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Originally Posted by yuriandrade
There's nothing wrong with this concept. However, we shouldn't make other people smell your smoke. It took decades to make tobacco smoker to realize that, and I hope it won't take that long with marijuana.
Now, it's a more subjective taken, I really find that US/Canada fascination childish. It's only a drug and it's not like people in the US won't take tons of other drugs anyway. And it's not only me. Netherlands started restricting marijuana in part due annoying and noisy American youngsters disturbing their streets.
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Do you think people are just lighting up blunts in restaurants now that bud is legal here? Lol. Just like it would be uncouth (not to mention illegal, but that doesn't stop some people of course) to crack a beer on the sidewalk, the same has been true for smoking, in my experience so far. The occasional smell of smoke wafting from an apartment or a car existed before prohibition ending.
It's folded pretty seamlessly into the landscape here, in Chicago at least. There was understandably some initial novelty for a couple of months because ending prohibition is a pretty big deal, but all the weed talk quickly faded into the background. Whatever image in your head of zombified potheads filling the public space with smoke and Dorito crumbs, just know that's not what's actually happened here.
Also this should all be framed by the fact that the smell of marijuana is incredibly inoffensive, ESPECIALLY in comparison to all the other smells that can assault you on an average day in a major city.