Mr incredible mad

If I had to choose between a drink and a joint, it'd be the drink every time.

Weed's naaaaaaaasty.

You might think weed is nasty, But that is different than judging someone for smoking weed.

I don't have a problem if anyone thinks that or wants to smoke in private. But it shouldn't be allowed in public, at least no more than tobacco is.

Or drinking?

The difference between smoking and drinking is that drinking doesn't release noxious clouds of vapor into the air. You can, in principle, drink responsibly in the company of others without them ever smelling or otherwise imbibing the alcohol. Smoking though...smoking forces everyone to inhale secondhand fumes.

Now, if someone gets drunk then all bets are off. But the blame in that scenario falls upon the person, not the substance.

I suppose. I'm not somebody who considers it noxious vapor. I don't think I've ever even met anyone that doesn't like it.

Seriously? Wow. Wherever you live, remind me not to go there, haha. There is nothing worse than your outside air being ruined by secondhand smoke, doubly so for pot. It definitely gives me a migraine.

Heck, two years ago I was on a ski lift, enjoying a marvelous day, when the punks in front of me decided to enjoy a joint while headed up. By the end of the five-minute lift run I was about to puke.

Just think about others, people (not you specifically)...it's not hard...

That's fine. Personally, if I could snap my fingers and make it disappear off the face of the planet then I probably would. I can't though, and it's not really my call what someone does in their own home or vehicle. Stoke one up man. But I should be entitled to not breathe in something I don't want to breathe in when I'm in public, haha. It's not a huge ask.

😂

Snap your fingers and make it disappear? That's the worst thing I've ever heard on imgflip. Thats the quickest way to make billions of people unhappy. If you are upset about breathing something in it should be all of the toxic waste corporations put in the air, not something that is actually good for you and makes people happy!

Ha, if that's the worst thing you've seen here then you've not been around the block, my friend. We all have things in life we wish weren't around. Doesn't mean we can actually change it, I'm just telling you one of mine.

Dude I'm not happy when I have to breathe in smog while traveling through a big city, or when I can't even see the beautiful Montana sky for weeks on end because fires choke it with acrid smoke. If I could get rid of those I would too. But overall, U.S citizens enjoy some of the cleanest air on earth, and we're making good progress on the environmental front, so I think it's safe to focus my energy on something rapidly becoming a problem in my area.

I've never downvoted you before, but you give me no choice.

If you feel the need to downvote someone because they're expressing an opinion they accept can never be a reality, then have at it. Like I said, I delineate the world as I want it from the world as I can actually make it.

This story doesn't even make sense! It's physically impossible to become ill from smelling pot. It's a chemical reaction that causes people to get high, if you were gonna puke from breathing it in on a ski lift, dare I say your problem is more psychological. Comparing it to the proven dangers of second hand cigarette smoke is a false comparison, pot is actually good for you.You would take away something that brings people joy because you don't like the smell of it, and that leads me to believe you are not as moderate as you seem to be.

If you've never had a headache so bad that you don't want to vomit then count yourself lucky.

Oh cry me a river. If you can't handle someone not liking the smell of second hand smoke or week in public and deem them a radical because of it then the issue lies with you. I said I do NOT CARE if people want to do it in private. But if someone doesn't want to inhale tobacco or THC-ridden fumes then they are entitled to that much.

Mostly sounds reasonable. When you said snap your fingers and make it disappear it sent shudders down my spine.

Like I said, there are a lot of things I think the world would be better never having seen. But that's indulging in fantasy and not a policy suggestion.

Usually you explain things in a way that makes sense, or at least that I can sort of understand. Not this time.

Let's try again then:

1. I have opinions as to how I wish the world would be. I shared one of them with you.

2. I made a distinction between those fanciful wishes and policy for which I actually advocate because I'm not so naive that I think I can have everything I want while respecting the right of others to live how they wish.

3. Therefore, I limit my view on the use of chemicals/drugs to generally be one where it's OK to use them so long as they're not impinging on others. That means I am only concerned with it when users make it my problem.

4. Having established that, all I ask is that folks who want to use a substance only do so around others when they're sure everyone nearby is OK with it. Go to a marijuana den/club and party all night long. Go to a bar if you want to get drunk with friends. But don't make the family walking down the sidewalk or the poor guy behind you on the ski lift smell your noxious cloud of tobacco or pot smoke. It's insensitive at best and downright harmful if someone has sensitive lungs or something.

In short, be respectful of others when you're around them. That's my two cents.