Weed smells much better than tobacco smoke
That’s like saying dog poop smells better than cat poop. They’re both shit
There’s a reason why a lot of us in the 70s called dope “skunk.” 
That second hand smoke also puts us at risk of losing our jobs if your job depends on passing random drug tests. Tests have show you can get a high from second hand smoke and you can test positive for drugs.
That’s crazy. I knew people who had to pass drug tests and actually smoked weed directly without testing positive. Of course this was 20 years ago, maybe the tests are better these days.
That second hand smoke also puts us at risk of losing our jobs if your job depends on passing random drug tests. Tests have show you can get a high from second hand smoke and you can test positive for drugs.
That’s crazy. I knew people who had to pass drug tests and actually smoked weed directly without testing positive. Of course this was 20 years ago, maybe the tests are better these days.
I think they still test using gas chromatograph and/or mass spectrometry. It all depends on how sensitive the settings are on those two testing devices.
Weed smells much better than tobacco smoke.
I can’t tolerate tobacco smoke and will cross the road if someone ahead is smoking. The smoke from weed is only very slightly better but the sweet smell makes me nauseous.
Weed smells much better than tobacco smoke
That’s like saying dog poop smells better than cat poop. They’re both shit
Not even close. To me the smell of marijuana is nice and almost pure-like but that skunk stuff is the real killer.
Like others have posted, pot is so prevalent around here that people tend to smoke it in cars while driving to the point of being sickening. What is the appeal?
Out here in the sticks, at least one chairlift ride per outing in the winter your smelling skunk from top to bottom. Ski through the trees, you get the smell again. The good thing, I have a 12 year old. He and his friends see, smell and witness dope smokers weekly in the winter. In the summer they see the dopers living in filth out the drainages because they can’t hold a job. To a kid they make fun of dope smokers, young and old, local and visitors. They see those who do it as losers with no future. Maybe legalization in Colorado is a good thing. Our kid are seeing just how stupid most who do it are. That includes the adults from out of state who show up, eat too much edible and have to call 911 because they are hallucinating.
And before the ST stoners get angry and mention alcohol, they also make fun of the drunks.
Here in Colorado, you smell it everywhere. And it’s not legal in public places. You smell it at the park, smell it on the bike trails. I’ve seen and smelled it coming from peoples cars. I don’t go to concerts anymore because of the abundance. And the worst is driving through the areas where the grow house warehouses are. The whole neighborhoods smell.
I actually am for legalization, but I do believe we have to enforce the no smoking in public part so that those of us that don’t want to be around it don’t have to…
I think it is sad that I can’t take my family to any of the public festivals or events in downtown because of this. And I really hate that I can’t even go to concerts inside (like at the Pepsi Center) because people even smoke inside there and no one (security) will enforce the no smoking laws.
Maybe legalization in Colorado is a good thing. Our kid are seeing just how stupid most who do it are.
It isn’t legal in British Columbia but the police turn a blind eye and I am hoping that with so much smoke around, it will actually be a turn off to most young people. I think a lot of the appeal to a certain group is that it was illegal but if it’s legal and they see the high percentage of deadbeats smoking, they will think twice…
Maybe legalization in Colorado is a good thing. Our kid are seeing just how stupid most who do it are.
It isn’t legal in British Columbia but the police turn a blind eye and I am hoping that with so much smoke around, it will actually be a turn off to most young people. I think a lot of the appeal to a certain group is that it was illegal but if it’s legal and they see the high percentage of deadbeats smoking, they will think twice…
Did they become deadbeats because they started smoking or were they simply deadbeats who took up smoking? 
Did they become deadbeats because they started smoking or were they simply deadbeats who took up smoking?
Funny you should ask.
Earlier this year there was a small parade in Vancouver down in the “progressive” area of town where I live. The area is ground zero for all the social justice warriors coming out to vent with their latest first world problem. I was standing on the side of the road while a number of people demanding the legalization of pot went by, the usual suspects.
One guy was standing nearby and engaged in a discussion with other parade watchers. He was trying to get people to use pot and was offering a free sample. He was explaining that he used to own a bar in London, England (I think his point was that he was in the “corporate world” at that point). He said he saw the light and started smoking dope and now doesn’t have a fraction of the stress that you get from working. It seemed he was just living off the system now, sticking it to the man I suppose.
At the same time as he was making his motivational speech, the other deadbeats sitting on the back of a truck would chant about how we weed is here to stay and we better get used to it, throwing profanity in while smoking their joints. They were quite the role models…
What percentage of people who smoke pot do you think “live in filth out the drainages because they can’t hold a job”? Things must be different where you live because I know plenty of people who smoke pot and yet still manage to have jobs and be productive members of society.
What percentage of people who smoke pot do you think “live in filth out the drainages because they can’t hold a job”? Things must be different where you live because I know plenty of people who smoke pot and yet still manage to have jobs and be productive members of society.
You really didn’t expect jw to have any other view on this matter, did you? Think the saying goes something like “the company you keep?” I don’t know anyone that fits his description, but I do know countless other crazy, deadbeat pot heads who by his standards are crushing life.
Obama was a weed smoker. That is all.
What percentage of people who smoke pot do you think “live in filth out the drainages because they can’t hold a job”? Things must be different where you live because I know plenty of people who smoke pot and yet still manage to have jobs and be productive members of society.
Almost ever high functioning person I know does not smoke weed at present and last time they did it was college and either never has tried it or has done it less than five times.
