It also imbues and latches itself onto to whatever is around you. Now legalization has people smoking it in my apartment complex or at restaurants and the smell just lingers around my house or on your clothes when your near it.
And then Every weed smoker I brought this up to told me tough luck.
Both suck though, I agree.
> Cigarettes only smell when being lit
Of course, smoked cannabis is the same. Whatever the smoke touches will leave some sort of residue and it can smell. In my opinion the "stale cannabis" smell is more pleasant than the "stale tobacco" smell, but different people are sensitive to different things.
At least cigarette smell is agreed to be distasteful around others.
Smokers have gotten better at making sure they don’t smoke right in front of your face. The amount of assholes I’ve seen light up weed in front of you though and then tell you to piss of when politely asking them to smoke somewhere else trumps the cigarette smokers by far
Tough luck.
I also dislike coffee breath, cigarette smoke, the smell of energy drinks, cinnamon chewing gum, perfumes, beer, dog shit, fertilizers, some garden flowers, car exhausts, ...
But on the bright side, there will be more variety in weed strains. They do smell differently. Some really are nasty, some are very pleasant. I absolutely love the smell of hashish, but I guess that's still gonna be rare.
There's no such thing as a "pleasant" weed smoke. You only like it because you're smoking it.
I guess, apart from indoor smoking without proper ventilation (illegal in Germany), car exhausts are the only other thing which should be illegal, because of the huge burden on public health and the objective impact on another's life. If I have to tolerate even car exhausts, you have to tolerate all the weed stink. I would gladly sacrifice weed for a car ban.
I don't smoke. But you need friends with better dope, or stop hot boxing.
And I live in country with already legal and easily accessible weed with a wide variety of strains. I don't think I'm just smelling skunk weed.
I can tell when my neighbour has potato or prawns for dinner. And anyone in this apartment building can smell the burnt garlic. I like garlic smell but not burnt garlic smell.
In any case nobody cares what you think, about MJ, sorry but not sorry. If this were true we wouldn't have highly deadly/poisonous substances such as alcohol around.
But ooo man the moral panic over plants nature provides
It all just screams fake moral outrage to keep people buying man-made vices
Either it's okay for adults to consent to activities that don't harm others or its not. People should have the right to choose what to do with their bodies, and the legal system should have to ability to disincentivize antisocial behavior in ways that are productive i.e. that actually reduce it.
The antisocial behavior is not people selling/smoking a joint or having/selling consensual sex -- and while it might be associated with them, the government should be tackling those other, actual problems instead.
And this middle ground does that. You still can smoke weed if you want to and obtain it. But the government does not have any responsibility to facilitate you getting it.
Making the production, trafficking and sale illegal disincentivizes consumption without actually prosecuting the consumer.
Either you don't know what a perfect ban is or you don't know what perfect means.
I totally agree. It is, however a flawed argument in the context of legalization. One of the arguments for the legalization by the health ministry is that prohibition has been ineffective, factually not avoiding or even reducing (excess) weed consumption (among minors). Prohibition has criminalized many people for their consumption (via necessary circumstances such as possession), at the same time often denying help to those consumers who needed it.
The goals of drug policy should be: - help consumers to avoid or treat harmful consumption, especially minors - do not criminalize adult citizens who do no harm to others
Neither of these goals have been achieved by prohibition. Legalization is not going to help on the first point either, but might make it easier.
In the context of the second point: prohibition has been a nasty vehicle for arbitrary, often racist policing. Given that prohibition is not realistically possible in full consequence, the inherent tools of criminalizing alleged drug users are often applied to specific groups only, often for racist motives. Throwing around cocaine at the company party of your startup will hardly be punished, whereas the immigrant neighbor ends up in jail for smoking a joint.