Posted on 04/16/2023 12:34:37 PM PDT by fwdude
The Big Apple is now the Big Blunt.
Not just because decriminalized marijuana led to proliferating mayhem in the five boroughs.
Not just because stinky smoke hangs everywhere, seeping into subway cars and even Broadway theaters — the acrid odor I detected in the crowded men’s room of the Majestic Theatre a few weeks ago was not from “The Phantom of the Opera” smoke machine.
It’s also because of a forbidden-to-utter truth, in an age where raising the minimum wage ever higher has become mantra — namely, a license to get high has turned service employees into zombies.
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I sure don't, I'm glad I don't have to deal with that anymore.
But when I used to ride DART into work, the trains would always smell of "skunk", long after the users got off the train.
I remember the '50's and would go back there in a heartbeat.
And, FYI (not that you deserve it), a glass of white wine is fine for me, thank you...
This sounded pretty negative to me.
To: ansel12
I see, with alcohol you take over the world, force your civilization on others with wars and then degrade into infighting over transgenders, and with pot you don’t give a hoot.
50 posted on 4/16/2023, 2:23:12 PM by jeffc
It’s a rare night I get 5 hours of sleep.
Would you recommend any particular brand of these gummies?
In too many lib cities, tho, the police are handcuffed by the same hierarchy for liberal policies.
Magnisium glyconate
or
Magnisium theronate
I take 500 calcium with them
Try them Best nights sleep ever.
The “you” did not refer to you, but those who think alcohol is fine but pot is not. I think each to his own as long as you do not infringe on my rights.
That the “you” was directed at me? That never occurred to me at all.
This exchange with you has gotten truly strange because of your lack of comprehension, or the deliberate avoidance of explaining your post about 1950s America.
You seem to think 1950s America was evil.
Your lack of comprehension of things outside of your comport zone is appalling. I will no longer converse with you.
So all these posts you made and you completely avoided explaining that anti-American post that I asked about.
As it HAS ALREADY in any jurisdiction where it has been legalized for any reason.
In our small mostly rural county we have had our first:
Smash and grab thefts
Parking lot robberies at waddle mart
Homeless camp on the library lawn
Park defecation
Home invasion theft and assault
and our first frequent indecent exposure swarm
All since and because we now have legal medical pot.
50 years ago in college you could spot them all the way across the quad when they came out. Stoners. Wasted lives of useless people.
Especially younger people.
Were you stoned when you wrote that?
Having not been to frisco in the flower child days Amsterdam was my first exposure to the smell of pot in the streets. There there were the drugged up hookers that the authorities tired to keep away from the tourists but didn’t. Big disappointment. It all made for a very decadant and smarmy impression. Went once and never going back.
I would suggest that drugs themselves aren’t the problem here. The REAL problem is that this rampant abuse of narcotics takes place in a society where the personal consequences of bad decisions have been stripped away. That is a recipe for disaster.
Many of the problems associated with drug abuse would disappear if drugs were legalized, taxpayer-funded health care ceased to exist, and all crimes that are commonly associated with drug addicts were prosecuted harshly — or met with lethal resistance by the targeted victims.
Never had a three martini or any other such drink at lunch. Not in 40 years. We also didn’t have people who had that habit continue working for very long. By the early 80s the ashtrays were all gone.
I never saw anyone stoned from smoking a cigarette either.
We went through a time when we didn’t see that many people coughing up parts of their lungs either. We will be back to that from pot smoke too though.
Pot = SOMA. Opiate of the masses
Pot = SOMA. Opiate of the masses
And some neighborhoods where street level retail space for ordinary small retailers is in incresing competition from legal and illegal “smoke” shops, which from my observation in one Manhattamn area includes more “illegal” on-the-street sales as well. Smoke shops may become part of a new “gentrification” cycle in some neighborhoods with zero neighborhood benefit except to the building owners with street level retail space rented to the smoke shops.
Not long ago I walked, very late at night, the area in lower Manhattan from 1st Ave east to the River, from 14th street south to Houston. Smoke shops there are so ubiquitous it was like nearly one (and sometimes more) in every block. You could get a “contact high” just walking around there at that hour.
The “social” answer may be in licensing measures as severe and enforced as liquor licenses are, which may drastically reduce the nimber of legal shops, increase the retail price, and lower the amount of drug being sold.
Politicians will balk, because it will (1) also reduce sales taxes collected on the pot and (2) gets back to possible rise in illegal pot and the whole law enforcement, crime, jail and all the rest of the negatives, as before.
The “third” way is all sorts of indpenedent privately sponsored public campaigns againt pot use, trying to reduce pot use in spite of it being legal.
The 4th way is evangelism, converting more folks to true Christianity.
Some combination of the latter two may be our best solution.
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