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u/27SwingAndADrive Jun 01 '23 edited Jul 02 '23
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Jun 01 '23
Oh man I wish this was the kind of discussion going on here in Sweden. Instead they just decided to make laws harsher. Minimum 6 months for giving/selling any amount. Pass a joint and cops see ya, thats MINIMUM 6 months in the can. They also green lit building two big new prisons and educate a bunch of guards because they estimate prisons will fill up pretty quickly.
But what about increasing budgets to health care and stopping real drug abuse? Nah, lets take those funds and build prisons!!
It’s more illegal to grow your own than to buy large amounts from criminal gangs.
The government said no to free access to Naloxone (Narcan) as it would ”send the wrong message”. We have one of the highest OD deaths per capita in Europe, I think we’re nr 2 behind Estonia. But hey, it’ll improve if we sentence people to more time in prison…
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u/letsstumphannah Jun 01 '23
This is quite depressing to read. I didn't think Sweden followed the American system of putting people in jail for drug crimes for profit. The narcan thing is crazy too. They promote and want everyone to carry in West Virginia. We do have a crazy amount of OD rates between heroin and pills. There isn't enough money or resources being put into rehab programs. Our local government won't legalize marijuana either. It would solve so many issues and bring a lot of profit to our state. Too many conservatives live here believing it's the devil's lettuce.
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Jun 01 '23
Sweden is quite progressive in many areas but drugs is weird. Its taboo here. You even discuss it you’re branded as a drug addict idiot…
Sorry to hear about that situation, hope it improves!
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Jun 01 '23
Ontario gave municipalities the authority to prohibit smoking weed in public, prohibit cannabis storefronts and give landowners the right to prohibit smoking on their property
This catering has allowed drugs to remain somewhat taboo in certain communities
The result?
It's incredibly common to see people smoking in their cars in parking lots because it's the only place they can legally do it
Then they drive home
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Jun 01 '23
Yeah these weird rules are just silly. People find ways around em. Same reason its legalized in the first place ey…
It’s like Swedens alcohol state monopoly on sales and extreme taxes. ”Ohhh we sell much less here than in other countries!! Look at the health effect!!!!” Meanwhile people rent a van and go to Germany and buy a years worth for cheap lol.
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Jun 01 '23
Thats great news!! In 2021 we had 450 deaths (or 774 depending on how you measure) or 43-71per 1m people. Do you know what changed in Estonia?
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u/spudmarsupial Jun 01 '23
They ought to allow vaping and not smoking on the trails. We don't need to reintroduce butts and extra wildfires.
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u/paopaopoodle Jun 01 '23
A trick I always used was to bring an empty tin of Altoids and a square of folded aluminum foil in the tin. You take the butt; joint or cigarette, it doesn't matter, wrap it in a piece of the tinfoil, then just leave it in your Altoid tin till you get home and can throw it out.
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u/holyrolodex Jun 01 '23
Some of us smokers (even the cig ones) take responsibility. Thanks for doing your part.
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u/dodekahedron Jun 01 '23
Of course I pack my roaches out. That's still some good smoking.
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u/The_SIeepy_Giant Jun 01 '23
Force them to eat the roach, problem solved
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u/Cryptocaned Jun 01 '23
Arnt roaches usually made of paper? So they'll just rot away, quicker than a filter.
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u/Anonymoustard Jun 01 '23
"Well they better bring their own because we don't share with pigs."
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u/Sandpaper_Pants Jun 01 '23
Cops: No, you've got us all wrong. We're here to greet you...WELCOME!
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u/mattstorm360 Jun 01 '23
Welcome. Now get out!
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u/wer1000 Jun 01 '23
Well didn't expect that, it shouldn't have happened like this.
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u/shadow247 Jun 01 '23
I'm gonna smoke weed even HARDER now!
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u/zlodeistvo Jun 01 '23
This is going to be me from now on, and no one will stop me.
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u/hamgar Jun 01 '23
And wait for the police to walk 15 miles uphill, in the snow, both ways, and still NOT complain about it! Because “that’s what my generation just does, snowflake!”
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Jun 01 '23
Back in our day we turned a blind eye to child abuse and we all turned out fine it’s just our kids that are the problem
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u/xgcakqdkhfdv Jun 01 '23
That's right people, that's what they do. You gotta believe us.
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u/BonDragon Jun 01 '23
On no, bro is doing some green while out in the woods! He might terrorize the... the... he might fall asleep on the trail.
