Do we want further lagalization of marijuana in DC?

[Anonymous]

Generally, if I go to an even at which people are consuming alcohol, I’m not affected by the fumes and don’t go home smelling like alcohol.

When I go to an event at which weed is consumed, generally I get a contact high and my clothing and hair stink although I have not indulged.

I want to be able to enjoy concerts and parties without being affected in this way. All those people who think their vape pen is avoiding an impact on others: you are lying to yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dear Stoner,

You're not an effective spokesperson for your cause.

Signed,
Sober adult having trouble taking arguments that end in "suck it" seriously who thinks you're actually proving our point

That you'd rather have people arrested and criminally prosecuted simply for consuming a plant. Society is better off for not wasting police and justice system resources on MJ. Find something else to clutch your pearls over, you're on the wrong side of history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Generally, if I go to an even at which people are consuming alcohol, I’m not affected by the fumes and don’t go home smelling like alcohol.

When I go to an event at which weed is consumed, generally I get a contact high and my clothing and hair stink although I have not indulged.

I want to be able to enjoy concerts and parties without being affected in this way. All those people who think their vape pen is avoiding an impact on others: you are lying to yourself.

How old are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Generally, if I go to an even at which people are consuming alcohol, I’m not affected by the fumes and don’t go home smelling like alcohol.

When I go to an event at which weed is consumed, generally I get a contact high and my clothing and hair stink although I have not indulged.

I want to be able to enjoy concerts and parties without being affected in this way. All those people who think their vape pen is avoiding an impact on others: you are lying to yourself.

How old are you?

47

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Generally, if I go to an even at which people are consuming alcohol, I’m not affected by the fumes and don’t go home smelling like alcohol.

When I go to an event at which weed is consumed, generally I get a contact high and my clothing and hair stink although I have not indulged.

I want to be able to enjoy concerts and parties without being affected in this way. All those people who think their vape pen is avoiding an impact on others: you are lying to yourself.

How old are you?

47

Take it up with the venues and party hosts. -NP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Take it up with the venues and party hosts. -NP

This is how absurd prohibitionists have become. "I want this thing criminalized and its users subject to the criminal justice system because I was annoyed I smelled it at a handful of concerts and parties over my 47 year lifetime." F U

[Anonymous]

I’d like to see it made fully illegal again. The last couple years have demonstrated that people just can’t maintain.

I smell weed at least two dozen times a day now. I smell pot more than I smell cigarettes. Or bus exhaust. Or coffee. Pot is literally one of the most common things I smell now.

And all I can think, is that there are just soooo many people around me who are stoned, every day.

Weed makes you dumber. If you’re a genius, then smoking weed will probably knock you down to just smart. And if you’re smart, you might wind up average. But the thing is, most people are already at average. And people who smoke a LOT of weed, are probably not even average. And they have nowhere to go but down from there.

The weed experiment has failed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
This is so ridiculously preposterous it is amazing you are allowed to particulate in our political process. 1950 thinks you're coo coo.

You seem quite defensive. Do you have an addictive pot habit?

I would imagine most reasonable adults should recognize that while pot can be an enjoyable activity for many people, it can also have substantial problems for others.

But as the alcoholic rarely acknowledges the dangers of his abuse, so does the modern pot addict.

It is impossible to reason with ignorant prohibitionists and their nonsensical logic and debunked facts out of the Reefer Madness era. There is little "risk" to society from MJ legalization and there is much more to gain. It is incredulous that boozers want MJ criminalize simply because they don't like it.

In the end, MJ is legal in DC and will never be criminalized again. Thus, suck it.

How old are you? 18? 22?

Some of us are older and have the perspective of seeing things across multiple decades. In the first place you are flat out wrong in implying there's little risk from marijuana. It strongly affects the development of a youth's brain while it is still growing. It badly affects the neurosis of people who have a proclivity towards neurological issues. The irony is that many of these people self-medicate on marijuana but it only worsens their condition. People definitely develop a codependency on the drug. There are studies and studies coming out showing all of this. And the older of us will certainly remember friends and classmates and family members who wasted years, even decades of their lives, as stoners. The risk to society is dealing with these people, just as we deal with the affects of alcoholism or tobacco or any other drug abuse. I don't like seeing this explosion of young people begging on the streets and wasting their lives stoned out and high on a range of drugs, of which marijuana is certainly part of the bundle. It's not good for society.

I'm not saying the answer is criminalization. Many people enjoy the drug and only treat it as they would the occasional drink. It seems silly to make them criminals. But we do have a problem, and a growing problem, with long term substance abusers. How we handle that is a big question.

Last but not least, marijuana abusers should not allow their substance use affect other people. If you smoke in your apartment, remember that your neighbors will smell it too. And they probably won't like it either. IT's a growing problem in DC, so a part of decriminalizing has to take into account being good neighbors too. But too many of the addicts fail to remember this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d like to see it made fully illegal again. The last couple years have demonstrated that people just can’t maintain.

I smell weed at least two dozen times a day now. I smell pot more than I smell cigarettes. Or bus exhaust. Or coffee. Pot is literally one of the most common things I smell now.

And all I can think, is that there are just soooo many people around me who are stoned, every day.

Weed makes you dumber. If you’re a genius, then smoking weed will probably knock you down to just smart. And if you’re smart, you might wind up average. But the thing is, most people are already at average. And people who smoke a LOT of weed, are probably not even average. And they have nowhere to go but down from there.

The weed experiment has failed.

So for the reasons you have mentioned, we should jail users?