I take your agressive tone and response as vindication that some people need to take a chill pill.
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Canada: marijuana to be legal by July 1, 2018
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I take your agressive tone and response as vindication that some people need to take a chill pill.
Sniffynose
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I take your agressive tone and response as vindication that some people need to take a chill pill.
Yeah it sucks when people are right eh, just curious you know if in real life you'd like what? Bring a gif up on your phone and wave it around the street to prove a point?
Grow up.
Not to mention taking this so far OT it isn't even funny.
Go back and read my replies, and then let them sink in for a bit.
To the rest of you, enjoy yourselves just please be responsible and courteous with it. Cheers!
Opinions, how do they work?
Ken Adams
Member
I know right, plz dont stop sniffy i know there more stuff bothering u. Let it out my friend lol
Sniffynose
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Are you honestly that dense? Smoke inhalation NO MATTER the source hurts lung tissue... just because weed becomes legal doesn't make the entire fight against smoking suddenly disappear. Do you think somehow marijuana's smoke is magic and when burned contains no carcinogenic material or other chemical byproducts?!
Edibles and vape are are safer for everyone..
You guys want to be taken seriously then stop pushing bullshit.
Quote where I said anything about there being no damage. Go on. I'll wait. Otherwise, simmer the fuck down and form a coherant arguement.
You coming in here screaming cancer shows who the dense one is. Eating cheeseburgers causes your body damage, breathing polluted air (so all air) damages your body but I don't see you up in arms about those.
Simon Belmont
Banned
If you want to be taken seriously stop throwing a hissy fit over what legal activities people may be doing in their backyards.
Sniffynose
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Whatever you guys just keep deflecting everything so enjoy your fucking echo chamber like always, since Neogaf is the home of echos.
PS: I don't bother you whatsoever by eating a cheeseburger, however you smoking a blunt next to me puts me into a fucking asthma attack, but you know keep pandering to your own cause.
Fucking idiots, you have someone ok with legalization and like usual because they aren't 100% buying your snake oil concepts you have to cause a shitstorm.
We aren't talking about other things, this is a marijuana thread, second hand smoke kills period. Enjoy being the new generation of idiots hooked on the equivalent of cigarettes because you can't see past your own egos.
You want safe weed, you eat it or vape I and you do so responsibly and with respect to people around you.
If you can't handle that, you aren't mature enough to use any non-presctiption drugs.
When your backyard activities affect my families quality of life, that's when you are taking things too far. Again the respect factor. I can tell people are going to be pissed off when this finally passes thanks to a select few morons that think it's their right to blow smoke in everyone's faces...
Simon Belmont
Banned
Are you high? That's not a post script, that's the majority of your comment.
Biff
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How old are you? Do you own property?
When you invest your life savings and a significant portion of your future life earnings into your family's dwelling, you have every right to be upset when someone's activities, legal or illegal, impact your enjoyment of your property.
You ever open your windows during the summertime? What if your neighbour decides to move their composting unit on their side of the fence but underneath your window?
"Oh boy, guess I can't open my windows anymore! Good thing the summers don't get too hot lol"
Or, would you, like an adult, ask your neighbour to move their compost unit?
This is the exact same situation as if your neighbour was smoking weed under your window. What if it wasn't your window, but your child's window? Does that change anything?
That is the point Sniffy is making. If you are an adult, you clearly understand his point. If you are an angsty 20-something, then I can see how it's difficult to understand what he is saying.
Simon Belmont
Banned
I'm 33 and I own a piece of property big enough that I don't need to worry about what my neighbors are doing. If your neighbors compost is by your fence and it's causing you distress you can talk to them about it. If they don't move it and it's in compliance with the city bylaws then there's nothing you can really do about it.
I'm enough of an adult to realize that I don't get to control what people do in their own houses.
Gonna need those stats on second hand weed smoke being a killer. Again, I'll wait. Lest you look like a massive, incoherent tit and all.
Hilarious how you think you have the right to tell people how to ingest it. I'd take the time to explain the different effects of eating, smoking and vaping but it'd be like explaining that to a cactus.
Sniffynose
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Thank you for this, I'm just so frustrated with people that can't understand simple concepts, I end up fighting back and forth because they can't be bothered to just read past points.
I am a Dad, I grew up, I have kids, I have asshole neighbours, I own my house. I am OK with legalization, but I want people to keep this to themselves, I don't want to be stuck inside, or have to keep my windows closed.
I've been there, I was a young person, I did shit, I was all like lol stupid adults, but I moved past that, things change. You understand actions have consequences.
I don't even want to say anymore because it always just flies back and forth on this stupid forum.
Thank you for actually getting it, and I know there's others here too that get it, both users and not.
@Calderc use google you seem like you understand the Internet, the American lung association makes it pretty damn clear, but it's like speaking to a wall of concrete to most of you deniers I swear.
