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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good lord, who cares?

Kids under 21 aren't even allowed to buy pot, why does it matter if it's being sold to legal, consenting adults in the vicinity?

If stores are selling to underage kids, that's a completely separate problem and can be dealt with separately without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Nobody flips their lid over restaurants serving cocktails or supermarkets selling beer near schools, why would pot be any different?[/quote]

I care. My kids go to school there. I don’t want the school to have to divert scarce resources from learning to expanded supervision and security at dismissal if this application is approved. I don't want my kids to no longer be able to play outside or go outside for lunch during the school day. I don’t want to deal with double parked cars and couriers picking up delivery orders. I don’t want more traffic on that block leading to more frustrated drivers and increasing the risk that kids get hit crossing the cross walks on the way to the metro. I don’t want the allure of cannabis around impressionable young kids.

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+ 1,000,000. I also don’t really want my 11 year old to have to navigate the sidewalk on her own through a bunch of people standing around smoking pot or just loitering on the sidewalk. We all see what happens outside of these facilities across the city, regardless of whether they are a “medical” dispensary or a gifting shop.

The degree to which so many of you have zero qualms about the risks of normalizing drug use among kids is scary. There have been countless studies over the years about how kids who are consistently exposed to others using alcohol, drugs and cigarettes are FAR more likely to engage in those activities themselves. And we’re not just talking about high school kids who are going to be seeing this activity every day. The majority of the students at the school range in age from 10-13.

Anyone who claims this is no big deal clearly doesn’t have kids.[/quote]

Exactly.  Even though marijuana was effectively decriminalized in DC for home use, many MPD officers interpret that as "legalized." It has not been legalized, particularly not for public consumption.  The problem is that police in DC are more likely to do something about someone sipping from an open alcohol container on a public sidewalk that some lowlifes handing around in public space -- even near a school --  smoking pot.[/quote]

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