Anonymous wrote:She gets no damages but judge bans neighbor from smoking pot in his own home

Hahahahahahaha

See you in court potheads

Anonymous wrote:In terms of Pot and cigarette smells this is fantastic!

However, this worries me on other ways that it will apply. If somebody doesn’t like the smell of a neighbors cooking, perfumes, incense.

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Anonymous wrote:Some people obviously love screwing others who they perceive to be lesser than human “potheads” and we can see that hate right here on full display. They are irrational people with a personal grudge. I can see echoes of a lingering racial animus that was exploited over the years to demonize marijuana and its users. It’s ok though. This is the last gasp of prohibitionists. They have lost and we are now free to live our lives without threat of imprisonment. This makes them very bitter lol!!

Pot legalization does not mean you can be a jerk. I'm pro legalization but anti smoking constantly in shared spaces or in a way that become a nuisance. Smoking tobacco is also legal (and should be) but that doesn't mean it's cool to do it in a way that makes it hard to impossible for other people to comfortably live their lives.

Everyone has an obligation to consider the impact of their actions on other people.

As you can see from some of the vitriolic posts above, this is about more than people facing a legitimate nuisance. There are some people who just hate “potheads” and want to complain about those who they think are inferior. The post above sees this as some proxy for “leftists” vs conservatives for example.

Many of the potheads I know are completely consumed with smoking pot. They spend every waking hour of every single day high. Who on earth wants to live near that?

Because the antecedent of “that” in this sentence is an actual human being, this makes you sound pretty heartless and like you think you’re a superior being, which you most definitely are not. You sound like the kind of person who would shake their cane at their neighbor if they had a different guy over every weekend. So what if somebody is high all the time? If it doesn’t harm you there is no reason to clutch your pearls at the thought of living next to them.

And I’m sure a lot of the people you know smoke pot without you knowing about it. You’d never know my husband smokes once a week.

As the judge ruled, people who live next to potheads have rights too.

Also, pot makes you boring. Sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:Cannabis will never be banned. This is just a short term feel good story. Inside they seethe because we can not longer be criminalized. In fact I can go buy some in a store! *sticks out tongue* HA!

You being addicted to weed is primarily hurting you, and then us secondarily, because your loss of competence and intelligence results in a less valuable and functional society.

Anonymous wrote:Cannabis will never be banned. This is just a short term feel good story. Inside they seethe because we can not longer be criminalized. In fact I can go buy some in a store! *sticks out tongue* HA!

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Anonymous wrote:Some people obviously love screwing others who they perceive to be lesser than human “potheads” and we can see that hate right here on full display. They are irrational people with a personal grudge. I can see echoes of a lingering racial animus that was exploited over the years to demonize marijuana and its users. It’s ok though. This is the last gasp of prohibitionists. They have lost and we are now free to live our lives without threat of imprisonment. This makes them very bitter lol!!

Pot legalization does not mean you can be a jerk. I'm pro legalization but anti smoking constantly in shared spaces or in a way that become a nuisance. Smoking tobacco is also legal (and should be) but that doesn't mean it's cool to do it in a way that makes it hard to impossible for other people to comfortably live their lives.

Everyone has an obligation to consider the impact of their actions on other people.

As you can see from some of the vitriolic posts above, this is about more than people facing a legitimate nuisance. There are some people who just hate “potheads” and want to complain about those who they think are inferior. The post above sees this as some proxy for “leftists” vs conservatives for example.

Many of the potheads I know are completely consumed with smoking pot. They spend every waking hour of every single day high. Who on earth wants to live near that?

Because the antecedent of “that” in this sentence is an actual human being, this makes you sound pretty heartless and like you think you’re a superior being, which you most definitely are not. You sound like the kind of person who would shake their cane at their neighbor if they had a different guy over every weekend. So what if somebody is high all the time? If it doesn’t harm you there is no reason to clutch your pearls at the thought of living next to them.

And I’m sure a lot of the people you know smoke pot without you knowing about it. You’d never know my husband smokes once a week.

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Anonymous wrote:Some people obviously love screwing others who they perceive to be lesser than human “potheads” and we can see that hate right here on full display. They are irrational people with a personal grudge. I can see echoes of a lingering racial animus that was exploited over the years to demonize marijuana and its users. It’s ok though. This is the last gasp of prohibitionists. They have lost and we are now free to live our lives without threat of imprisonment. This makes them very bitter lol!!

Pot legalization does not mean you can be a jerk. I'm pro legalization but anti smoking constantly in shared spaces or in a way that become a nuisance. Smoking tobacco is also legal (and should be) but that doesn't mean it's cool to do it in a way that makes it hard to impossible for other people to comfortably live their lives.

Everyone has an obligation to consider the impact of their actions on other people.

