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Since NYC has 'legalized' pot and authorized pot shops with vigorous endorsements from the NYC mayor and governor use and the smell is so bad/all over that tourists are complaining. It was supposed to be about the taxes from the pot shops but pot heads are buying else where. Daily/common use is so prevalent it affected a US Open tennis match with players calling the smell a distraction.
I was just in NYC and it was bad. People just walking down the street smoking like nothing.
It's getting like that in a lot of places ie people walking around in public smoking it like a cigarette. For some reason the pot smoker is hands off but if they are violating no smoking laws/ordinance fine them. Cigarette and cigar smokers have been catching more flak for years. Most places wouldn't tolerate someone walking around in public drinking hence open container laws. So why should a pothead be allowed to have a lit joint in public.
Part of the problem is the pot lobby was able to conflate pot safety(including smoke) with a civil rights issue. The libertarians won which is good but that means people also got the right to act stupid and pay the consequences for their actions. Now the potheads are conflating decriminalization with the right to smoke it anywhere-it's there way of giving the police the finger for something that would have them detained just a year ago to say the least.
Onething to note is that pot smoke has more than double the particulate matter in it than cigarette smoke. Which coincides the amount of respiratory issues in regular pot smokers. This still comes down to ignorant and selfish pot smokers/pot heads.
In Las Vegas pot is sold legally but it's still illegal to smoke it in public. People still do, though, getting caught is just like a traffic ticket. There has been some talk of opening pot lounges to get the smokers off the streets but that hasn't gotten very far.
It's like anything else. Once the genie is out of the bottle it's hard to put it back in.
In Las Vegas pot is sold legally but it's still illegal to smoke it in public. People still do, though, getting caught is just like a traffic ticket. There has been some talk of opening pot lounges to get the smokers off the streets but that hasn't gotten very far.
It's like anything else. Once the genie is out of the bottle it's hard to put it back in.
They were able to squash public cigarette smoking they can do the same with pot smokers. Sometimes I think police are afraid how a pothead would react if they stop them to give a smoking fine. Alot will cry like a baby and scream civil rights yada yada. For now it will be tough to shame pot heads but that's how public cigarette smoking was tempered.
They were able to squash public cigarette smoking they can do the same with pot smokers. Sometimes I think police are afraid how a pothead would react if they stop them to give a smoking fine. Alot will cry like a baby and scream civil rights yada yada. For now it will be tough to shame pot heads but that's how public cigarette smoking was tempered.
Public cigarette smoking is different: second-hand smoke can cause health problems. The worst that second-hand pot smoke will do is make you want some pizza.
Public cigarette smoking is different: second-hand smoke can cause health problems. The worst that second-hand pot smoke will do is make you want some pizza.
That's from older studies probably distributed by the pot lobby before they started making progress with legalization
More current studies indicate pot smoking/smoke worse.
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