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

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That's the issue why should we be forced to smell it everywhere of we don't smoke? I don't think someone else's drugs should be forced on anyone else.

Because your discomfort isn't worth the police and justice system resources to enforce. Nobody said you had to like it, just deal with it.

You do realize that this attitude is why DC is going to sh*t right. So for you zero middle ground? No way to comprehend the difference between being ok with legalizing marijuana and not being ok with high zombies wondering around or driving around at 8 am, which is what i observe on my walk to work every morning?

If the issue is impaired driving, I think we could start with drunk driving and driving while distracted by your phone or your car.

That’s not the only issue. I’m ok with alcohol being legal. That doesn’t mean I’m ok with teachers at my kids school padding a forty or s fifth of vodka in the parking lot after a hard day, or drunk people crowding into the elevator with me on a weekday before noon, or drunk driving or drunks wandering around the city. Why don’t we see that as much - because despite alcohol being legal - other laws prohibit how and where alcohol can be consumed are generally enforced. DC has the same laws to regulate marijuana but like most other crimes lately they are not enforced. So in your world that makes me an uptight ninny? Um ok.

OP here. Thank you - you said what I was trying to say, but more clearly.

Cannabis is not really comparable to alcohol so therein lies the confusion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Counselors have been smoking weed since…forever.

If you had that job , you'd get stoned too.

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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.

The answer is that just about everyone has bought into the false narrative that it is healthy. The world is simply upside down.

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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.

What is a T15 Law School? Foes that mean you got into the number 15 school? Does a Yale law school grad say "I went to a T15 school"

Talk about trying to compensate for something. Must be the pot talking.

Can you not read?

It means Georgetown

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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.

The answer is that just about everyone has bought into the false narrative that it is healthy. The world is simply upside down.

They were claiming it could cure COVID at one point.

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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.

The answer is that just about everyone has bought into the false narrative that it is healthy. The world is simply upside down.

They were claiming it could cure COVID at one point.

And you were claiming that marijuana would make you homicidal at one point.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

They seem to be doing a good job on cutting down on the number of illegal airbnbs… but

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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.

The answer is that just about everyone has bought into the false narrative that it is healthy. The world is simply upside down.

They were claiming it could cure COVID at one point.

And you were claiming that marijuana would make you homicidal at one point.

Psychotic, yes. Specifically homicidal? No.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3927252/

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Says the DCUM resident pot head.

My side won. Your side lost. Nobody said you had to like it.

Just deal with it.

Pot makes people boring. Good luck with your extremely uninteresting life.

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Anonymous wrote:Like I believe that the current DC Council would actually regulate weed if DC was a state . . .
I'm with OP. So sick of the constant weed stink. It is worse than the heyday of cigarette smoking.

Why wouldn't they? Weed is a big money maker for the states where it is legal and properly regulated. Colorado has brought in over $2.5 billion in taxes from weed. Weed tax accounted for almost a half billion in 2021!

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Our government is run by special interest groups, that’s why. They do whatever the pot people or the bike people or the developer people demand and never ask anything in return.

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Says the DCUM resident pot head.

My side won. Your side lost. Nobody said you had to like it.

Just deal with it.

Pot makes people boring. Good luck with your extremely uninteresting life.

Obama?
Jack Kerouac?
Louis Armstrong?
and on and on and on

You must not know much about culture.