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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I supported legalization because I lived in two places with legalized marijuana (Colorado and Vermont) and I viewed it as a net benefit both places. Treating marijuana like alcohol actually made it easier to regulate, reduced crime related to marijuana growing and distribution, and actually created more tax revenue as marijuana sales could be taxed. In neither place did legalization result in people smoking marijuana everywhere or the smell of it everywhere. In fact, legalization made the availability of smokeless marijuana products (edibles) broader, so I think many people actually smoked less.

I now understand that the DMV has cultural issues that mean it is not handling legalization the same way. Also, in DC itself, they didn't actually legalize it and they can't legally sell it and tax those sales, which is absolutely idiotic. But even setting aside the lost revenue, the real problem is that people viewed legalization to mean you can now smoke marijuana whenever and wherever and not be arrested or charged, and therefore people do. They smoke around children and schools and playgrounds. They smoke outside workplaces. They smoke while driving. If you complain about the smoking, you are racist.

I was wrong and people like Eleanor Holmes Norton who anticipated what would happen if we legalized marijuna in this area were right. They better understood the culture and communities here, and I did not, despite living here for 20 years.

[b]We made a mistake. I'm going to deal with it by moving away[/b], [b]but I'm sorry I voted to support these changes. I[/b] messed up and I was wrong.[/quote]

See this is part of the problem in DC. Young starry-eyed white SJWs will come to DC. In order to channel all that leftwing fervor they just learned on college, they will get behind some stupid local pet project like bike lanes or pot smoking, thinking their self-indulgent "activism" is doing their part to solve world hunger.  And when of course their dumb idea doesn't work out, these champagne liberals just flee for the racially segregated suburbs they came from, while the rest of us are now left to deal with the mess they created.[/quote]

I mean, I'm neither young nor starry eyed. I'm in my 50s. I had experience in other places with legalized weed and it was good. So my attitude was "yeah, of course, soon it will be legal everywhere." I'm essentially a libertarian (I know I know everyone hates libertarians). But I was wrong because I didn't understand how these communities of often disaffected young people who do not feel any social obligation whatsoever to other people would handle it. The experience here has been so different than in other places.[/quote]

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