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Anonymous wrote:Ignore. Walk a different way.

Should we then also just ignore public drunkenness? What's the difference between someone rolling on the floor because they're drunk or high? This isn't about whether someone should go to jail or not, but having basic respect for your fellow members of society and keeping our cities from becoming a total mess.

In OPs post, no one was rolling around on the floor. You do what you do when someone is smoking cigarettes in public and you don’t like the smell.

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever. It's fantastic that you don't have any real problems outside this annoyance. Count yourself blessed and be grateful.

Thisx1000

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever. It's fantastic that you don't have any real problems outside this annoyance. Count yourself blessed and be grateful.

So what if a neighbor brought their dog by your house to poop on your doorstep? Would you also just count that as your daily blessing and gratefully scoop their poop?

HAHA, as someone with a corner house in a very dog-centric neighborhood, do you realize how much dog shit is left in my yard? AND YES, I just deal with it and often clean it up myself, because the alternative is putting something down to repel the dogs, which could hurt them! What astonishes me is the number of people who toss a bag of picked up poo at a trash can, miss, and then walk away.

I'd take weed aroma any day (and I have a one year old). Get over yourselves, if your kids are dumb and/or messed up, it's because of your shitty genetics, not because you didn't lock up homeless people or teenagers partaking in a legal activity at a public bus stop. I'm sure Sidwell has drop off if you can afford it.

Anonymous wrote:Whatever. It's fantastic that you don't have any real problems outside this annoyance. Count yourself blessed and be grateful.

So what if a neighbor brought their dog by your house to poop on your doorstep? Would you also just count that as your daily blessing and gratefully scoop their poop?

Even before it was legalized, people smoked pot at my bus stop all the time. Police were nearby and did nothing. There was a playground right next to the bus stop too.

Why smoke at all when there are so many other ways to ingest marijuana (edibles come to mind)? Unless it's the smoking itself that's the addiction and the substance doesn't matter. AFAIK, the law says that you can grow a small amount of weed at home and not go to jail for it, not that you can smoke it in public places. This being DC, of course, the police and the mayor don't care beyond optics so the latter part of my last sentence will never, ever be enforced.

Smoking gives a different high than edibles do which many people prefer. Vape cartridges sometimes have harmful substances in them.

You didn't read the whole thread. Someone mentioned a conversation with a DC LEO who said something like, "Tell us if you see pot smoking in public. We can talk to the person. But we can't make an arrest."

So I wouldn't say never ever. 'Almost never' may be accurate though, sadly.

Anonymous wrote:Whatever. It's fantastic that you don't have any real problems outside this annoyance. Count yourself blessed and be grateful.

Thisx1000

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Anonymous wrote:I hate public weed smoking and would be mad if this was going on near my kid's school. I just shamed my neighbors about it. Take that crap inside. Yep, I'm Weed Karen. And I'm happy about it.

That being said, if he's close to the school and it's a drug free school zone, I'd ask the cops to say something to him.

Why do we want a populace that's all drugged up and high all the time?

We prefer one that is locked up?

DP. This is not the issue and you know it. No one is suggesting that public weed smokers get locked up. I and the other PPs are simply saying that the person shouldn't be doing it at a bus stop near a school or anywhere else in public for that matter.

People seem to think they can smoke weed wherever they want now that it's been decriminalized. That's not how this works.

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Why smoke at all when there are so many other ways to ingest marijuana (edibles come to mind)? Unless it's the smoking itself that's the addiction and the substance doesn't matter. AFAIK, the law says that you can grow a small amount of weed at home and not go to jail for it, not that you can smoke it in public places. This being DC, of course, the police and the mayor don't care beyond optics so the latter part of my last sentence will never, ever be enforced.

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Anonymous wrote:When I voted to decriminalize marijuana I thought it would lead to people smoking in private, just how you might enjoy a beer on your back porch after a long day of work. Instead you can smell it everywhere now: on sidewalks, on playgrounds, behind the wheel...

You thought there'd be no aroma in a densely populated city?

No, some pothead blowing smoke right in my kid's face at the bus stop on the way to school was not part of the bargain.

This sounds like hyperbole, but even if that's close to the truth, inform the police. Simple.

Whatever. It's fantastic that you don't have any real problems outside this annoyance. Count yourself blessed and be grateful.

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Anonymous wrote:keep em high, drunk , and uneducated.

And easily controlled.

This. I feel like part of the reason politicians are promoting recreational weed is to make the populace too languid to dissent.

Pretty sure we have learned in the past 15 years that talk radio and cable news are much more powerful means of controlling the populace.

To each their own
Rush Limbaugh for hotheads
And Mt. Rushmore for potheads