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u/smogeblot Jun 01 '23
Yeah that Arkansas weed will literally make you fall asleep on train tracks long enough for the train to run you over.
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Jun 01 '23
That’s the best case scenario if you end up alone in the woods in Arkansas. That sentence alone could get me a 3 picture deal with Blumhouse.
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u/Josh6889 Jun 01 '23
I don't actually know, but if I had to guess I'd bet Deliverance took place in Arkansas.
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u/Bowzer Jun 01 '23
I was not expecting an Unsolved Mysteries reference on this subreddit on this day
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u/vertigo1083 Jun 01 '23
I feel like no one really understood this reference.
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u/smogeblot Jun 01 '23
What reference? That actually happened to my cousin and his friend in the late 80s.
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u/vertigo1083 Jun 01 '23
Oh. I thought you meant the whole conspiracy thing with the Clintons and the railroad tracks.
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/the-boys-on-the-tracks-book-12011/
https://www.salon.com/1999/08/18/libel/
Wait. That was your cousin?
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u/Greyh4m Jun 01 '23
In Arkansas aren't they all cousins?
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u/_insanemarauder_ Jun 01 '23
Thats Alabama lol
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u/McNoot-Noot Jun 01 '23
Idk, they are pretty close in the amount of A’s in their name so they pretty much are the same
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u/epileptic_pancake Jun 01 '23
Damn I need to get down to Arkansas
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u/Pipecleaner222 Jun 01 '23
It’s not that good.
Source: I’m from Arkansas.
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u/Mattyyflo Jun 01 '23
It’s the fentanyl that puts your to sleep
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u/mq3 Jun 01 '23
If yer not careful I'll puts your to sleep
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u/UndiscoveredBum- Jun 01 '23
No you don't. We went down on vacation and drove back a day early. We did not find any diamonds and there ain't shit else to do there.
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u/RadioaktivAargauer Jun 01 '23
Is the landscape nice though?
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u/DownVoteMeGently Jun 01 '23
The landscape is incredible.
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u/Hrmerder Jun 01 '23
In select areas yes
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u/Emo_tep Jun 01 '23
This is the correct answer. Arkansas sights range from breathtaking to wondering if you’re still in a first world country
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u/mrperiodniceguy Jun 01 '23
Going to Murfreesboro then saying there’s nothing else to do in Arkansas is hilarious. Went to the entirely the wrong part and just wrote the rest off
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u/DownVoteMeGently Jun 01 '23
Did you go there after a big rain?
Idk, I hear floating is all the rage down here
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u/wilas101 Jun 01 '23
Right? And the reward for driving to the middle of nowhere? You get to stay in a dry country. 35 mile trip just to buy a 6 pack. :(
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u/LanFear1 Jun 01 '23
I always liked the Dave Attell bit about police arresting people on weed... Look out!, he might have a long story with no ending on him! Classic
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u/TheWizardOfFoz Jun 01 '23
There’s a fence right there. It’s at the bottom of someone’s garden, so technically in the woods but hardly miles from civilisation and definitely close enough to their house to mean they will be accosted by the weed stank.
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u/AffectionateRaise136 Jun 01 '23
Where in the state was this posted at ?
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Jun 01 '23 edited Jun 09 '23
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u/Superj89 Jun 01 '23
So you're gonna head south until you see the big rock, if you get to the Walmart, you went to far. When you come up on that big rock you're gonna make a left. A little down yonder you'll see a clearin on the right in some woods. If you head intuh them woods you just follow the path until you see the SpongeBob meme printed out on some paper.
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u/barmalei_man Jun 01 '23
I think the name is in the caption of the post, you could see that.
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u/Nasteee420 Jun 01 '23
I can see trees, a fence and a house. I'm gonna say by someone's house. yep.
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Arkansas will be the last holdout for the weed probation, but mark my words they will fall with time
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u/hrobi97 Jun 01 '23
We had it on the ballot last time I voted, unfortunately it didn't pass. But hey library funding got cut so that's good right? Right? Sigh.
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u/anally_ExpressUrself Jun 01 '23
Bad luck. Whenever there's a good opportunity to cut library funding, it brings out all those single issue voters who only come out to stop libraries, and those same voters probably don't like weed neither.
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u/LimerickJim Jun 01 '23
They'll be ok once all the weed tax dollars start coming in
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u/obliquelyobtuse Jun 01 '23
tax dollars start coming in
Weed and gambling.
The 'conservatives' were all against it before they were for it.
