Pot and the CP Library

[Anonymous]

Christopher Hawthorne and Robbie Woodland, commissioners who oversee communities around the park, said they have pleaded with police, the mayor’s office and the Department of Parks and Recreation for guidance and support in enforcing the mayor’s order.

They complain that those agencies and others failed to intervene to break up the concert, and they are seeking a written protocol for how such gatherings should be handled, and say that request has been ignored.

At a news conference in July, Bowser put the onus on community leaders, including the ANC, who she said “see this type of behavior, who know the people who are involved, to get them to stop participating in that type of activity.”

Mayor has been saying for a month that this is on the ANC to fix. She has been backing off of using police the last few times she has spoken. Maybe the ANC have been given clearer guidance by the Mayor's office. It would certainly make a change from fighting the same old zoning and ABRA arguments.

[Anonymous]

I'm unclear why police shouldn't be called. It's hard for them to police this randomly because they have to see people 'in the act', but if they are congregating in a specific place on a routine basis and visibly smoking weed they can certainly ask folks to snuff out their joints, write tickets. if we want people to smoke weed everywhere, we need to change the laws to reflect that and make it legal. What would you do if instead of the public library this were outside the gates to an elementary school? How are they different?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pot is legal.

And this is why pot is a problem is DC. For as smart as we think we are, we conflate a simple decriminalization change with 'now you can cruise the street with a joint'.

This is why I wont vote for the dumb shrooms initiative. Do i care if you shroom? No. Do i care if your shroom in public, tear off all your clothes, rave and rant and scare kiddies with impunity? Yes. I totally forgot how selfish potheads are when i signed the pot prop, and I stupidly expected DC gov to maintain a where to use line.

+1

Yes, I'll be voting against the shroom initiative solely based on DC's completely dropping the ball on pot. I just don't trust the city to hold any sort of standard after its history with pot decriminalization.

Totally, and after they tear their clothes off and scare the children, they'll be coming to rape our white women! Our street will be clogged with human statues unable to function because they think they're a glass of orange juice and if they move they'll tip over and spill! Our hospitals and morgues will overflow with mushroom junkies who thought they could fly and jumped out a window! Our mental health system will be overwhelmed because doing hallucinogens more than 3 times means you are declared legally insane!

Jesus christ, stop getting your information on drugs from DARE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pot is legal.

And pot makes you stupid. As evidenced by it now being legal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pot is legal.

And this is why pot is a problem is DC. For as smart as we think we are, we conflate a simple decriminalization change with 'now you can cruise the street with a joint'.

This is why I wont vote for the dumb shrooms initiative. Do i care if you shroom? No. Do i care if your shroom in public, tear off all your clothes, rave and rant and scare kiddies with impunity? Yes. I totally forgot how selfish potheads are when i signed the pot prop, and I stupidly expected DC gov to maintain a where to use line.

+1

Yes, I'll be voting against the shroom initiative solely based on DC's completely dropping the ball on pot. I just don't trust the city to hold any sort of standard after its history with pot decriminalization.

Totally, and after they tear their clothes off and scare the children, they'll be coming to rape our white women! Our street will be clogged with human statues unable to function because they think they're a glass of orange juice and if they move they'll tip over and spill! Our hospitals and morgues will overflow with mushroom junkies who thought they could fly and jumped out a window! Our mental health system will be overwhelmed because doing hallucinogens more than 3 times means you are declared legally insane!

Jesus christ, stop getting your information on drugs from DARE.

DARE dealt in facts and reality.

You deal in histrionics and hyperbole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pot is legal.

And this is why pot is a problem is DC. For as smart as we think we are, we conflate a simple decriminalization change with 'now you can cruise the street with a joint'.

This is why I wont vote for the dumb shrooms initiative. Do i care if you shroom? No. Do i care if your shroom in public, tear off all your clothes, rave and rant and scare kiddies with impunity? Yes. I totally forgot how selfish potheads are when i signed the pot prop, and I stupidly expected DC gov to maintain a where to use line.

+1

Yes, I'll be voting against the shroom initiative solely based on DC's completely dropping the ball on pot. I just don't trust the city to hold any sort of standard after its history with pot decriminalization.

Totally, and after they tear their clothes off and scare the children, they'll be coming to rape our white women! Our street will be clogged with human statues unable to function because they think they're a glass of orange juice and if they move they'll tip over and spill! Our hospitals and morgues will overflow with mushroom junkies who thought they could fly and jumped out a window! Our mental health system will be overwhelmed because doing hallucinogens more than 3 times means you are declared legally insane!

Jesus christ, stop getting your information on drugs from DARE.

DARE dealt in facts and reality.

You deal in histrionics and hyperbole.

