Anonymous
Post 05/14/2024 11:19     Subject: SO sick of weed smoke everywhere
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I voted against because I understand humans. Too many are unable to exercise good sense. So we all have to suffer. Over and over.


You’re willing to lock someone up because you don’t like a certain smell and yet you criticize other people for lack of “good sense”? Good thing you lost the vote.


PP said nothing about locking people up. How about citations? Fines? Enforcing impaired driving laws?
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2024 11:18     Subject: SO sick of weed smoke everywhere
Anonymous wrote:Windows rolled up sitting a lights I can smell it coming out of other cars. Can someone explain to me how smoking weed and driving is totally legal?


I know that in DC they don't enforce laws but I smell weed coming from cars in VA all the time, it's always easy to spot the car. FCPD is always looking to arrest drunks can't they bust the potheads too?
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2024 11:17     Subject: SO sick of weed smoke everywhere
Anonymous wrote:I have the same problem with car exhaust. It's absolutely *everywhere.*



Not these days.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2024 11:08     Subject: SO sick of weed smoke everywhere
Capitalism works because we just let society deal with the externalities
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2024 11:04     Subject: SO sick of weed smoke everywhere
Anonymous wrote:In my lifetime I’ve been promised that lotteries, casinos, & legalized weed were all going to bring in so much money to the government that our public schools would become gleaming palaces of learning. Guess what? Kids are more stupid than ever.


To be fair, that’s because we’ve sidelined direct instruction, put all kids together, and raised expectations without recognizing that it’s family expectations who make the kid, not school's.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2024 10:52     Subject: SO sick of weed smoke everywhere
In my lifetime I’ve been promised that lotteries, casinos, & legalized weed were all going to bring in so much money to the government that our public schools would become gleaming palaces of learning. Guess what? Kids are more stupid than ever.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2024 10:24     Subject: SO sick of weed smoke everywhere
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I voted against because I understand humans. Too many are unable to exercise good sense. So we all have to suffer. Over and over.


You’re willing to lock someone up because you don’t like a certain smell and yet you criticize other people for lack of “good sense”? Good thing you lost the vote.


Ah, you demonstrate my point exactly! A person unable to help going too far with something.

No, I dont want to lock anyone up but, so you know, good sense would be getting high in your home occasionally. Not freaking using daily in your car and the woods.

Like I said, humans can’t help but to go too far.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2024 10:08     Subject: Re:SO sick of weed smoke everywhere
Anonymous wrote:To me, it's getting unbearable. It's just as annoying and disgusting as cigarette smoke used to be. I rarely encounter someone smoking cigarettes now but it's like we replaced that with weed. It's everywhere. I've even smelled it in lobbies of office buildings.


I even encountered the smell in the gym of an important hospital in VA. Not sure if a the surgeons or the trainers were having a party upstairs.

Anonymous
Post 05/14/2024 09:59     Subject: SO sick of weed smoke everywhere
Anonymous wrote:I voted against because I understand humans. Too many are unable to exercise good sense. So we all have to suffer. Over and over.


You’re willing to lock someone up because you don’t like a certain smell and yet you criticize other people for lack of “good sense”? Good thing you lost the vote.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2024 09:56     Subject: SO sick of weed smoke everywhere
Anonymous wrote:Legalization hasn't brought anything worthwhile to D.C. Crime is up, government revenues are still tight, and public education is still a disaster.


It’s keeping me out of jail so that’s a pretty large positive in my book. Nobody cares about your dislike of a smell. Grow up.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2024 09:56     Subject: SO sick of weed smoke everywhere
I voted against because I understand humans. Too many are unable to exercise good sense. So we all have to suffer. Over and over.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2024 09:48     Subject: SO sick of weed smoke everywhere
Legalization hasn't brought anything worthwhile to D.C. Crime is up, government revenues are still tight, and public education is still a disaster.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2024 09:32     Subject: Re:SO sick of weed smoke everywhere
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't get being out and about smoking and getting high.


It’s not always that people are smoking while out. They reek of the smell from smoking at home. It permeates everything…. clothes, hair, purses. I was at giant and got on an elevator with a fellow shopper who just reeked of pot. Made me want to vomit.


They reeked of freedom!
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2024 08:43     Subject: SO sick of weed smoke everywhere
Anonymous wrote:Yep, it’s everywhere. My elementary kid (whose school is near a couple of major roads) came home the other day with her jacket smelling like pot from being outside at recess. You can’t drive anywhere without smelling it.

I was in favor of legalization… but can’t we have something in between “go to jail for years” and “everywhere you go smells like pot”? Make it illegal to use in public and enforce that. AT LEAST enforce no pot smoking while driving (or in cars at all, a la open container laws).


Nope. Not gonna happen. Legalization is a curse.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2024 08:42     Subject: Re:SO sick of weed smoke everywhere
Anonymous wrote:I don't get being out and about smoking and getting high.


It’s not always that people are smoking while out. They reek of the smell from smoking at home. It permeates everything…. clothes, hair, purses. I was at giant and got on an elevator with a fellow shopper who just reeked of pot. Made me want to vomit.