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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was reading about players at the US Open mentioning/complaining about how much NYC smells like marijuana this year, and that's very much how I feel about DC as well -- you can just smell it everywhere.

Until the 90s, cities often smelled like cigarette smoke when you walked around outside. Not every nook and cranny but many places. TBH, they probably smelled more like cigarettes in the 80s and 90s than before that, because of the shift from allowing people to smoke in office buildings and restaurants. In the 90s, smokers had to go outside for smoke breaks which made the streets smell more like cigarettes.

I know the main reasons for the decline in cigarette smoke were people becoming more critically aware of the health impacts, and also the government and other institutions making it harder to smoke (which led more people to give it up because it's an inconvenient habit). But marijuana is a different drug than nicotine. I don't think it's *good* for you but it doesn't appear to have the same cancerous impacts as nicotine, nor does it have quite the same addictive effect (I do think people become addicted to marijuana, but it's not as intense as the smoker who will go into withdrawal very quickly if they cannot smoke).

Do we think MJ use will decline at any point? I don't mind that it's legal except for the smell of the smoke everywhere. I don't care if people smoke in their own homes, but I hate the air pollution. Do we think this will change anytime?

My dream is to be able to walk around an urban area without the smell of smoke (any kind), garbage, urine, or car exhaust. I feel like this should be the primary goal of urban design.[/quote]

Whatever.

Luckily, most people are not as dumb and selfish as you MAGAs.[/quote]

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