Anonymous wrote:I smoke a blunt after work walking down mass ave to the metro every day.

I’ve had some People (professionals, men/women) ask if they can get a hit.

Blazing and walking in public is wonderful.

Set the ganj free.

Can you still perform?

Anonymous wrote:Someone was smoking a joint in my metro station (on the platform) today at 8am. Seems like legalization has made the stoners pretty brazen.

Let the ganj free

Someone was smoking a joint in my metro station (on the platform) today at 8am. Seems like legalization has made the stoners pretty brazen.

I smoke a blunt after work walking down mass ave to the metro every day.

I’ve had some People (professionals, men/women) ask if they can get a hit.

Blazing and walking in public is wonderful.

Set the ganj free.

There were some folks sitting in a car outside of my house smoking pot. I got out the garden hose. They moved.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Adams Morgan. The odor is pretty bad here. I have had to threaten several fellow owners in our condo with lawsuits because their tenants were smoking it, and you could smell it in our unit. They are now enforcing their non smoking leases.

Columbia Heights really smells, and the Green line often does as well. I see people smoking it in cars, and have seen people walking out of accidents theyve just been in who reek. Its out of hand. All of these people are just self medicating for depression. I didnt vite for it, because I come from a part of the country where it's popular, and I've seen what it does to people. Years lost to the mellow.

I wish I hadn't voted for it. I'm not a liberal--more a libertarian. I thought it would help people avoid lives lost to mischief criminal records. I expected the people who enjoy smoking pot to be far more respectful however. Ugh.

My attitude towards pot is that it's largely harmless to the greater society but by keeping it an illegal substance helps keep a lid on it. In other words, keep it illegal but look the other way most of the time. I wonder if decriminalizing it is only jumping out of the frying pan into the fire?

I find it very intriguing that we've had massive social and legal crackdowns on cigarette smoking but have done the complete reverse with marijuana. It makes no sense to me.

Well we know with some confidence now that cigarettes are far more addictive and harmful than pot is. Same is true for alcohol.

But pot is not benign either though for adults there isn't a lot of evidence it is harmful.

But the impacts on non users from alcohol and cigarette use are far greater than the impacts from marijuana use which is why this thread is really silly and the OP's concerns have more to do with social and political sensitivities than any actual public health or social concerns.

But we long ago normalized drunks and smokers and some people can't accept equal status for stoners I guess.

Pot is a gateway drug. I'm for strong enforcement, but without major criminal penalties. Like with tobacco or alcoholism, these people need to be helped, not necessarily jailed.

If you think DC smells like pot, don't go to Portland.

I guess from cheech and chong we think pot smoking is "cute". When evidence accumulates of the real damage it causes, like putting burnt lungs on cigarette packages, maybe people will think differently. I support it as a choice, but I don't think it's especially cute. I hung out with a lot of stoners in college - and by and large a lot of them were kind of selfish asses who squandered great potential and have gone on to other addictive behaviours or long struggling journeys to get on their feet. Do it in your home, but doesn't trump laws on driving under the influence or public consumption or even common sense, decency and courtesy to families and children.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Adams Morgan. The odor is pretty bad here. I have had to threaten several fellow owners in our condo with lawsuits because their tenants were smoking it, and you could smell it in our unit. They are now enforcing their non smoking leases.

Columbia Heights really smells, and the Green line often does as well. I see people smoking it in cars, and have seen people walking out of accidents theyve just been in who reek. Its out of hand. All of these people are just self medicating for depression. I didnt vite for it, because I come from a part of the country where it's popular, and I've seen what it does to people. Years lost to the mellow.

I wish I hadn't voted for it. I'm not a liberal--more a libertarian. I thought it would help people avoid lives lost to mischief criminal records. I expected the people who enjoy smoking pot to be far more respectful however. Ugh.

My attitude towards pot is that it's largely harmless to the greater society but by keeping it an illegal substance helps keep a lid on it. In other words, keep it illegal but look the other way most of the time. I wonder if decriminalizing it is only jumping out of the frying pan into the fire?

