Is city scent of DC Pot now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's everywhere and it's gross. A sign of people who can't cope with life. I would vote for anyone who can criminality again. Noyjail, but a fine.

Fines are pointless. you are right. These folks can't cope with life. They won't magically care about paying a fine.

Different poster than you responded to. I agree with them, though, that marijuana should be illegal, but that doesn’t have to involve prison. If fines don’t work, what about:
community service?
mandated treatment?
house arrest with drug testing?

This is a complicated, difficult issue without a quick fix, but legalizing it so that we don’t even try to address the problem of marijuana usage certainly isn’t going to help any, either. And I consider marijuana to be a problem for society in two major ways:

1. As a psychotropic drug it impairs driving. Even though driving while impaired is illegal, with neither a legal standard defining what constitutes a level to cause impairment, nor a way to quantifiably measure the amount of marijuana that might be present to determine whether it meets the nonexistent standard, the law seems unenforceable.

2. As I mentioned in an earlier post, secondhand exposure is extremely dangerous for developing brains. We know it can cause problems with both mental health and cognitive functioning, and there really hasn’t been the time to determine all the impacts of long-term exposure to these more intense strains of cannabis. Not only is society losing untold amounts of their unrealized potential, but we are creating problems that we will have to solve in the future - (increased need for welfare, mental health facilities, prisons, etc.). Not to mention that sheer human decency ought to be enough to motivate us to protect vulnerable children.

I hate the stuff. Hate the smell.
Would be fine if people just smoked in their homes.

However, someone else here wrote that our entire social contract was broken during covid. People just do not care if their actions bother others. I'm afraid those who smoke in public will just not show for anything. Community service. Whatever. There are no consequences for our actions anymore. Other than being too high or drunk to cross the road and getting shredded by a passing car. But there are no social consequences.

[Anonymous]

It is trashy to stink like weed. If you have a job then you have so many better options now—vapes and edibles. Part of legalizing weed should mean we put extra tax on old timers that insist on still smoking it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is trashy to stink like weed. If you have a job then you have so many better options now—vapes and edibles. Part of legalizing weed should mean we put extra tax on old timers that insist on still smoking it.

Old timers? The people smoking in public are younger adults and teens. And no one cares about being trashy. It’s almost become more about retaking control or acts of defiance in the face of MPD and others in public because they know no one will do anything. Psychologically, something is seriously wrong with our society because everyone stopped caring and the bar for proper behavior in public is low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not just DC. Been to NYC lately? It always smelled like urine, now it's got heavy pot notes in addition.

I voted to decriminalize. Cops were being disingenuous about enforcement. Then they stopped doing any work at all... I guess I had naively hoped that decriminalization would protect folks who weren't hurting anyone, but that there would be some guardrails on smoking openly in public and while driving etc. But no. Massive clouds wafting out of cars. There was a guy puffing away with his wife and toddler at playground I passed the other day.

DC cops never fail to miss the lowest bar.

Why do people stop the blame at the cops? The prosecutors matter too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not just DC. Been to NYC lately? It always smelled like urine, now it's got heavy pot notes in addition.

I voted to decriminalize. Cops were being disingenuous about enforcement. Then they stopped doing any work at all... I guess I had naively hoped that decriminalization would protect folks who weren't hurting anyone, but that there would be some guardrails on smoking openly in public and while driving etc. But no. Massive clouds wafting out of cars. There was a guy puffing away with his wife and toddler at playground I passed the other day.

DC cops never fail to miss the lowest bar.

Why do people stop the blame at the cops? The prosecutors matter too

Shouldn't even be blaming the cops. They enforce (or don't) the laws your political leaders put in place. Responsibility is a circle. Vote in the people who will help foster the type of society you want.

[Anonymous]

I’m certain the availability of marijuana will help improve student achievement in DC.

Idiots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m certain the availability of marijuana will help improve student achievement in DC.

Idiots.

The DC government permitted a dispensary literally between two UDC student buildings. The students at a school designed to lift the marginalized out of poverty (with our tax money) now has easy access to cheap, abundant, legal weed. I don’t want to hear about institutional racism anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m certain the availability of marijuana will help improve student achievement in DC.

Idiots.

The DC government permitted a dispensary literally between two UDC student buildings. The students at a school designed to lift the marginalized out of poverty (with our tax money) now has easy access to cheap, abundant, legal weed. I don’t want to hear about institutional racism anymore.

Finally, these poor students can get treatment for their anxiety.

[Anonymous]

It’s gross and it’s in every city. Worse than DC in many cities I have visited. I voted against it for this reason but I don’t actually care what people do in their homes. Smoke all you want but keep it there. The problem is, weed clings to clothes and hair so you smell it all day on people.

And I hate how people smoke at the entrances to the Metro. I just want to go to work. And the guards do nothing about it. They also do nothing about people jumping the turnstiles, even with the new ones, so what would I expect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m certain the availability of marijuana will help improve student achievement in DC.

Idiots.

The DC government permitted a dispensary literally between two UDC student buildings. The students at a school designed to lift the marginalized out of poverty (with our tax money) now has easy access to cheap, abundant, legal weed. I don’t want to hear about institutional racism anymore.