As you can see from some of the vitriolic posts above, this is about more than people facing a legitimate nuisance. There are some people who just hate “potheads” and want to complain about those who they think are inferior. The post above sees this as some proxy for “leftists” vs conservatives for example.

Many of the potheads I know are completely consumed with smoking pot. They spend every waking hour of every single day high. Who on earth wants to live near that?

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Anonymous wrote:Folks, this case is neither a "dangerous precedent" nor a useless outlier.

The plaintiff in this case was able to show that the pot smoke was pervasive enough to impact her health. That's going to be quite rare. This is not going to enable someone to sue their neighbor because they don't like the occasional scent of pot or cigarette smoke. It's clear this case involved an incredibly heavy smoker who was smoking all the time, and that the proximity of the homes was so close that this resulted in pot smoke IN the plaintiffs home all the time. Most in-home pot use will never rise to this level. If you smoke pot at home, even in your backyard or on your front porch, it's very unlikely this case could be used to sue you unless you are smoking all the time and in such a way as to fill your neighbors house with pot all the time.

And no, a vegan could not sue their neighbor for BBQing, unless they could show that the BBQing was so frequent and the smoke from it so pervasive as to cause health issues. Won't happen.

Think of it like noise. If you could occasionally hear your neighbor talking loudly, playing music, or hosting people, but it was at a generally "normal" level and only disrupted you very occasionally, could you sue them into silence? No, people are allowed to generate some noise in their normal lives. But if your neighbor was blasting bass-heavy music 24/7, rattling your walls and preventing you from sleeping or functioning, could you sue them. Yes, of course.

This person was engaging in the pot version of 24/7 music turned up to 11. Don't do that.

I need people to re-read the bolded. People are making this out to be a bigger deal than it is.

Maybe not a landmark decision legally. But in many parts of white collar DC pot smokers are now on notice that for the low, low cost of a court filing fee they will be publicly identified as a frequent marijuana user and a inconsiderate neighbor. Not career enhancing for those early in their careers, work for the feds, or have a security clearance.

So now people are threatening lawsuits just to be jerks? Who cares if your neighbor smokes pot in their own house (and you're not, like the plaintiff in this case, actually harmed other than being annoyed about it)?

Living near potheads is a nightmare. I hope they all get dragged into court and get publicly marked as ***holes.

Well the joke in on you because cannabis is now mainstream and you will only make yourself seem unhinged.

I think most of us are pretty pleased the woman who sued won. Seems like a victory for everyone except pot addicts.

The majority of DC residents obviously don’t agree with you and this case doesn’t establish a legal precedent so this is bit of a hollow victory for hate filled people like you. Modern culture is increasingly becoming cannabis friendly whether you like it or not.

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Anonymous wrote:Folks, this case is neither a "dangerous precedent" nor a useless outlier.

The plaintiff in this case was able to show that the pot smoke was pervasive enough to impact her health. That's going to be quite rare. This is not going to enable someone to sue their neighbor because they don't like the occasional scent of pot or cigarette smoke. It's clear this case involved an incredibly heavy smoker who was smoking all the time, and that the proximity of the homes was so close that this resulted in pot smoke IN the plaintiffs home all the time. Most in-home pot use will never rise to this level. If you smoke pot at home, even in your backyard or on your front porch, it's very unlikely this case could be used to sue you unless you are smoking all the time and in such a way as to fill your neighbors house with pot all the time.

And no, a vegan could not sue their neighbor for BBQing, unless they could show that the BBQing was so frequent and the smoke from it so pervasive as to cause health issues. Won't happen.

Think of it like noise. If you could occasionally hear your neighbor talking loudly, playing music, or hosting people, but it was at a generally "normal" level and only disrupted you very occasionally, could you sue them into silence? No, people are allowed to generate some noise in their normal lives. But if your neighbor was blasting bass-heavy music 24/7, rattling your walls and preventing you from sleeping or functioning, could you sue them. Yes, of course.

This person was engaging in the pot version of 24/7 music turned up to 11. Don't do that.

I need people to re-read the bolded. People are making this out to be a bigger deal than it is.

Maybe not a landmark decision legally. But in many parts of white collar DC pot smokers are now on notice that for the low, low cost of a court filing fee they will be publicly identified as a frequent marijuana user and a inconsiderate neighbor. Not career enhancing for those early in their careers, work for the feds, or have a security clearance.

So now people are threatening lawsuits just to be jerks? Who cares if your neighbor smokes pot in their own house (and you're not, like the plaintiff in this case, actually harmed other than being annoyed about it)?

Living near potheads is a nightmare. I hope they all get dragged into court and get publicly marked as ***holes.

Well the joke in on you because cannabis is now mainstream and you will only make yourself seem unhinged.

I think most of us are pretty pleased the woman who sued won. Seems like a victory for everyone except pot addicts.