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> Nobody wants their kids to share a park with potheads I see this as no different than alcohol or tobacco (which you also called out) Growing up and not havi
by cheeze 3y ago
> Nobody wants their kids to share a park with potheads
I see this as no different than alcohol or tobacco (which you also called out)
Growing up and not having a place to smoke, we'd always go to a park. But we'd go deep into the woods, etc. last thing we wanted to do was inconvenience someone else, leading to us getting caught.
Same is true of when we drank booze. No need to do it in front of a family.
- pyuser583 3y agoI’m talking about parks I can’t take my family to because of how much drinking and pot smoking is going on - not kids smoking the middle of the forest. The police give warnings, then only after a thousand warning give tickets. But at the end of the day, these parks are not usable because of “partying.” When I had kids I took pride in living in a lower income neighborhood. I didn’t want to be part of “white flight.” But park problem went from being a nuisance to a big problem when COVID hit. Parks were one of the only places kids could go. Now the kids are older I’m looking forward to leaving the soulless suburbs where all houses look the same. But public drinking and drug use made the public spaces in lower income neighborhoods unusable. Legalizing pot won’t help or hurt at all. But some people with convictions for possession deserve to have a light and temporary black mark on their record.