This is the sort of thing that should make people ask "Are we the baddies?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's everywhere and it's gross. A sign of people who can't cope with life. I would vote for anyone who can criminality again. Noyjail, but a fine.

Fines are pointless. you are right. These folks can't cope with life. They won't magically care about paying a fine.

Different poster than you responded to. I agree with them, though, that marijuana should be illegal, but that doesn’t have to involve prison. If fines don’t work, what about:
community service?
mandated treatment?
house arrest with drug testing?

This is a complicated, difficult issue without a quick fix, but legalizing it so that we don’t even try to address the problem of marijuana usage certainly isn’t going to help any, either. And I consider marijuana to be a problem for society in two major ways:

1. As a psychotropic drug it impairs driving. Even though driving while impaired is illegal, with neither a legal standard defining what constitutes a level to cause impairment, nor a way to quantifiably measure the amount of marijuana that might be present to determine whether it meets the nonexistent standard, the law seems unenforceable.

2. As I mentioned in an earlier post, secondhand exposure is extremely dangerous for developing brains. We know it can cause problems with both mental health and cognitive functioning, and there really hasn’t been the time to determine all the impacts of long-term exposure to these more intense strains of cannabis. Not only is society losing untold amounts of their unrealized potential, but we are creating problems that we will have to solve in the future - (increased need for welfare, mental health facilities, prisons, etc.). Not to mention that sheer human decency ought to be enough to motivate us to protect vulnerable children.

I hate the stuff. Hate the smell.
Would be fine if people just smoked in their homes.

However, someone else here wrote that our entire social contract was broken during covid. People just do not care if their actions bother others. I'm afraid those who smoke in public will just not show for anything. Community service. Whatever. There are no consequences for our actions anymore. Other than being too high or drunk to cross the road and getting shredded by a passing car. But there are no social consequences.

"Would be fine if people just smoked in their homes."

Wow, just wow. They are and I'm being smoked out of my apartment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m certain the availability of marijuana will help improve student achievement in DC.

Idiots.

The DC government permitted a dispensary literally between two UDC student buildings. The students at a school designed to lift the marginalized out of poverty (with our tax money) now has easy access to cheap, abundant, legal weed. I don’t want to hear about institutional racism anymore.

Opposing the legalization of cannabis is a form of white supremacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m certain the availability of marijuana will help improve student achievement in DC.

Idiots.

The DC government permitted a dispensary literally between two UDC student buildings. The students at a school designed to lift the marginalized out of poverty (with our tax money) now has easy access to cheap, abundant, legal weed. I don’t want to hear about institutional racism anymore.

Opposing the legalization of cannabis is a form of white supremacy.

Legalizing cannabis will do more to keep down generations of low SES individuals than almost anything else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m certain the availability of marijuana will help improve student achievement in DC.

Idiots.

The DC government permitted a dispensary literally between two UDC student buildings. The students at a school designed to lift the marginalized out of poverty (with our tax money) now has easy access to cheap, abundant, legal weed. I don’t want to hear about institutional racism anymore.

Opposing the legalization of cannabis is a form of white supremacy.

Legalizing cannabis will do more to keep down generations of low SES individuals than almost anything else.

I’m appalled, that the UDC president was not appalled. They did not oppose this at all. One call to the ABC would have killed it its tracks. It’s shocking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's everywhere and it's gross. A sign of people who can't cope with life. I would vote for anyone who can criminality again. Noyjail, but a fine.

Fines are pointless. you are right. These folks can't cope with life. They won't magically care about paying a fine.

Different poster than you responded to. I agree with them, though, that marijuana should be illegal, but that doesn’t have to involve prison. If fines don’t work, what about:
community service?
mandated treatment?
house arrest with drug testing?

This is a complicated, difficult issue without a quick fix, but legalizing it so that we don’t even try to address the problem of marijuana usage certainly isn’t going to help any, either. And I consider marijuana to be a problem for society in two major ways:

1. As a psychotropic drug it impairs driving. Even though driving while impaired is illegal, with neither a legal standard defining what constitutes a level to cause impairment, nor a way to quantifiably measure the amount of marijuana that might be present to determine whether it meets the nonexistent standard, the law seems unenforceable.

2. As I mentioned in an earlier post, secondhand exposure is extremely dangerous for developing brains. We know it can cause problems with both mental health and cognitive functioning, and there really hasn’t been the time to determine all the impacts of long-term exposure to these more intense strains of cannabis. Not only is society losing untold amounts of their unrealized potential, but we are creating problems that we will have to solve in the future - (increased need for welfare, mental health facilities, prisons, etc.). Not to mention that sheer human decency ought to be enough to motivate us to protect vulnerable children.

I hate the stuff. Hate the smell.
Would be fine if people just smoked in their homes.

However, someone else here wrote that our entire social contract was broken during covid. People just do not care if their actions bother others. I'm afraid those who smoke in public will just not show for anything. Community service. Whatever. There are no consequences for our actions anymore. Other than being too high or drunk to cross the road and getting shredded by a passing car. But there are no social consequences.

"Would be fine if people just smoked in their homes."

Wow, just wow. They are and I'm being smoked out of my apartment.

+1 And playing in the backyard with kids, it wafts in from the neighbors and the teens smoking in the alley. We have to go in side on a beautiful day.