Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Snarf Zagyg]

I treat it the same as cigaret smoke. If people are showing consideration it's fair, if people don't care how many old people, children, or others in general are when they are blowing smoke, I think that is a bit rude. Also people smoking on the road in their car, the issue there for me isn't the smoke, it is that they are getting high behind the wheel

 

[Ryujin]

This happens to me as well. I am guessing this is usually the car ahead of me, but I suppose it could be in the air outside. It is funny because I was just getting to college in the 90s, when we were all smoking pot. But the vibe of it is totally different now that it is legal (I don't personally mind if people want to smoke, but I wish they were a little more considerate about other people when they do so----it isn't a smell everyone wants to be breathing in all the time----especially as you get older and have more lung issues)

I used to smell pot, on my commutes into downtown Toronto, maybe once or twice a week. Once recreational use became legal I started smelling it literally every day both on my trip in, and later on my way home. ANY use of pot while driving is illegal, just as having an open container of alcohol in your vehicle is illegal. Funny thing is just how many times I smell it coming from vehicles obviously owned by construction workers. Then again I start at the same time they generally do (Oh-Dark-O-Clock), so maybe not that odd?

 

[Bedrockgames]

ANY use of pot while driving is illegal, just as having an open container of alcohol in your vehicle is illegal. Funny thing is just how many times I smell it coming from vehicles obviously owned by construction workers. Then again I start at the same time they generally do (Oh-Dark-O-Clock), so maybe not that odd?

This is the part that bothers me more than the smell. If you want to smoke, by all means do so, especially in the privacy of your own home, but driving while high, is still driving under the influence (and I don't think people really understand how it impacts their performance and their ability to drive safely behind the wheel)

 

[Ryujin]

This is the part that bothers me more than the smell. If you want to smoke, by all means do so, especially in the privacy of your own home, but driving while high, is still driving under the influence (and I don't think people really understand how it impacts their performance and their ability to drive safely behind the wheel)

It's just like it was with alcohol, back in the '70s. 'The other guy is a problem, but I can handle my liquor.'

 

[payn]

It's just like it was with alcohol, back in the '70s. 'The other guy is a problem, but I can handle my liquor.'

Not that it is a competition, but alcohol is much worse.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Not that it is a competition, but alcohol is much worse.

It is far worse, but it is also something everyone gets, that drinking and driving is dangerous. People still do it. Unfortunately. But I don't think there is the same level of understanding. I see folks casually smoking weed while driving all the time and no one really bats an eye. It still impacts your performance enough that you are greatly increasing your own risk and the risk of others on the road

 

[Ryujin]

Not that it is a competition, but alcohol is much worse.

I would say that, as with everything, it depends upon use and the individual. Cell phones are probably worse than weed, but both reduce reaction times significantly.

 

[Parmandur]

I have never had a sense of smell, which helped in Berkeley.

 

[Ryujin]

It is far worse, but it is also something everyone gets, that drinking and driving is dangerous. People still do it. Unfortunately. But I don't think there is the same level of understanding. I see folks casually smoking weed while driving all the time and no one really bats an eye. It still impacts your performance enough that you are greatly increasing your own risk and the risk of others on the road

That's why I mentioned the '70s. Back then no one really thought that it was a bad thing to have a couple of drinks, at a party, then drive home. Hell, my father put away enough beer on the weekly to almost literally keep a small micro brew in business, and it didn't ever really catch up to him. Well, at least not until maybe 10 years ago. I haven't seen him in about 40 years but I just randomly decided to to a Google search on his name, a few years back, and found that he had finally been arrested for DUI. His tolerance to alcohol was massive and he was a functioning alcoholic.

 

[Thomas Shey]

This happens to me as well. I am guessing this is usually the car ahead of me, but I suppose it could be in the air outside. It is funny because I was just getting to college in the 90s, when we were all smoking pot. But the vibe of it is totally different now that it is legal (I don't personally mind if people want to smoke, but I wish they were a little more considerate about other people when they do so----it isn't a smell everyone wants to be breathing in all the time----especially as you get older and have more lung issues)

Same here. On the whole, I think if you're going to do a recreational drug its probably a better choice than alcohol, both for you and others, but you have to be pretty close to be dealing with the olfactory side effects of liquor which isn't true with MJ. Now its become like being near a chronic cigar smoker.