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Legalizing marijuana was a mistake. It’s beginning to infringe on MY rights to NOT be exposed to it. The smell gives me an instant headache and makes me nauseous. It smells absolutely horrid and over the past 12 months or so it’s been getting more and more difficult to escape it.
My city has more pot shops than Dunkin’ Donuts at this point, with dispensaries literally right across the street from one another and more being built all the time.
Roughly 12 or so months ago I noticed that I was smelling the stuff more often, but it was always confined to certain places and easily escaped (for example, I would walk by a certain apartment each day and would be assaulted by a stench of pot from an open window, but it was isolated to that one section of sidewalk and I escaped it within five seconds.
Now it’s everywhere. Instead of smelling it just once a day outside that particular apartment, I’m now forced to walk down entire streets that reek of the stuff. Some people smoke so damn much that it permeates their clothes, and they don’t even need to be actively smoking for it to stink up the bus stop or the changing room at work.
I’m gonna go on a rant now but I really need to get this out. Today was the last straw. I was waiting to board a bus. It’s cold outside so I decided to wait inside the enclosed busway. It smelled like pot, but my bus was only a minute away, so I decided I may as well move outside. The smell was STRONGER outside, no matter which direction I walked along the platform. My bus came and I boarded, getting my favorite seat in the second to last row (I like being able to put my feet up on the wheel hub). Guess who decides to sit down right behind me? The motherfucker who I presume was responsible for stinking up the outside platform. He. Reeked (by the way, ever noticed how most potheads are men?) I already had a headache so I became instantly nauseous. I abandoned my plans for the day and got off at the first stop and walked home.
Just as I don’t consent to being exposed to secondhand cigarette smoke, I also don’t consent to being exposed to the foul-smelling smoke of a mood-altering drug. If people are so fucking desperate to be high all the fucking time, they can eat some fucking gummies.
Sorry for the rant but I almost blew my top today.