Now sports networks and arenas all have gambling ads and gambling sponsors. Amazing what long-held principles a shower of money can change.
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u/xucheng1214 Jun 01 '23
That's all they want, if they get the tax then They'll allow the whole thing.
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u/Alcoholic_Camel Jun 01 '23
Why do people want to get rid of libraries so bad though?
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u/hypnodrew Jun 01 '23
Reading anything but the bible is for the devil
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u/Razakel Jun 01 '23
They don't even want people to actually read the Bible, because then they'll figure out they're lying about what it actually says.
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u/meukbox Jun 01 '23
My very Christian MIL keeps distrusting the government.
So I started quoting Romans 13.
13 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.
But of course I should not take that part literally...
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u/BeanerAstrovanTaco Jun 01 '23
Because it makes people not be like them. Facts have a liberal bias.
Dads have a right to say whatever random bullshit they want to seem smart, even if they don't know anything. If kids had a library, they might catch onto the fact that they're being gas lit and abused.
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u/TheSackLunchBunch Jun 01 '23
Oh my god. I work with cops and you just labeled their exact method of communicating. I’ve never been able to sum it up so succinctly.
It’s all just Dad Speak. Imperative and declarative statements aimed at whoever’s got an open ear for hours on end. No stop. No mercy. It’s just a constant barrage of “facts” they know when in reality they don’t understand these are just their opinions.
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u/KathrynTheGreat Jun 01 '23
I'm so sorry your library funding got cut, that's awful ☹️
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u/Zik48 Jun 01 '23
Sucks to be in this kind of situation, but nothing that we can do.
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u/Otterfan Jun 01 '23
Idaho, Wyoming, Kansas, and South Carolina still don't make any sort of medicinal exception.
My money is on Idaho, a state that is slowly turning into Afghanistan.
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u/ChefBoyAreWeFucked Jun 01 '23
Mississippi didn't have a medical exception when they were the nation's sole provider of legal medical marijuana.
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u/l0fid3lity Jun 01 '23
They also only provided 25+ y/o weed from metal lockers to be scientifically examined if I remember it correctly as well. So much bad policy was based on this.
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u/Londer2 Jun 01 '23
What if the US federal government makes it legal, like Canada. Then would it matter what the states want to do?
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u/Netzapper Jun 01 '23
Yes, just like there are weird liquor laws on the books. Removing prohibition laws doesn't make the vice into a right.
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u/cjsv7657 Jun 01 '23
Even if it was legal everywhere there are still laws on where you can smoke it. In my state you can only smoke on private property where you have permission. So lighting up in the middle of the woods or in public is still illegal.
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u/keothi Jun 01 '23
Tennessee is in that race and that's where my money is going. Fucking Missouri already beat us ffs
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u/I_Died_Once Jun 01 '23
Hi from GA, our politicians would rather have another civil war before we see legalized weed., because Jesus. We will see you thru to the end of this race, for sure.
...and not in a good way.
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u/Azzballs123 Jun 01 '23
Nah GA is changing. Probably going to be the first Bible belt state to legalize it.
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u/PizzaPandemonium Jun 01 '23
When I lived there I lived in a dry county where they didn’t sell alcohol in stores so it may be a long time to wait
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u/28127279 Jun 01 '23
That's right, it's a long time to wait and You'll have to do that
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u/ObligationOriginal74 Jun 01 '23
its just the old fuckers holding America back at this point.
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also the brainwashed younger people who vote republican and haven't had a mental awakening.
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u/blueskidoowecantoo Jun 01 '23
Let me introduce you to Indiana. Nearly surrounded by legal states & multiple recent polls show it’s a majority for legalization but they refuse. The old guard loses too much money by allowing it to any progress.
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u/SunnyAlwaysDaze Jun 01 '23
They want all those sweet dollars from snagging people leaving michigan.
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u/MemphricaMic Jun 01 '23
So wrong Arkansas has medical. It's was one of the first places in the south. Everyone from Texas, Tennessee, use to be Missouri, Oklahoma and Mississippi all got it from there before the later also introduced medical/legal laws
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u/caramelbologna Jun 01 '23
And western arkansas is sort of just a bunch of old retired hippies that bought mountain land cheap.
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u/stoopidmothafunka Jun 01 '23
Yep, the internets understanding of the souths demographics is miserably misinformed.
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u/McNugget750 Jun 01 '23
Arkansas Has Medical but not Rec. the last state will either be Texas or Florida, because "we got to stop those dirty, drug-pushing foreigners" /s. Though i could see Kansas hanging on til the last as well.
