Smoking Around Kids

[Peter Parka]

The message that it's okay to break the law simply because you don't agree with it is the wrong message IMHO.

I guess this just where we differ then. If a law is stupid and makes no sense, I have no problem whatsoever with people breaking it.

 

[leo305]

lmfao!!!

 

[alibaba]

Once it was outside who cares, you were not blowing it in their faces, and personally i really hate when i go to someones house (usually a former smoker) and they kick you out the back with your cup of tea to have a smoke, I never threw anyone out of my house to smoke, even when I was pregnant and gave up I would never to that.

 

[leo305]

:yuk:yukyes i agree i hate it with a passion when people smoke around me it damages my lungs and it smells horrible btw i dont smoke andi never have and never will

ohhh you guys are talking about pot... ewww

 

[!]

I think it depends on a few things:

Ages of kids? How old were the kids

Proximity to kids? If it was outside and quite spacey I don't really see a problem, but I wouldn't do it in a closed up room or driving kids around in a car.

Pretty soon Obama is going to decriminalize it so there should be a problem

 

[Nasha]

I dont care if its tobacco or weed, outside im not too bothered, indoors i hate it.

 

[mrjoe815]

I don't agree with drug laws either, but I still think it sends the wrong message. You're essentially promoting anarchy.

If I wanted to go the route of fighting the power against unjust laws, then I would promote some civic responsibility. Contacting government officials regarding the law, starting or becoming involved in a grassroots movement or something.

The message that it's okay to break the law simply because you don't agree with it is the wrong message IMHO.

I agree. There are many laws that you may not agree with, but all laws are designed to bring order to society. Sending the message of "This law is stupid, I'm not going to abide it" is asking definitely the wrong message.

 

[Flute]

They are stuck in this mentality that we can fight a war on drugs. Gen. McCaffrey was on the news this morning. I he was a "Drug Czar". Of course he defended the status quo. He thinks kids would get it more easily at the 7/11. Sure.

Legalize it. Tax it and conrol distribution as we do alcohol. We do not have the resources to continue to fight this bogus war.

When prohibition was repealed, the criminal element was decimated. While people can grow pot on their own, it would never the less, kill the foreign pot market. Think of the stimulus to the economy as farms are converted and the associated industry emerges to process and manufacture joints.

I don't smoke it, it makes me ill. But I hate the fact we waste our resources trying to prevent something that is as well established as the pot market. Also foolishness of locking up people for possession.

Not just prevention, imagine the costs on imprisonment that can be saved if those charged with marijuana offenses were released. Probably do a lot to help with California's budget problems. -_-

 

[MoonOwl]

CNN.com has this poll up now:


Should marijuana be decriminalized?

Yes 65% 135424
No 18% 38208
Only for medical use 17% 34725
Total Votes: 208357

Once again, it will never happen as it makes sense. But they'll spend us into the poorhouse bailing out wall street...

 

[stilts]

Considering I was a victim of second hand smoke, I would have to say that smoking shouldn't happen around children.
1. Because they are kids, when they get older they will figure out if they like that later on they don't need someone in front of them influencing them to smoke.
2. So when they become older and if they do end up smoking at least they will have the courtesy of leaving the room before smoking, because they will have learned from their parents.

 

[Burntblood]

I'm usually not a violent person but when I see an adult smoking in a vehicle with a child I just want to yank 'em out and beat them to within an inch of their life.
I'm talking about the adult.

 

[dkwrtw]

pretty despicable to smoke around children imo.

 

[Meirionnydd]

CNN.com has this poll up now:


Should marijuana be decriminalized?

Yes 65% 135424
No 18% 38208
Only for medical use 17% 34725
Total Votes: 208357

Once again, it will never happen as it makes sense. But they'll spend us into the poorhouse bailing out wall street...

Yes, our drug policy should be based solely on the results of this online CNN poll.

 

[Burntblood]

I just wish our drug policy was based on common sense and sound scientific fact.