Springfield in it's entirely stinks like weed right now!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are visiting NYC, and it smells a 1,000 times better than DC. Never thought I'd say that. Haven't seen a rat either.

And two cops on every street corner downtown. NY is amazing me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to believe weed should be legal but I’ve revised my opinion. It’s foul to smell it everywhere. I wish it were only legal in your home or something. Ugh. Yuck. Weed smell is nasty.

It literally is only legal in your home.

Home is where the heart is.

[Anonymous]

I supported legalization because I lived in two places with legalized marijuana (Colorado and Vermont) and I viewed it as a net benefit both places. Treating marijuana like alcohol actually made it easier to regulate, reduced crime related to marijuana growing and distribution, and actually created more tax revenue as marijuana sales could be taxed. In neither place did legalization result in people smoking marijuana everywhere or the smell of it everywhere. In fact, legalization made the availability of smokeless marijuana products (edibles) broader, so I think many people actually smoked less.

I now understand that the DMV has cultural issues that mean it is not handling legalization the same way. Also, in DC itself, they didn't actually legalize it and they can't legally sell it and tax those sales, which is absolutely idiotic. But even setting aside the lost revenue, the real problem is that people viewed legalization to mean you can now smoke marijuana whenever and wherever and not be arrested or charged, and therefore people do. They smoke around children and schools and playgrounds. They smoke outside workplaces. They smoke while driving. If you complain about the smoking, you are racist.

I was wrong and people like Eleanor Holmes Norton who anticipated what would happen if we legalized marijuna in this area were right. They better understood the culture and communities here, and I did not, despite living here for 20 years.

We made a mistake. I'm going to deal with it by moving away, but I'm sorry I voted to support these changes. I messed up and I was wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to believe weed should be legal but I’ve revised my opinion. It’s foul to smell it everywhere. I wish it were only legal in your home or something. Ugh. Yuck. Weed smell is nasty.

It literally is only legal in your home.

Only if you live in a detached home

[Anonymous]

It's just so sad that the people using weed so heavily are part of one big science experiment right now. You'd think we would have learned the lessons from cigarettes, which were at least standardized in their production. Now you have tons of people who have used weed only recently and are already coughing like crazy. Yet someone we're OK with it. Unfettered freedom indeed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's just so sad that the people using weed so heavily are part of one big science experiment right now. You'd think we would have learned the lessons from cigarettes, which were at least standardized in their production. Now you have tons of people who have used weed only recently and are already coughing like crazy. Yet someone were OK with it. Unfettered freedom indeed.

It's crazy that only shortly after we finally made smoking cigarettes something it was no longer acceptable (and in some places legal) to do in public spaces, we have introduced a new smoking habit that people now do in all the same places people used to smoke cigarettes back in the 80s/90s. It's ridiculous.

I don't care if other people smoke cigarettes OR marijuana, but I hate having my kid around second hand smoke of any kind -- I was around so much of it as a kid and it really impacted my health. So the idea that knowing what we know about this stuff, suddenly it's socially acceptable for people to fill streets withs second hand smoke is nuts to me. We JUST solved this problem. What the hell?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's just so sad that the people using weed so heavily are part of one big science experiment right now. You'd think we would have learned the lessons from cigarettes, which were at least standardized in their production. Now you have tons of people who have used weed only recently and are already coughing like crazy. Yet someone were OK with it. Unfettered freedom indeed.

It's crazy that only shortly after we finally made smoking cigarettes something it was no longer acceptable (and in some places legal) to do in public spaces, we have introduced a new smoking habit that people now do in all the same places people used to smoke cigarettes back in the 80s/90s. It's ridiculous.

I don't care if other people smoke cigarettes OR marijuana, but I hate having my kid around second hand smoke of any kind -- I was around so much of it as a kid and it really impacted my health. So the idea that knowing what we know about this stuff, suddenly it's socially acceptable for people to fill streets withs second hand smoke is nuts to me. We JUST solved this problem. What the hell?

It's horrible now going to beaches and smelling this stuff.

[Anonymous]

Virginia is trash now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's just so sad that the people using weed so heavily are part of one big science experiment right now. You'd think we would have learned the lessons from cigarettes, which were at least standardized in their production. Now you have tons of people who have used weed only recently and are already coughing like crazy. Yet someone were OK with it. Unfettered freedom indeed.

It's crazy that only shortly after we finally made smoking cigarettes something it was no longer acceptable (and in some places legal) to do in public spaces, we have introduced a new smoking habit that people now do in all the same places people used to smoke cigarettes back in the 80s/90s. It's ridiculous.

I don't care if other people smoke cigarettes OR marijuana, but I hate having my kid around second hand smoke of any kind -- I was around so much of it as a kid and it really impacted my health. So the idea that knowing what we know about this stuff, suddenly it's socially acceptable for people to fill streets withs second hand smoke is nuts to me. We JUST solved this problem. What the hell?

Cigarette smoking was almost done hardly anyone smoked anymore now everyone stinks like weed instead. Mind blowing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I supported legalization because I lived in two places with legalized marijuana (Colorado and Vermont) and I viewed it as a net benefit both places. Treating marijuana like alcohol actually made it easier to regulate, reduced crime related to marijuana growing and distribution, and actually created more tax revenue as marijuana sales could be taxed. In neither place did legalization result in people smoking marijuana everywhere or the smell of it everywhere. In fact, legalization made the availability of smokeless marijuana products (edibles) broader, so I think many people actually smoked less.

