The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization

Re:The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization by mrmagooey on Saturday July 26, 2014 @07:34PM (#8091266)

You can't up the ante and claim it's analogous. Burning a tyre releases a tremendous amount of thick black smoke, burning a joint releases several orders of magnitude less smoke, and unless you're within 10m of the person you realistically are not going to be affected.

For effect: "What if someone built a rocket launch pad next to my house and it was directly affecting my health?"

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Re:The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization by nick_riviera on Saturday July 26, 2014 @07:50PM (#8091324)

Doesn't that depend on how far my neighbour is away? Perhaps we have 500m long gardens...

The analogy is valid as is "pissing over my fence onto my head", "kicking a football through my greenhouse", "catapulting dog shit into my garden" etc etc.

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Re:The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization by lfuller on Sunday July 27, 2014 @01:34AM (#8092084)

A smell that you don't like isn't comparable to destruction of your property or having toxic waste thrown on you.

I have a neighbour that often cooks curry; I can't stand the smell of curry. Even though the smell comes in through my windows, I don't have the right to force them to stop cooking. I just close my windows.

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