I’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 pol

I’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.