I find it very intriguing that we've had massive social and legal crackdowns on cigarette smoking but have done the complete reverse with marijuana. It makes no sense to me.

Well we know with some confidence now that cigarettes are far more addictive and harmful than pot is. Same is true for alcohol.

But pot is not benign either though for adults there isn't a lot of evidence it is harmful.

But the impacts on non users from alcohol and cigarette use are far greater than the impacts from marijuana use which is why this thread is really silly and the OP's concerns have more to do with social and political sensitivities than any actual public health or social concerns.

But we long ago normalized drunks and smokers and some people can't accept equal status for stoners I guess.

Are you a regular pot user? You sound like one because you sound like the bitter hardcore cigarette smokers defending their habit. From the perspective of a non pot user it seems highly addictive, after all, that would explain why there are many regular pot users. Who imbibe all the time. We can debate how addictive pot is versus cigarettes but I do well remember my high school and college years and there's no question some people developed an unhealthy dependence on pot. That's why they were called stoners.

Your attempt to dismiss this thread as silly is likely only reflective of your denial that pot has issues of its own and that it's simply not a healthy substance. Our society does not normalize drunks, if anything, we have severe legal penalties for people who overstep the boundaries while drunk. We don't normalize cigarette smokers, if anything we have castigated them as morally weak and have pushed through large scale social crackdowns on cigarette usage (which is why the smoking rates have dropped substantially). But what is happening is that pot usage is being normalized and it seems like the more we normalize it the more and more people are smoking pot more intensively/regularly. It will be interesting to see the long term implications of this.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Adams Morgan. The odor is pretty bad here. I have had to threaten several fellow owners in our condo with lawsuits because their tenants were smoking it, and you could smell it in our unit. They are now enforcing their non smoking leases.

Columbia Heights really smells, and the Green line often does as well. I see people smoking it in cars, and have seen people walking out of accidents theyve just been in who reek. Its out of hand. All of these people are just self medicating for depression. I didnt vite for it, because I come from a part of the country where it's popular, and I've seen what it does to people. Years lost to the mellow.

I wish I hadn't voted for it. I'm not a liberal--more a libertarian. I thought it would help people avoid lives lost to mischief criminal records. I expected the people who enjoy smoking pot to be far more respectful however. Ugh.

My attitude towards pot is that it's largely harmless to the greater society but by keeping it an illegal substance helps keep a lid on it. In other words, keep it illegal but look the other way most of the time. I wonder if decriminalizing it is only jumping out of the frying pan into the fire?

I find it very intriguing that we've had massive social and legal crackdowns on cigarette smoking but have done the complete reverse with marijuana. It makes no sense to me.

Well we know with some confidence now that cigarettes are far more addictive and harmful than pot is. Same is true for alcohol.

But pot is not benign either though for adults there isn't a lot of evidence it is harmful.

But the impacts on non users from alcohol and cigarette use are far greater than the impacts from marijuana use which is why this thread is really silly and the OP's concerns have more to do with social and political sensitivities than any actual public health or social concerns.

But we long ago normalized drunks and smokers and some people can't accept equal status for stoners I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Adams Morgan. The odor is pretty bad here. I have had to threaten several fellow owners in our condo with lawsuits because their tenants were smoking it, and you could smell it in our unit. They are now enforcing their non smoking leases.

Columbia Heights really smells, and the Green line often does as well. I see people smoking it in cars, and have seen people walking out of accidents theyve just been in who reek. Its out of hand. All of these people are just self medicating for depression. I didnt vite for it, because I come from a part of the country where it's popular, and I've seen what it does to people. Years lost to the mellow.

I wish I hadn't voted for it. I'm not a liberal--more a libertarian. I thought it would help people avoid lives lost to mischief criminal records. I expected the people who enjoy smoking pot to be far more respectful however. Ugh.

My attitude towards pot is that it's largely harmless to the greater society but by keeping it an illegal substance helps keep a lid on it. In other words, keep it illegal but look the other way most of the time. I wonder if decriminalizing it is only jumping out of the frying pan into the fire?

I find it very intriguing that we've had massive social and legal crackdowns on cigarette smoking but have done the complete reverse with marijuana. It makes no sense to me.

