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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to the natural history museum with my kids and someone there had been smoking weed I don’t know, probably five minutes prior? He absolutely reeked for at least a five foot radius and I just wondered what he was thinking, especially with so many little kids around.

Poor dears - are you worried your kids are going to get high from smelling this guy? Or otherwise be scarred?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to the natural history museum with my kids and someone there had been smoking weed I don’t know, probably five minutes prior? He absolutely reeked for at least a five foot radius and I just wondered what he was thinking, especially with so many little kids around.

Poor dears - are you worried your kids are going to get high from smelling this guy? Or otherwise be scarred?

Well, it's surely creating an unpleasant environment for other people.

Your individual liberty trumps others' abilities to enjoy themselves? Interesting question.

It's pretty nasty to smell cigarette smoke on others. I won't exclude pot smokers from the same criticism. I've noticed that just how many cigarette smokers have a psychological attachment to their habit that leads them to justify and defend it and be touchy of any criticism, despite the habit being unhealthy and unpleasant to others, and pot smokers are doing the same.

[Anonymous]

So is the theory here that people are smoking pot in the privacy of their homes and the smell is simply so pungent that it drifts a city block or are people now so comfortable with the DC law that they have taken it the next step and are now smoking it in public?

I have smelled quite a bit of weed in public parks in DC recently and wondered if I was the only one noticing. Anyway, not sure that is the appropriate place to be smoking. Wasn't the purpose of the law to ensure you could smoke legally in your house... Not Mitchell Park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is just too much pot being smoked. And I say this as a pot smoker.

Can your health be affected by the second hand smoke? Could you yourself pop a drug test? I don't think it's right to have little kids wandering through clouds of pot smoke, and how horrible for any recovering addicts. I voted in the law, but this is the problem. People have to take it to the other extreme and go all roller derby and can't be happy with their right to smoke pot in their homes. I can't wander down the street with an open beer in DC and they can't with a joint. The police need to start ticketing the + out of these morons.

[Anonymous]

My restaurant co-workers in Georgetown smoke pot on their breaks. I've seen people passing by asking to get a puff.

[Anonymous]

I too have noticed an increase in pot smells when walking around town.

Personally, I don't think it's a big deal as I find the smell to be somewhat pleasant.

My kids smell it and don't know what it is.

I think the reason people seem so sensitive about it is that they know what it is, and associate it with criminal behavior because it was criminalized for so long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I too have noticed an increase in pot smells when walking around town.

Personally, I don't think it's a big deal as I find the smell to be somewhat pleasant.

My kids smell it and don't know what it is.

I think the reason people seem so sensitive about it is that they know what it is, and associate it with criminal behavior because it was criminalized for so long.

This. Cities smell bad. Pot is hardly the worst aroma in an urban environment.

[Anonymous]

There's just something that taints an area when you're walking around and smelling pot often.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I too have noticed an increase in pot smells when walking around town.

Personally, I don't think it's a big deal as I find the smell to be somewhat pleasant.

My kids smell it and don't know what it is.

I think the reason people seem so sensitive about it is that they know what it is, and associate it with criminal behavior because it was criminalized for so long.

So is it legal to smoke pot walking down the street in DC or not? If it is illegal, it does not matter whether you like the smell of it or not, it is simply illegal and the smokers should be ticketed. If it is legal, then apparently we all need to get used to the smell of pot in public in DC. Because it is everywhere as OP stated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I too have noticed an increase in pot smells when walking around town.

Personally, I don't think it's a big deal as I find the smell to be somewhat pleasant.

My kids smell it and don't know what it is.

I think the reason people seem so sensitive about it is that they know what it is, and associate it with criminal behavior because it was criminalized for so long.

So is it legal to smoke pot walking down the street in DC or not? If it is illegal, it does not matter whether you like the smell of it or not, it is simply illegal and the smokers should be ticketed. If it is legal, then apparently we all need to get used to the smell of pot in public in DC. Because it is everywhere as OP stated.

It's illegal to smoke pot in public but MPD won't enforce the law, citing bigger fish to fry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It's illegal to smoke pot in public but MPD won't enforce the law, citing bigger fish to fry.

So as the previous poster commented, can we walk down the street carrying open containers, drinks or cocktails and not get ticketed. Or would I have to carry a joint as well to get the MPD to leave me alone.

Why do we have laws that we have no intention of enforcing.

Was the goal of the new decriminalizing law to bring pot out onto the streets in public? If it was. It has apparently succeeded, if not, maybe the MPD does need to spend some time actually enforcing the law as written.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It's illegal to smoke pot in public but MPD won't enforce the law, citing bigger fish to fry.

So as the previous poster commented, can we walk down the street carrying open containers, drinks or cocktails and not get ticketed. Or would I have to carry a joint as well to get the MPD to leave me alone.

Why do we have laws that we have no intention of enforcing.

Was the goal of the new decriminalizing law to bring pot out onto the streets in public? If it was. It has apparently succeeded, if not, maybe the MPD does need to spend some time actually enforcing the law as written.

It makes me feel tricked for voting to decriminalize .. I did not take the decision lightly and really wavered. This is basically what I feared, but hoped wouldn't happen. I feel taken advantage of. I'd like the police to ticket - the bigger fish to fry argument is cover for not policing as required.

[Anonymous]

I live and work in DC and I occasionaly smell it in China Town. Other than that, I never smell it. Where are you all going that you smell so much pot?

[Anonymous]

I hate the smell of weed. It never fails that I pick the seat (or the other ride picks the seat next to me) next to someone who reeks of pot.

What really scares me is the few times I've been near Metro workers/conductors riding in to start their jobs smelling of pot.

We took my out of town relatives to DC over the Thanksgiving holiday and my young niece (age 10) said, "oh no! I think a skunk has sprayed nearby. We should move so we don't get skunked!" Such an adorable little country Midwesterner.

[Anonymous]

The smell is not offensive to everyone and probably not harmful. City full of people out and about while STONED is quite concerning - at least in my opinion. They are mentally impaired. Do you people not realize how smoking pot affects your brain? Your behavior?