What percentage of people who smoke pot do you think “live in filth out the drainages because they can’t hold a job”? Things must be different where you live because I know plenty of people who smoke pot and yet still manage to have jobs and be productive members of society.
Almost ever high functioning person I know does not smoke weed at present and last time they did it was college and either never has tried it or has done it less than five times.
And this is supposed to indicate what? I know regular pot users across the full spectrum from burned-out losers to prominent local gov’t & business leaders, lawyers, professors, architects, and everything in between. Sure, it’s more common among musicians & other artists, but there’s no one type except in your head (and jwbeuk’s).
What percentage of people who smoke pot do you think “live in filth out the drainages because they can’t hold a job”? Things must be different where you live because I know plenty of people who smoke pot and yet still manage to have jobs and be productive members of society.
Almost ever high functioning person I know does not smoke weed at present and last time they did it was college and either never has tried it or has done it less than five times.
And this is supposed to indicate what? I know regular pot users across the full spectrum from burned-out losers to prominent local gov’t & business leaders, lawyers, professors, architects, and everything in between. Sure, it’s more common among musicians & other artists, but there’s no one type except in your head (and jwbeuk’s).
I didn’t say there was a type. I just said the people I know at the top of their professions aren’t regular and have never been regular users.
When would you want your kid to smart smoking pot daily?
Same reason for why I’ve never tried weed (dope, ganja, Maryjane, pot, skunk…you name it). Plus, I think the dope lifestyle is just dumb. Sorry.
It doesn’t have to be a “lifestyle” and you don’t have to smoke it. You can eat it. I haven’t had any weed in years but have only fond memories. But yeah, people shouldn’t blow smoke where other people can breathe it.
Smoking around others is simply rude, regardless of what is being smoked. It’s no different to me than parents changing their kids diapers out in public where everyone can’t help smelling their shit (like in an airport concourse waiting area, when they evidently couldn’t be bothered to pick up and go to the restroom where changing tables are provided and the smell of shit is expected).
But this anachronistic Reefer Madness stereotype is borderline comical… In several states now, you can go into a commercial dispensary and have the clerk help you pick out any number of products specifically tailored to various tastes and situations, much like you’d ask a sommelier to help you pick out the ideal wine for a particular meal or occasion… Whether to relieve pain, calm anxiety, get an extra lift while hiking or Mtn biking, zone into a household project, take the edge off visiting in-laws, or hold down the couch while watching cartoons ~ delivered via edibles, balms, tinctures, vaporizer cartridges, teas, etc. Believe it or not, some really smart botanists, chemists, and engineers have actually spent a lot of time working in the industry already. The dirty, smelly burnouts are only the more visible users because they’re sloppy and don’t care, just like the dirty smelly redneck non-users who are sloppy and don’t care about their outward appearance, either.
I have been to Colorado a few times over the last couple of years.
I didn’t notice any pot smoking at all.
(Not sure what that proves).
One of my neighbors, however, smokes pot. I smell it while I am on trainer.
I am uncertain whether I have the right to be annoyed or not.
Sure… I have to smell pot smoke.
But …would I even realize that is what I am smelling, if I were completely innocent?
What percentage of people who smoke pot do you think “live in filth out the drainages because they can’t hold a job”? Things must be different where you live because I know plenty of people who smoke pot and yet still manage to have jobs and be productive members of society.
Almost ever high functioning person I know does not smoke weed at present and last time they did it was college and either never has tried it or has done it less than five times.
And this is supposed to indicate what? I know regular pot users across the full spectrum from burned-out losers to prominent local gov’t & business leaders, lawyers, professors, architects, and everything in between. Sure, it’s more common among musicians & other artists, but there’s no one type except in your head (and jwbeuk’s).
I didn’t say there was a type. I just said the people I know at the top of their professions aren’t regular and have never been regular users.
When would you want your kid to smart smoking pot daily?
That only says anything about the people you know. They may also have other colleagues who do use it and you just don’t know. Hell, it’s even conceivable that some of them you know really do use it and just keep it under wraps because they don’t need the word getting out and/or they can tell you’re not cool w/ it. Or not, obviously I don’t know them. All i’m saying is it’s not this dichotomy between either Bill Gates or Jim from Taxi.
As for my kids, who says I want them to smoke it daily? I’d guess the older one has tried it already, and is smart/aware enough to figure out his limitations as far as using it too much and still getting more important shit done. I don’t get how this one intoxicant is somehow viewed so differently from more widely accepted intoxicants like alcohol ~ some folks don’t know when to quit and overdo it or choose poor times/places to partake, but millions of people every day can use/consume it responsibly and go about their other business with no ill effect. It depends on the individual user a lot more than his/her drug of choice.
I don’t know who’s slower on the uptake, tobacco smokers or dope smokers, but if this linked article is any indication there are some very, very STUPID tobacco smokers out there:
Hip health freaks think smoking is cool again.
“The act of smoking is like a meditation practice. You’re consciously breathing in and exhaling.â€
Who are these people? Well, here’s one: “Thirty-two-year-old Ashley Arenson (ed. see photo below), who splits her time between Bushwick and Berlin.â€
Here’s the photo, but let’s be honest: You can already accurately picture her in your mind, and I’m sure that what you’re seeing looks just like the photo anyway.
Hip health freaks think smoking is cool again | New York Post
Tell us about the Hendinberg again grandpa.
It sure was something. OH THE HUMANITY!!
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