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You can fine folks for smoking cigarettes in places it is not allowed. Including many/most public places. I'm curious why you think that couldn't be done with

by taeric 4y ago

You can fine folks for smoking cigarettes in places it is not allowed. Including many/most public places. I'm curious why you think that couldn't be done with pot? Public drunkenness is also not without consequences. By and large, you solve a lot of those not by focusing on stiffer penalties for folks doing them, but by giving them a place that they can do so legally. Is akin to a skate park. Good skate parks go a long long way to getting skateboards off of sidewalks.

nsxwolf 4y ago
It can't be done with pot, apparently, because it isn't being done. If there's any movement to reign in public pot usage I am not seeing it. I think people just immediately resigned to having the entire planet smell like a skunk forever. Illinois legalized it a couple years ago, and the legislature seemed very concerned with maximizing revenue from taxation and licensing and gave zero consideration to anything else.
- taeric 4y ago
  I'm in a place that has fairly high usage of it, I thought, but it is still notable when I smell it out in public. :( Where are you?
  - jeltz 4y ago
    In Stockholm which I guess has medium usage you can smell it all the time during the summer.
  - nsxwolf 4y ago
    Western Suburbs, and Chicago. It's pervasive anywhere people are!
vegai_ 4y ago
It seems that weed smell travels a lot farther than tobacco smoke. If I smell tobacco smoke, I can do a 360 degree turn in seconds to see immediately which direction I need to move 5 meters to avoid it. If I smell weed and want to get away from it, I usually have no idea where it's coming from.