"The right to swing your arms in any direction ends where my nose begins." Thus, if my dopey neighbor smokes a joint and then accidentally runs his lawnmower all over my petunias, I'll press charges. But until then, it's none of my business.
It doesn’t bother you that one by one the states are making it perfectly legal to light up a noxious weed that makes one spacey and dopey?
Oh, no - It totally "bothers" me! It also "bothers" me that my neighbor lounges around on his back porch wearing a "wife-beater" and picking his teeth with a knife. Yeah, that's the ticket - let's legislate everything that "bothers" us!
What once was the coming of age past-time for rebellious teens holed up in a friend’s basement [edited for brevity] will now become a totally out in the public widespread activity that our kids, and those of us who HATE the aroma, will be exposed to.
So you want to incarcerate people - in some states, simple possession (without even the intent to sell) can land you in prison for literally years - just because you find the aroma annoying? Are you kidding?
Regards,
Nope. I’m not saying put pot smokers in prison but I have no problem with fines. And it’s not just “because I find the aroma annoying.” You think that’s the only thing wrong with it? It’s the fact that it’s a mind-altering drug that to indulge in produces SMOKE, you know, that awful stuff that IF it comes from the end of a cigarette people look at you like you’re an antichrist, only other people do not get unwanted contact buzz from it. It’s not mind-altering. It doesn’t make you lazy. It doesn’t kill young peoples brain cells (there’s medical reports out there proving this.) Hell if we are going to legalize marijuana then why not cocaine or amphetimines? Seriously. After all, it’s not MY business if someone prefers to do an upper as opposed to a downer (pot.)Why are we discriminating against certain illegal substances while making others perfectly legal?