• Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Just want to add that the biggest objection that I have heard from coworkers and friends about making recreational Marijuanna legal is the smell. Walk around a downtown in any state it is legal for recreation in and the smell is everywhere.

    Non-users don’t want to smell burning weed or tabacco as they go about their day.

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      4 days ago

      Yeah. I guess I don’t really gaf that my neighbor smokes weed however I do hate that as a person who doesn’t smoke weed I can’t go into my garage or anywhere in my back yard without feeling smelling hardcore weed smell and my garage just accumulates it.

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      4 days ago

      I live in a legal state. You get whiffs once in a while, which is more funny than it is annoying to me.

      There are times when the smell lingers, and that’s pretty gross.

      But other than that, it’s not as choking/poisonous as the cloud of cigarette and car fumes.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 days ago

        The car fumes are causing more cancer than the smoking. And is non majority directed at the user. We’ve known that for just as long as cigarettes being bad, yet people turned their head because they had good lobbying.

        Gas powered cars are worse than cigarettes. We could have switched to majority electric cars in the 70s, and all the gas stations would have just been electric chargers and the tech growth for batteries would have happened 50 years ago.

        Then again cars cause further damages to society than just fumes, but a lot of people don’t care about the layout of towns/cities and access and accept deaths from cars as par for the course.

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      4 days ago

      I live in a city where it’s not legal an it smells loud enough now. I do think it should be legal, but I don’t really care for the smell.

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      4 days ago

      I live in a state that legalized not too long ago, and I barely smell it. Almost never in public places. Sometimes, my older neighbor smokes in his garage but it’s not that strong. If it was, it still wouldn’t bother me.