Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed this thread is still going. There's a lot of whiny and sore losers in MD and throughout the metro area. Weed will never be criminalized in the metro area ever again. Deal with it.

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Anonymous wrote:After 26 pages we're still stuck on some people think other people should go to jail because they don't like the smell of pot.

Pretty much

Anonymous wrote:After 26 pages we're still stuck on some people think other people should go to jail because they don't like the smell of pot.

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Anonymous wrote:After 26 pages we're still stuck on some people think other people should go to jail because they don't like the smell of pot.

No. Some of us are just asking that people smoke in their homes and not out in public while acting like a strung-out fool. I didn't vote for pot to be legal but not because I want people to go to jail. I don't care what you do at home. Or let's open up hash bars like they have in Europe. I'm all for that. But it is out of control how commonplace it has become and how the entire city smells like shit all the time.

A vote against legalization is a vote for keeping it illegal, which means sending people to jail (Or at least subjecting them to the criminal justice system).

Do you feel there is something inherent about pot that it can't be regulated any other way than through criminalization? There are lots of nuisances in the big city -- noise, lights, trash. But we treat them as civil matters, we fine people. Why should the person who smokes pot in public be treated more harshly than the illegal dumper?

As far as I can tell, there is no regulation at all of pot since it's become legal. It's become a free-for-all. I am ok with fining people instead of arresting them but authorities have to actually enforce it. And they aren't. I don't live in DC but I work in the city and I've seen how disgusting its become with the smell and glassy-eyed stoners walking around everywhere. No thank you--I don't want that at home too. So maybe if people who want to smoke pot do it while respecting others (i.e. smoke at home, a party, a concert, whatever), I would be fine with it and would have voted to legalize it in Maryland. But since I don't smoke pot, and don't want to associate with those who do, I don't really care about it becoming legal.

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Anonymous wrote:After 26 pages we're still stuck on some people think other people should go to jail because they don't like the smell of pot.

No. Some of us are just asking that people smoke in their homes and not out in public while acting like a strung-out fool. I didn't vote for pot to be legal but not because I want people to go to jail. I don't care what you do at home. Or let's open up hash bars like they have in Europe. I'm all for that. But it is out of control how commonplace it has become and how the entire city smells like shit all the time.

A vote against legalization is a vote for keeping it illegal, which means sending people to jail (Or at least subjecting them to the criminal justice system).

Do you feel there is something inherent about pot that it can't be regulated any other way than through criminalization? There are lots of nuisances in the big city -- noise, lights, trash. But we treat them as civil matters, we fine people. Why should the person who smokes pot in public be treated more harshly than the illegal dumper?

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Anonymous wrote:After 26 pages we're still stuck on some people think other people should go to jail because they don't like the smell of pot.

No. Some of us are just asking that people smoke in their homes and not out in public while acting like a strung-out fool. I didn't vote for pot to be legal but not because I want people to go to jail. I don't care what you do at home. Or let's open up hash bars like they have in Europe. I'm all for that. But it is out of control how commonplace it has become and how the entire city smells like shit all the time.