Did...did you think I was actually describing a realistic scenario? Histrionics and hyperbole is claiming that mushroom users will be tearing their clothes off and running around the streets naked. Making fun of people who think this will actually happen is...not that. No wonder you have such unrealistic views on drug use, you're a moron who can't tell fiction from reality or sarcasm from a serious statement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pot is legal.

And this is why pot is a problem is DC. For as smart as we think we are, we conflate a simple decriminalization change with 'now you can cruise the street with a joint'.

This is why I wont vote for the dumb shrooms initiative. Do i care if you shroom? No. Do i care if your shroom in public, tear off all your clothes, rave and rant and scare kiddies with impunity? Yes. I totally forgot how selfish potheads are when i signed the pot prop, and I stupidly expected DC gov to maintain a where to use line.

I cannot believe that people voted for the pot initiative without reading it! I am pro legalization and voted against DC’s version of it. Agree that the mushroom initiative is equally bad.

[Anonymous]

I am simply sad that this is even an issue. Why can't pot smokers smoke their pot at home?

Why would in front of kids at the public library make sense simply on a reasonable activity scale.

If they are homeless, then they should be able to smoke it at Friendship Place I guess or at 'The Brooks'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pot is legal.

And this is why pot is a problem is DC. For as smart as we think we are, we conflate a simple decriminalization change with 'now you can cruise the street with a joint'.

This is why I wont vote for the dumb shrooms initiative. Do i care if you shroom? No. Do i care if your shroom in public, tear off all your clothes, rave and rant and scare kiddies with impunity? Yes. I totally forgot how selfish potheads are when i signed the pot prop, and I stupidly expected DC gov to maintain a where to use line.

I cannot believe that people voted for the pot initiative without reading it! I am pro legalization and voted against DC’s version of it. Agree that the mushroom initiative is equally bad.

My understanding was you had to smoke on your property. If your property were in a non-smoking building, then you would not be exempt. Did I misunderstand the law?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am simply sad that this is even an issue. Why can't pot smokers smoke their pot at home?

Why would in front of kids at the public library make sense simply on a reasonable activity scale.

If they are homeless, then they should be able to smoke it at Friendship Place I guess or at 'The Brooks'.

I would definitely appreciate it if organizations for the homeless that receive a lot of support from the community also address with their clients good neighbor policies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am simply sad that this is even an issue. Why can't pot smokers smoke their pot at home?

Why would in front of kids at the public library make sense simply on a reasonable activity scale.

If they are homeless, then they should be able to smoke it at Friendship Place I guess or at 'The Brooks'.

Seriously, where does a homeless person smoke pot legally?

They use the library for everything else. It only seems natural that they would believe unless otherwise told so that they could smoke pot at the library. It is a city space after all and the city has said that it is decriminalized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pot is legal.

And this is why pot is a problem is DC. For as smart as we think we are, we conflate a simple decriminalization change with 'now you can cruise the street with a joint'.

This is why I wont vote for the dumb shrooms initiative. Do i care if you shroom? No. Do i care if your shroom in public, tear off all your clothes, rave and rant and scare kiddies with impunity? Yes. I totally forgot how selfish potheads are when i signed the pot prop, and I stupidly expected DC gov to maintain a where to use line.

+1

Yes, I'll be voting against the shroom initiative solely based on DC's completely dropping the ball on pot. I just don't trust the city to hold any sort of standard after its history with pot decriminalization.

DC allows people to use marijuana on private property, such as in your own home. Use in a public space, such as a park, is a criminal act.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I completed my weekly library run to Cleveland Park and once again was a little surprised at the number pf people smoking pot on the benches outside of the doors. I realize that we fancy ourselves uber progressive, however, at what point does our pride kick in and we realize that six people smoking pot in front of kids waiting to use the library may not be the 'look' we are going for.

I actually asked my librarian about it and she replied that anything outside of the door was not library property but public property and therefor legal. While that may have surprised me, I would still think that we could keep our pot smoking limited to areas it does not impact families waiting to check out Amelia Bedelia.

Call the police and complain. You can not light up in a public place and if you have over 2oz you will be arrested. Better yet call the Mayors office. DC police do not enforce any laws unless forced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am simply sad that this is even an issue. Why can't pot smokers smoke their pot at home?

Why would in front of kids at the public library make sense simply on a reasonable activity scale.

If they are homeless, then they should be able to smoke it at Friendship Place I guess or at 'The Brooks'.

Seriously, where does a homeless person smoke pot legally?

They use the library for everything else. It only seems natural that they would believe unless otherwise told so that they could smoke pot at the library. It is a city space after all and the city has said that it is decriminalized.

Seriously?

[Anonymous]

The police need to be called. The librarians are probably doing their best getting people to try to behave in the library. Call your representative. Write your representative.

In many other places I have lived they have a perimeter, and people have to smoke whatever outside that perimeter.