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I personally can't stand weed, mostly for the smell and allergic potential of public or shared-wall-dwelling smoking. At some level, it was a joy to move out o
by wanderfowl 11y ago
I personally can't stand weed, mostly for the smell and allergic potential of public or shared-wall-dwelling smoking. At some level, it was a joy to move out of Colorado, to an "illegal" place where public and apartment smoking is much more rare.
Even to me, with this admitted bias, this article is another great argument for 50 state legalization. Chasing legal weed across state lines is a huge resource-sink which wins us exactly nothing as a society. Just get it over with and legalize it everywhere, and use the funding you saved to step up enforcement of DUI laws, substance abuse help programs, and hell, fixing bridges and laying fiber.
- CyberDildonics 11y agoIs it even technically allowed to smoke inside those apartments?
- X-Istence 11y agoYes, it's legal to smoke inside an apartment, so long as your lease doesn't disallow it for example.
- dmoy 11y agoEven for complexes where it's disallowed, good luck getting it enforced. I get weed smoke coming in through the ventilation system from who knows where in my completely non-smoking building on a regular basis. Actually was the same before legalization too, and hasn't really increased, so this is sort of a non sequitur.
- TrevorJ 11y agoIf your landlord fails to enforce the lease agreement, you can probably use that to get out of the lease. Our complex recently had people complaining about this very thing and they have started getting much stricter about it thank goodness.
- dragonwriter 11y agoYou probably can't, unless your agreement expressly obliges the landlord to enforce the rule against other people rather merely than requiring you to follow the rule as a condition of being permitted to rent the apartment. This would be an unusual lease agreement.
- wanderfowl 11y agoIn Colorado, many communities have started to actually enforce this, in the same way that repeated noise violations can lead to eviction or non-renewal. Now that it's no longer a police issue, and just an "inconsiderate prick" issue, property managers can address it in house.
- dave2000 11y agoYou really think there's less weed smoking where it's illegal? How does that work? Drug laws work so it's next to impossible to obtain them? Fear of getting caught?
- DrScump 11y ago<You really think there's less weed smoking where it's illegal?> On this same thread, you wrote: "restrict gun sales and you reduce gun crime." So, why are the economics of banning guns vs. banning weed such opposites in your view?
- DCPOS_Anthony 11y agoSo guns are a drug now are they?
- dave2000 11y agoI don't see the connection between guns and drugs.
- mturmon 11y agoSure, there is less weed smoking where it's illegal. Aside from the factors you mention, there is an obvious one: people not doing something simply because it is against the law. People do make decisions on that basis.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> people not doing something simply because it is against the law. People do make decisions on that basis. Conversely, people also make decisions on the opposite basis -- doing things because they are prohibited.
- wingerlang 11y agoNot nearly the same amount do that, I assume.
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- gertef 11y agoI'd rather CO/WA/CA solve the public nuisance problem of smoking (we juuuust finished clearing most public airspace of cigarette smoke, and now MJ is bringing it back) before rolling out legalization nationwide. MJ smokers aren't advocating themselves persuasively.
- wanderfowl 11y agoThis is a big issue, I think. Concerts are really, really bad in Colorado these days. My hope is that widespread legality and availability of tinctures and edibiles and non-plant-containing vaporizing juice, there will be an increased number of ways for people to get high without being inconsiderate to the people around them.