CitizenVectron
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Wait so edibles are still going to be illegal? That's dumb.
Lol people using this classic excuse
You'd think you'd learn by now that it doesn't work. You deal with second hand smoke every day whether you realize it or not even when people follow the restriction rules. Similarly you're so adamant that others doing something is going to affect you, why aren't you fighting to ban all alcohol and cars, cause there even a slight chance you can get hit by a drunk driver? Oh and just cars in general. You walk by one or one drives in front of you and suddenly you just took in exhaust. Oh no, the terror.
You'd think you'd learn by now that it doesn't work. You deal with second hand smoke every day whether you realize it or not even when people follow the restriction rules. Similarly you're so adamant that others doing something is going to affect you, why aren't you fighting to ban all alcohol and cars, cause there even a slight chance you can get hit by a drunk driver? Oh and just cars in general. You walk by one or one drives in front of you and suddenly you just took in exhaust. Oh no, the terror.
I mean, all you do is escalate and change the goalposts (going from cancer to harming lungs), if anything rants like yours is a bigger detriment to this forum than actual discussion based on back and forths.
You make the claim, you supply the evidence. I do know the internet, and that's how things work 'round these parts.
Simon Belmont
Banned
What you need to do is sue the sun. It hits you with so much cancer!
Sniffynose
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Anyways I can see it's turned into the typical circus of stupidity here so enjoy your victory guys. You warded off yet another "concern troll".
Go smoke one in honour of my defeat you earned it.
Go smoke one in honour of my defeat you earned it.
Stupidity is making claims you can't back up.
Stupidity is not being able to stay on one arguement so you shift to another to save face.
Stupidity is thinking you have the right to tell other people what to do.
Stupidity is thinking people are outside your window blowing smoke through every crevice turning your sweet baby boy into a crackhead.
Seems like you're pretty well accustomed to stupidity dude.
I believe you've hit upon the likely truth of the matter here.
I don't know anyone laying solo simple possession charges for marijuana anymore. THe prevalent attitude that I perceive is officers just don't consider it to be worth the time and effort.
To me, the vast majority of those charges have got to be charges added on as a "gimme" stemming from an unrelated arrest, or as a means of showing someone breaching the conditions of their bail, etc.
Sniffynose
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You know what fuck you, if you actually read my posts you'd have gotten a nice link showing that weed smoke is essentially identical to tobacco smoke. But instead it's easier to drive by shitpost and then expect people to constantly type out answers for your ignorant ass.
If I get banned over this fine but seriously go to hell! The world doesn't need people like you.
My family has dealt with cancer and deaths from first and second hand smoking, so fuck you if you think suddenly weed is immune to this.
Go stick your privilege up your ass.
Simon Belmont
Banned
To be fair, it's not easy living in the smoking section of a Denny's.
ugaboga232
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http://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/news/20060523/pot-smoking-not-linked-to-lung-cancer#1
Not all smoke is equal. Not saying anyone should ever really be smoking anything, but that doesn't mean I will lie about it.
Sniffynose
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Sorry but ya.. I don't have patience anymore for some people.
Privilege? What the actual fuck are you talking about?
And weed smoke being 'essentially identical' to be tobacco smoke is hysterical. 'Essentially identical' except for the completely different chemical composition. Which is, y'know, everything.
I have also had deaths in my family due to cancer caused by smoking. And guess what, it wasn't weed smoke. Take a look in the mirror, realise you don't have a fucking clue what you're talking about (with regards to both weed and your understanding of my family history) and either educate yourself or remove yourself from any discussion which requires thought or understanding.
Damn this got hostile.
Sniffy, I live in Colorado. MJ has been legal here for over a year now. I haven't yet had to close my window because someone smoking near by. I don't even smell it on the roads. Apparently there are a couple parks where homeless people smoke, but for the most part MJ is not all over the place. The only time you smell MJ is when you drive by the part of town where it's being grown, which are industrial areas where if it didn't smell like MJ it would smell like dog food and pollution.
Sniffy, I live in Colorado. MJ has been legal here for over a year now. I haven't yet had to close my window because someone smoking near by. I don't even smell it on the roads. Apparently there are a couple parks where homeless people smoke, but for the most part MJ is not all over the place. The only time you smell MJ is when you drive by the part of town where it's being grown, which are industrial areas where if it didn't smell like MJ it would smell like dog food and pollution.
SCROG it - you can pull a pound from a plant under 3 feet tall - just grow it 6 feet wide
The 'illegal seeds' bit is dumb. Maybe buy some 'legal' seeds to have on had for legal purposes, but I'd grow whatever. I'm not buying into patented/GMO cultivars. I'm breeding and buying stock now before they get too far with that shit.
