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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll absolutely blame the victim in this case.

She sells pot. Pot does nothing positive for a large percentage of the people who are using it. That contributes to the general decline of our city.

She is part of the problem. She’s just a single tooth on a single gear of a machine filled with such sprockets, all turning and rotating to accomplish the work of ruining the quality of life in this city. Idle youth with ready with access to drugs and no inclination to obey the law because they know they won’t be prosecuted anyway.

It’s a recipe for what we are living with right now. And she’s helping to cook it. [/quote]

Got it. So by the same logic, liquor stores, bars, and restaurants should be blamed when they are broken into, stolen from, and vandalized. You could rewrite your entire post replacing "pot" with "alcohol." If you are going to take a stand, at least don't be a hypocrite.[/quote]

Yes, keep trying to equate a restaurant that serves wine or cocktails with dinner or a bar that serves beer and pub food with pot stores with drug addled zombies loitering and pan handling in front all day long. Continue saying those things are EXACTLY the same.

Keep doing that. Please. [/quote]

Are you saying there is something wrong with the laws the council passed regarding these drugs? Perhaps they led to issues that contribute to crime?[/quote]

Most predominant issue leading to increased crime seems to be decreased arrests and decreased prosecution if you follow the crime statistics (thank you DC Crime Facts). Stop the catch and release, actually bother prosecuting people. If drugs are to be blamed, go with the illegal ones; basic cannabis isn't causing people to murder people anymore than alcohol is. PCP? Sure, but it's illegal. Drug wars over the drugs that are actually still illegal? Yes, absolutely.

Is smoking pot in public a nuisance? Yes, particularly the odor, though public drunkenness is a nuisance and drunk driving is dangerous and kills people. People in this thread are conflating basic cannabis with other kinds of drugs that cause other kinds of issues both in terms of behavior and in terms of illegal drug trade.

FWIW, I don't smoke or use cannabis whatsoever, I'm just irritated by faulty science like pretending alcohol isn't a drug too.[/quote]

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