I live in Adams Morgan. The odor is pretty bad here. I have had to threaten several fellow owners in our condo with lawsuits because their tenants were smoking it, and you could smell it in our unit. They are now enforcing their non smoking leases.

Columbia Heights really smells, and the Green line often does as well. I see people smoking it in cars, and have seen people walking out of accidents theyve just been in who reek. Its out of hand. All of these people are just self medicating for depression. I didnt vite for it, because I come from a part of the country where it's popular, and I've seen what it does to people. Years lost to the mellow.

Same in Mt. Pleasant a few blocks to your north. I am SO sick of the smell of pot. It is EVERYWHERE. When we open our windows in good weather, the waft of weed is pervasive. Can't tell whether it is from the group house across the street, the small time dealers 5 houses down, or the neighbor's teen son's basement rec room---or all of the above?
Got on the Green Line heading north from Gallery Place last week and the train car stank of pot. Who the heck smokes dope on the metro car??
Then---this is my favorite---we got our groceries delivered last week and the two women who brought it were definitely "lost to the mellow" and the brown paper grocery bags stank so badly of weed that it felt like you could get a contact high just from standing in our pantry by the time we got all the bags brought in. My teens keep looking at me sidewise to see if I knew what the smell was. I finally said, "Oh my god! How much pot were those women SMOKING?!" and my teen boys totally cracked up.

Anonymous wrote:I live in Adams Morgan. The odor is pretty bad here. I have had to threaten several fellow owners in our condo with lawsuits because their tenants were smoking it, and you could smell it in our unit. They are now enforcing their non smoking leases.

Columbia Heights really smells, and the Green line often does as well. I see people smoking it in cars, and have seen people walking out of accidents theyve just been in who reek. Its out of hand. All of these people are just self medicating for depression. I didnt vite for it, because I come from a part of the country where it's popular, and I've seen what it does to people. Years lost to the mellow.

I wish I hadn't voted for it. I'm not a liberal--more a libertarian. I thought it would help people avoid lives lost to mischief criminal records. I expected the people who enjoy smoking pot to be far more respectful however. Ugh.

I live in Adams Morgan. The odor is pretty bad here. I have had to threaten several fellow owners in our condo with lawsuits because their tenants were smoking it, and you could smell it in our unit. They are now enforcing their non smoking leases.

Columbia Heights really smells, and the Green line often does as well. I see people smoking it in cars, and have seen people walking out of accidents theyve just been in who reek. Its out of hand. All of these people are just self medicating for depression. I didnt vite for it, because I come from a part of the country where it's popular, and I've seen what it does to people. Years lost to the mellow.

Anonymous wrote:This is very interesting. I am already tempted to support any initiative to rescind the current law however, before moving to what you say. You make a strong argument, but I feel I have already been tricked once. Police need to strongly enforce what we currently have before we move to anything new. The city should also publicize where you can /cannot smoke weed. There is clearly so much confusion. If they cannot get a bead on the current situation, I dread anything new being introduced. That " reeks", pun intended.

thanks! It just seems that DC got the short end of the stick, they could have a bustling market with millions in tax revenue and better enforcement (clearer guidelines/regulations on how the market works) and instead are living in limbo and no one is happy. Right now it is a free for all, there is no regulation for example consumers are buying from vendors, who are often selling rejected product from states that have a regulated recreational market. These pop-ups that happen everyday of the week in the city is what I suspect is the cause when folks are getting strong weed smells in the city. Vendors fill private homes/ empty retail, and sell large amount of product, lots of folks coming and going from DC, VA, & MD. Every party I have attended, you could smell down the block. This is where most of the enforcement is atm, finding and stopping the pop-up events, busting vendors, not consumers. I have seen many vendors come and go over the last several months, many pop-up parties have had to change locations, with heavy enforcement beginning over the summer, so I can tell you that the police in the district are busy. If there was a legal market, these vendors would have to apply to set-up shop, and only do so in appropriately zoned places, have occupancy and other life saving regulations to be met... I could go on and on, but honestly, just the money for the city that is being missed out on alone would make a fully realized market worth it!