[kingu]

I was debating getting a bus load of fellow smokers and going for a jaunt through Calabasas, puffing away, and seeing just how many folks their police department was willing to process, and then stopped.

Couching the law in puffy health language doesn't much change the fact that it is really a moral choice on the part of the city. They don't want people to smoke in public, and I think that such a choice should be within their power.

After all, if I want to go chug a six pack while walking down the street (of course, in a less than straight line as I exceed my personal tolerance for alcohol), I'd be arrested. It is, in most places, illegal to drink in public. Why shouldn't it be possible to make smoking illegal in public?

So instead, I've decided to not go to Calabasas anymore. Sure, it's easier for me now, since my grandparents have passed away, to make such a decision. And much easier to decide to shop in neighboring cities who will no doubt enjoy the additional sales tax revenue.

[QueenBee3]

I am from Calabasas and EVERYONE is PISSED off about it. OUr goofy mayor Barry Groveman is out of control and trying to make a run for state assembly by attatching his name to something big. But everyone is upset.

Please come here and smoke. My wildly liberal friend and I finally agree on something, so we started a blog and we're trying to start a grass roots campaign to stop this insanity. thanks check it out!

Calabasas Chronicle

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