate rules for everything under the sun but then ignores the matter of actually enforcing them.

[Anonymous]

I don't know about DC but in VA you have to be 21 to smoke weed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know about DC but in VA you have to be 21 to smoke weed.

Same in DC

[Anonymous]

I love the argument from back in the day for when they were pushing for cigarette bans - that everyone has a fundamental right to breathe air unpolluted from cigarette smoke in public places because oxygen is required for life while smoking isn't. What happened to that same train of thought, but for weed this time?

[Anonymous]

The weed smoke is unbearable. I did not vote for this and it's coming into my apartment. I can't wait for my lease to be up I'm moving out of state. This was the last straw for VA for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love the argument from back in the day for when they were pushing for cigarette bans - that everyone has a fundamental right to breathe air unpolluted from cigarette smoke in public places because oxygen is required for life while smoking isn't. What happened to that same train of thought, but for weed this time?

Excellent point. Strange huh?