• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    I remember the FUD that was spread when Colorado and Washington State legalized. None of it happened. A local TV News crew created an exercise where they would make different levels of cannabis user drive a course while traffic cops would evaluate their abilities to operate a motor vehicle.

    Every driver considered themselves to stoned to drive safely even though the cops said they didn’t drive like it. The Stoner girl said she was way to high to drive and wouldn’t even try in real life but she passed the tests.

    And the smell thing… Pioneer Square in Seattle has a smell to it, if it hasn’t rained in a while. Lots of pissing in the alley type behavior. I worked for a hospital that ran a clinic there. Usually the area stinks.

    A long comes accessable cannabis for all. IDK if you don’t like the smell of pot smoking.

    It’s by far better than the smell of piss.

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      5 months ago

      We also have a drinking culture where doing it alone at home is considered taboo. You’re supposed to go out to a bar and do it, and then get home somehow.

      Cannabis use doesn’t have that culture, not even in legalized states.

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        5 months ago

        Idk about that. There weren’t cannibas bars because cannibas wasn’t legal. But the idea of going over to a friend’s house or on a date where you both smoke weed together is hardly new.