The tyranny of the masses is still a tyranny. I'd personally like to move to a state where all smoking, but at least weed smoking, is illegal. I really don't like second hand smoke, especially when it smells and hangs as much as weed smoke does.
In all seriousness, Utah sounds like your ideal so long as you stay outside of Salt Lake City. I'm glad to no longer be a resident
Not enough trees. Nor enough employment in my non-remoteable field.
Public smoking is a concern, but the smoke will leak even if smoked inside of a home. With edibles and inhalers I don't understand why people thought it was a good idea to legalize marijuana smoking.
> Nor do I see how having bodily autonomy is necessarily a tyranny of the masses.
Generalizing the principle of the swinging your fists near someone else's nose saying.
You do know that, right? I'm not detecting any humour markers...
You do understand that many tort suits, and outright laws, are over subjective harms, right? (trash in neighbors yards, loud sounds late at night, smells from chemical industries, etcetera) That laws such as disability protection laws exist?
Lots of people love the smell of cannabis. No one loves "trash in neighbors yards, loud sounds late at night, smells from chemical industries".
Arguing in bad faith is lame dude.
There are entire messy neighborhoods.
> loud sounds late at night
People sleep at different times of the day.
> smells from chemical industries
People who lack a sense of smell don't care.
Special pleading for marijuana smoking is also lame.
Second hand weed is harmful. https://www.uclahealth.org/news/secondhand-marijuana-smoke-w...
OP is complaining that he might get a whiff coming from his neighbors house.
> In a few states, however, public consumption is completely tolerated or allowed in licensed lounges and designated areas.
And the laws as is make it easy for people to lie to the police about exactly where they were when they were smoking the weed.
If you take one of the world's most popular pastimes that personally, and want it legislated against on that basis, I have no time for your arguments.
Like - Manhattan. Yeah, you're gonna smell cannabis in Manhattan. It doesn't matter the tiniest bit what the laws are; you're gonna smell it. It's not something to take as a personal insult, and it's wild you insist that it is.
Anyway, weren't we talking about a serious issue? Like, is this why Americans are ok with all the domestic spying - they're too worried about sniffing a reefer on the wind? Ugh.
Many popular activities are expected to be done where they do not impact others. In my local park, a man was arrested for masturbating in public, certainly a popular activity.
> It doesn't matter the tiniest bit what the laws are; you're gonna smell it.
Over the course of the last few decades, I smell it more in Manhattan and in many other places where it has been legalized. Apparently laws do matter. Not that I want any laws against it. I would just prefer that people not be assholes about it.
I did not interpret such sociopathic behavior as a "personal insult".
As for the more serious issue, I did not take the thread here. I replied to your comment, "OP is complaining that he might get a whiff coming from his neighbors house." I pointed out that one does not need to enter someone's house in order to be forced to inhale their smoke.
Wish it stopped at just the smell.
Second hand weed is harmful.
https://www.uclahealth.org/news/secondhand-marijuana-smoke-w...
https://www.lung.org/policy-advocacy/tobacco/smokefree-envir...
https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/what-can-i-do-abo...
https://no-smoke.org/secondhand-marijuana-smoke-fact-sheet/
Second hand
Cool do you have better studies? If so, please share!
I await with bated breath (due to the nasty smoke both physically and here on HN).
Whatever happened to "Trust the Science^TM" with marijuana?
When it intrudes upon the bodily autonomy of others (e.g. second hand smoke, which I am constantly facing and suffering from in the Bay Area).
You want to live in a state where all smoking is illegal?
Because you don’t like the smell of weed smoke?
How interesting.
No, not because I "don't like" it, but because the smell of weed smoke causes quality of life and health issues.