a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by user-inactivated
user-inactivated  ·  2509 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Shake it up. Offer up one somewhat unpopular opinion that you hold.

    Having pets is unnatural and strange.

Not unpopular: just unusual.

    Pot should be legal, but smoking it should not be.

Now that's interesting. Care to elaborate?





steve  ·  2509 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Care to elaborate?

I am a grumpy old man... I can't enjoy a summer afternoon in the park or a cool summer evening in my backyard without smelling weed. I don't think I'm being overly sensitive or prudish. Last night I put up a screen and a projector - my kids had some friends over to watch a movie in our backyard. How fun! until the neighbors started to blaze... I'm not trying to pick on weed necessarily - I don't like smelling cigarette smoke, cow manure, diesel exhaust, sulphur, or other industrial fumes either. It's just annoying that one person's consumption has to inflict discomfort on people in their vicinity.

.

So please consume marijuana - but just quit smoking it anywhere that affects other people - eat it, tincture it, SOMETHING... but smoke it? smoke? it boggles my mind.

goobster  ·  2509 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So your issue is not with marijuana... it is with "being a public nuisance."

Smoke anything, and someone else has to smell your smoke.

I get it. Good point. I'll vote for ya.

steve  ·  2509 days ago  ·  link  ·  

yep... the bummer is... the culture around weed in particular tends to be around smoking it... so I don't anticipate any changes any time soon. Yep there are edibles, and tinctures, and oils... but in the end.. who wants to say "pass the brownie"?

goobster  ·  2508 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I agree that the culture around the illegal use of weed, is largely smoking it. But here in WA, that culture changed overnight.

My wife is a weed smoker, and we were with friends the other night who were simply flabbergasted that she SMOKED it! None of them knew anyone who still smoked weed... they all imbibed in other forms.

But my wife is an old Deadhead traditionalist, and smokes very little (two tokes, twice a week). So calling her a "smoker" is way overstating her use.

But yeah... around here, in my Burner/Deadhead community? People went from smoking to ANY other form of intake almost overnight.

And passing the joint? Nobody shares any more. Now that there are so many carefully cultivated and mass-produced strains, everyone has their own particular favorite, and almost never smokes anyone else's stuff.

The culture has changed a LOT here. Very quickly.

user-inactivated  ·  2508 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Lol. People who have had brownies before. They would definitely say that.

rthomas6  ·  2507 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This makes sense. Like... smoke is bad for human lungs, period. Breathing smoke is always bad for you.

steve  ·  2507 days ago  ·  link  ·  

while this may be true... I kinda don't care what people choose to do to their own bodies... for me, the smoke is a "public" issue. It is very difficult to control smoke. If I'm BBQing, smoking a cigarette, or lighting a joint, people within several meters of me in every direction are going to know about it.

rthomas6  ·  2507 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Right, and because it's smoke, they're directly harming your health in a small but measurable way. They're causing you and your kids to breathe smoke.

steve  ·  2507 days ago  ·  link  ·  

maybe to some small extend... but mostly they're bugging me (aka "get off my lawn")