More people will be happy that horseshit laws are being stricken down because they are unpopular and unnecessary.
The worst thing you can do with cannabis is get arrested with it.
Simon Belmont
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I honestly don't know what he thinks is going to change. Anybody who is even slightly interested in smoking it is able to get it without much hassle (sorry Boogie).
Sniffynose
Member
That's good, and I hope to frig I don't smell it near my windows or yard either.
Sorry for being so confrontational, it's a tricky topic since it's very personal and also has wildly differing "medical studies" but I mean case and point, safe or not, nobody has the right to subject me to it.
Hopefully the thread can go back to normal, I'll piss off and stop my end of the protest.
Saves money on enforcement
Increases revenue through taxes
Lets millions of people stop feeling like criminals
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I would never have imagined so much hostility in a thread about legalizing weed in Canada.
To start off with.
Haha, no skin off my back.
I am treating this entire exercise with a massive shrug of indifference.
I could barely give a crap about marijuana enforcement before, I'm certainly not about to be going around with a metre stick measuring the height of plants afterwards.
Except when you bust them for something else.Haha, no skin off my back.
I am treating this entire exercise with a massive shrug of indifference.
I could barely give a crap about marijuana enforcement before, I'm certainly not about to be going around with a metre stick measuring the height of plants afterwards.
Ironically, I could see the reverse happening.
We barely spend resources on it now, but with a legal regime, the government may encourage efforts being made to stamp out "contraband" marijuana sales, similar to current enforcement against contraband tobacco.
Except when you bust them for something else.
Lord help me if my career ever hits the point where I find myself typing up a "cannabis plant was 137cm tall" charge... haha
IISANDERII
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Marijuana isn't chemically addictive like cigarettes are. And can you provide a good link that shows marijuana smoking can cause cancer?
How do you regulate it..I think that's what the government isn't sure of. They'll figure it out or it'll be mass produced - not made by a bunch of stoners in their basement suite kitchen.
He'll just say fuck you and tell you haven't had any cancer-related deaths in your family. I wouldn't engage.
The QoL thing is stupid, it's the same argument which applies to anything that slightly inconveniences someone.
Busy/noisy roads, music too loud, barbecues, cars ideling in driveways, neighbours screaming over a hockey goal, loitering teenagers, unsightly curtains, not mowing their lawn/shovelling snow from their share of the driveway etc etc etc... You generally have to put up with other human's shit when you live in the suburbs.
My neighbour 2 doors down smokes a lot of medical marijuna in his backyard for pain management. Probably about 3-5 grams a day. My neighbours mounted a complaint to the city about it and they came and installed some sort of sensor device near their fence, which was needed to enforce the QoL bylaw. The city said a few weeks later that they can't do anything because the readings picked up by this device wasn't good enough to affect QoL. My neighbours were pissed and we're acting like the mere occasional smell of marijuana would give them cancer.
If you're sitting in an unventilated room with someone smoking a joint then their may be some negative impacts. If someone is smoking a joint in their back yard and the smell drifts through an open window then then I doubt there is anything notably damaging to health.
Busy/noisy roads, music too loud, barbecues, cars ideling in driveways, neighbours screaming over a hockey goal, loitering teenagers, unsightly curtains, not mowing their lawn/shovelling snow from their share of the driveway etc etc etc... You generally have to put up with other human's shit when you live in the suburbs.
My neighbour 2 doors down smokes a lot of medical marijuna in his backyard for pain management. Probably about 3-5 grams a day. My neighbours mounted a complaint to the city about it and they came and installed some sort of sensor device near their fence, which was needed to enforce the QoL bylaw. The city said a few weeks later that they can't do anything because the readings picked up by this device wasn't good enough to affect QoL. My neighbours were pissed and we're acting like the mere occasional smell of marijuana would give them cancer.
If you're sitting in an unventilated room with someone smoking a joint then their may be some negative impacts. If someone is smoking a joint in their back yard and the smell drifts through an open window then then I doubt there is anything notably damaging to health.
Simon Belmont
Banned
Loooooooool.
I can see what you mean about enforcement costs probably going up - new equipment for roadside checks and even just the time spent drawing up new enforcement policies is going to cost. And like you said, single possession charges aren't really taking up a lot of jail space (for adults anyways)
Hopefully they look at Colorado. It's regulated pretty well here, there are all kinds of packaging and serving size regulations.
Summer Haze
Banned
Whenever I smoke joints/pipe I do it in my shed, with the door closed.
You're welcome, neighbors.
You're welcome, neighbors.
We make our own edibles and tinctures (its dirt cheap)
There's no law about having them too strong here, just selling them too strong. The limit in stores is crazy low, like 10mg per serving. The ones my wife used to get at the med shops could be up to 250-500mg per serving. She'd have to eat like 50 cookies from the store to get the same effects.
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