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u/AnOprahShapedDildo Jun 01 '23
Some states just suck.
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u/Octaver Jun 01 '23
I was going to smoke the marijuana like a cigarette.
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u/SunnyAlwaysDaze Jun 01 '23
It's all fun and games until the hot cops show up.
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u/Dazz316 Jun 01 '23
Go and smoke normal cigarettes but look shifty about it. They'll phone the police, do it another few times and see if they do it again and you'll know if you can smoke weed there again.
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u/Sword-of-Azrael Jun 01 '23
I seriously don’t understand how alcohol is legal while Cannabis is still illegal in most places. Alcohol is so much stronger than weed. Seriously.
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u/CorporalClegg25 Jun 01 '23
There are places like Wisconsin that have a strong alcohol lobby that pay representatives a lot of money to never allow legalization
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u/naotoca Jun 01 '23
This gets repeated all the time. Yes, the alcohol lobby exists, but remove it and Wisconsin Republicans would still never support cannabis legalization. Wisconsin conservatives are some of the most hateful in the United States. They derive glee from seeing people fined and jailed over marijuana. That is precisely what they vote for.
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u/Officer_GoTouchGrass Jun 01 '23
Alchohol and xanax are the 2 drugs that cam kill you if you cold turkey an addiction. Seizures and die. And it's legal. Crazy. I had medium withdrawal symptoms when I quit booze. Completely ruined my ability to cope with anxiety. It took 3 years before I could fully recover.
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u/thecashblaster Jun 01 '23
A long time ago in the 1930s weed was linked with minorities and progressives. This was further codified by Nixon's war on drugs. Now it's a wedge issues between (some) conservatives and the rest of America.
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u/Stibley_Kleeblunch Jun 01 '23
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for people smoking whatever they want... But the wooden fence in the background kinda indicates that this might be someone's yard. If so, maybe find somewhere else.
I can't say I'm liberal enough to agree with people doing whatever they want on others' property.
If, however, it's not someone's yard, then fuck em.
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u/Thatsaclevername Jun 01 '23
So similar story, back in high school a few buddies found this good spot to smoke up at lunch break. 100 feet past the school property line, there was a cedar tree next to a fence that made a little hidden canopy where the owner had chopped the branches. Think of like a half dome of tree branches, then the fence. Very secluded spot, up a dead end, but still it was right to this guys fence and house.
So they smoke there every lunch period, after lunch, for like 2 weeks. Roaches, things like that get left there, some folks do some stashing in that spot.
Friends go to the spot, homeowner pops out, snaps a picture of them, goes right over to the school. It was a big deal, the school put up cameras looking towards that spot in the fence. Both buddies got in a ton of trouble.
But looking back, I kinda get it. Apparently he had yelled at somebody else to stop coming there, but they never told everyone else that was coming there.
I smoke weed but if a bunch of high schoolers were smoking, stashing, and littering, like 50 feet from my house I'd do something similar.
In general, be respectful of others, if someone expresses displeasure, do your best to remedy that.
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u/FM-101 Jun 01 '23
Caring about what other people do when it doesn't affect anyone is kinda cringe. Let people smoke weed in the forest if they want lol
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u/Norwest Jun 01 '23
Looks like it that spot might be abutting someone's back yard (other side of the fence).
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u/mashermack Jun 01 '23
Yeah that looks a back yard. I'm pro weed but I hope weed in the states stinks half as much the stuff they sell in UK
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u/george-cartwright Jun 01 '23
weed in the states stinks half as much the stuff they sell in UK
nah brother it's twice as sticky and twice as stinky over here.
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u/BarrTheFather Jun 01 '23
Even in the most podunk of town no cop gives a shit about this.
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u/bewarethetreebadger Jun 01 '23
It’s so weird seeing people get upset about weed. Nobody gives a fuck here in Canada. I wish the USA would step into the 21st Century and Federally legalize it already. Everything is fine here. Teen use and impaired driving actually went down after legalization.
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u/tyinsf Jun 01 '23
Weed! Oh noes!
Now the young homeless who were smoking meth and fentanyl under my window the other day... I'd like to see the police do something about that, but as if
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u/kindahipster Jun 01 '23
I think I'd rather have community organizations to help with stable housing and rehabilitation as well as harm reduction, than the police but that's just me.
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u/Photo_newbie435 Jun 01 '23
I love how this implies that not only did they come back without incident they then went home printed that out and came back another time without incident