I now understand that the DMV has cultural issues that mean it is not handling legalization the same way. Also, in DC itself, they didn't actually legalize it and they can't legally sell it and tax those sales, which is absolutely idiotic. But even setting aside the lost revenue, the real problem is that people viewed legalization to mean you can now smoke marijuana whenever and wherever and not be arrested or charged, and therefore people do. They smoke around children and schools and playgrounds. They smoke outside workplaces. They smoke while driving. If you complain about the smoking, you are racist.

I was wrong and people like Eleanor Holmes Norton who anticipated what would happen if we legalized marijuna in this area were right. They better understood the culture and communities here, and I did not, despite living here for 20 years.

We made a mistake. I'm going to deal with it by moving away, but I'm sorry I voted to support these changes. I messed up and I was wrong.

If only someone had told us this would happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I supported legalization because I lived in two places with legalized marijuana (Colorado and Vermont) and I viewed it as a net benefit both places. Treating marijuana like alcohol actually made it easier to regulate, reduced crime related to marijuana growing and distribution, and actually created more tax revenue as marijuana sales could be taxed. In neither place did legalization result in people smoking marijuana everywhere or the smell of it everywhere. In fact, legalization made the availability of smokeless marijuana products (edibles) broader, so I think many people actually smoked less.

I now understand that the DMV has cultural issues that mean it is not handling legalization the same way. Also, in DC itself, they didn't actually legalize it and they can't legally sell it and tax those sales, which is absolutely idiotic. But even setting aside the lost revenue, the real problem is that people viewed legalization to mean you can now smoke marijuana whenever and wherever and not be arrested or charged, and therefore people do. They smoke around children and schools and playgrounds. They smoke outside workplaces. They smoke while driving. If you complain about the smoking, you are racist.

I was wrong and people like Eleanor Holmes Norton who anticipated what would happen if we legalized marijuna in this area were right. They better understood the culture and communities here, and I did not, despite living here for 20 years.

We made a mistake. I'm going to deal with it by moving away, but I'm sorry I voted to support these changes. I messed up and I was wrong.

See this is part of the problem in DC. Young starry-eyed white SJWs will come to DC. In order to channel all that leftwing fervor they just learned on college, they will get behind some stupid local pet project like bike lanes or pot smoking, thinking their self-indulgent "activism" is doing their part to solve world hunger. And when of course their dumb idea doesn't work out, these champagne liberals just flee for the racially segregated suburbs they came from, while the rest of us are now left to deal with the mess they created.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I supported legalization because I lived in two places with legalized marijuana (Colorado and Vermont) and I viewed it as a net benefit both places. Treating marijuana like alcohol actually made it easier to regulate, reduced crime related to marijuana growing and distribution, and actually created more tax revenue as marijuana sales could be taxed. In neither place did legalization result in people smoking marijuana everywhere or the smell of it everywhere. In fact, legalization made the availability of smokeless marijuana products (edibles) broader, so I think many people actually smoked less.

I now understand that the DMV has cultural issues that mean it is not handling legalization the same way. Also, in DC itself, they didn't actually legalize it and they can't legally sell it and tax those sales, which is absolutely idiotic. But even setting aside the lost revenue, the real problem is that people viewed legalization to mean you can now smoke marijuana whenever and wherever and not be arrested or charged, and therefore people do. They smoke around children and schools and playgrounds. They smoke outside workplaces. They smoke while driving. If you complain about the smoking, you are racist.

I was wrong and people like Eleanor Holmes Norton who anticipated what would happen if we legalized marijuna in this area were right. They better understood the culture and communities here, and I did not, despite living here for 20 years.

We made a mistake. I'm going to deal with it by moving away, but I'm sorry I voted to support these changes. I messed up and I was wrong.

See this is part of the problem in DC. Young starry-eyed white SJWs will come to DC. In order to channel all that leftwing fervor they just learned on college, they will get behind some stupid local pet project like bike lanes or pot smoking, thinking their self-indulgent "activism" is doing their part to solve world hunger. And when of course their dumb idea doesn't work out, these champagne liberals just flee for the racially segregated suburbs they came from, while the rest of us are now left to deal with the mess they created.

I mean, I'm neither young nor starry eyed. I'm in my 50s. I had experience in other places with legalized weed and it was good. So my attitude was "yeah, of course, soon it will be legal everywhere." I'm essentially a libertarian (I know I know everyone hates libertarians). But I was wrong because I didn't understand how these communities of often disaffected young people who do not feel any social obligation whatsoever to other people would handle it. The experience here has been so different than in other places.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I supported legalization because I lived in two places with legalized marijuana (Colorado and Vermont) and I viewed it as a net benefit both places. Treating marijuana like alcohol actually made it easier to regulate, reduced crime related to marijuana growing and distribution, and actually created more tax revenue as marijuana sales could be taxed. In neither place did legalization result in people smoking marijuana everywhere or the smell of it everywhere. In fact, legalization made the availability of smokeless marijuana products (edibles) broader, so I think many people actually smoked less.

But we didn't treat marijuana like alcohol. In places like Maryland, it is taxed less than alcohol, the government has promoted sales through advertising and grants to dispensaries, legislators made it all but impossible for police to enforce impaired driving laws, and the government doesn't seem to have any plan for detecting underage sales or punishing stores that sell to people underage.

So, yes, please, treat it like alcohol.