Anonymous wrote:Remember, Democrats wanted this, you voted for it.
Also, it's about "equity" since minorities were committing the crime the most so instead of them stopping doing it, we'll just decriminalize it. Liberal thought process, just like with school standards

Former Speaker of the House, John Boehner, one of the most conservative Republicans and about white guy from Ohio, was the biggest champion of legalizing marijuana.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/us/politics/john-boehner-marijuana-cannabis.html

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Anonymous wrote:I voted against it for this reason.

Me too. And it is every city. It's like the 60s with cigarette smoke all over again.

+1
And driving while getting high!

But that’s OK because you know, the citizens voted for it and you know “equity”.

What does this have to do with “equity?” You say this like people will understand what you mean. Explain it to me like I am five.

Anonymous wrote:That's the smell of racial equity.

… wut

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Anonymous wrote:It's everywhere and it's gross. A sign of people who can't cope with life. I would vote for anyone who can criminality again. Noyjail, but a fine.

Fines are pointless. you are right. These folks can't cope with life. They won't magically care about paying a fine.

Different poster than you responded to. I agree with them, though, that marijuana should be illegal, but that doesn’t have to involve prison. If fines don’t work, what about:
community service?
mandated treatment?
house arrest with drug testing?

This is a complicated, difficult issue without a quick fix, but legalizing it so that we don’t even try to address the problem of marijuana usage certainly isn’t going to help any, either. And I consider marijuana to be a problem for society in two major ways:

1. As a psychotropic drug it impairs driving. Even though driving while impaired is illegal, with neither a legal standard defining what constitutes a level to cause impairment, nor a way to quantifiably measure the amount of marijuana that might be present to determine whether it meets the nonexistent standard, the law seems unenforceable.

2. As I mentioned in an earlier post, secondhand exposure is extremely dangerous for developing brains. We know it can cause problems with both mental health and cognitive functioning, and there really hasn’t been the time to determine all the impacts of long-term exposure to these more intense strains of cannabis. Not only is society losing untold amounts of their unrealized potential, but we are creating problems that we will have to solve in the future - (increased need for welfare, mental health facilities, prisons, etc.). Not to mention that sheer human decency ought to be enough to motivate us to protect vulnerable children.

Anonymous wrote:It's very simple. It's been very simple.
You -the DCUM world- have voted and supported this.

You don't want the entire city smelling like weed, urine, homeless all over the place, debauchery, car jackings (even at lunchtime!) Then you have to vote differently, and that would mean more of you accepting fate and voting Republican.

But the guilt trip and fear Democrats have cast a spell on you have given you that, ahead of rational thought. The path is there to clean it up. Until then, no one wants to hear your whining and crying, and you need to look in the mirror if any of the above happen to you.

I know what we could do. The city could hire a small staff of a few thousand workers to clean the city.

Anonymous wrote:It's everywhere and it's gross. A sign of people who can't cope with life. I would vote for anyone who can criminality again. Noyjail, but a fine.

Fines are pointless. you are right. These folks can't cope with life. They won't magically care about paying a fine.

Anonymous wrote:This is what you all voted for! I didn't understand why everyone got behind this. I didn't think you could just smoke it out in public walking down the street or have a car full of smoke (driving under the influence?) Why won't the police stop it? Don't need to arrest or throw them on the ground, but simply make them put it out, but they won't, and I don't understand why.
Also, it may be AAs that are smoking it in public, but I've been to plenty of events where it is majority white ppl and they are lighting up in public places too.

Because if anything goes wrong and police have to arrest someone, it gets filmed and goes viral as policy harassment or brutality. Police do not want to engage over something trifling like public smoking.

It's very simple. It's been very simple.
You -the DCUM world- have voted and supported this.

You don't want the entire city smelling like weed, urine, homeless all over the place, debauchery, car jackings (even at lunchtime!) Then you have to vote differently, and that would mean more of you accepting fate and voting Republican.

But the guilt trip and fear Democrats have cast a spell on you have given you that, ahead of rational thought. The path is there to clean it up. Until then, no one wants to hear your whining and crying, and you need to look in the mirror if any of the above happen to you.

Anonymous wrote:It IS an upgrade over cigarette smoke and it’s fine. Get over the it or move, Karen. There are far more important things to fret about.

I don't smoke tobacco or marijuana. I don't agree that marijuana smoke is better than cigarette smoke. I personally prefer the smell of tobacco. Marijuana smoke smell is awful.

It's everywhere and it's gross. A sign of people who can't cope with life. I would vote for anyone who can criminality again. Noyjail, but a fine.

Anonymous wrote:Remember, Democrats wanted this, you voted for it.
Also, it's about "equity" since minorities were committing the crime the most so instead of them stopping doing it, we'll just decriminalize it. Liberal thought process, just like with school standards

This is true.

You all got what you voted for.

It's not just DC. Been to NYC lately? It always smelled like urine, now it's got heavy pot notes in addition.

I voted to decriminalize. Cops were being disingenuous about enforcement. Then they stopped doing any work at all... I guess I had naively hoped that decriminalization would protect folks who weren't hurting anyone, but that there would be some guardrails on smoking openly in public and while driving etc. But no. Massive clouds wafting out of cars. There was a guy puffing away with his wife and toddler at playground I passed the other day.

DC cops never fail to miss the lowest bar.

Op, its nasty! But how did you vote?

Remember, Democrats wanted this, you voted for it.
Also, it's about "equity" since minorities were committing the crime the most so instead of them stopping doing it, we'll just decriminalize it. Liberal thought process, just like with school standards

Anonymous wrote:It IS an upgrade over cigarette smoke and it’s fine. Get over the it or move, Karen. There are far more important things to fret about.

It is NOT fine, it is much worse. It has many of the same health problems as tobacco (including exposure risk from secondhand smoke) PLUS cognitive/psychological problems.

If you are smelling this much pot in public, think about how much pot is being smoked inside people’s hones, around their kids. A child whose developing brain is exposed to years of pot smoke can have significant learning and mental health issues, that we’re only starting to study.

If you think behavior problems and low academic performance are an issue now, wait until a generation comes of age that we’ve allowed to be brain-damaged so that the marijuana industry could profit off of their parents getting high.