SAVE A PRAYER
How is it that the very people who can smell a cigarette from 25 feet and start waving their arms and complaining that their air is being polluted are all for legalizing weed so it can conceivably be smoked anywhere?
So should pot become the new single-malt scotch — the hipster musthave at the fanciest dinner parties? Yes. And no.
For one thing, scotch doesn’t stink up the joint like a joint does – even when people get stinking drunk. If you live in an apartment building, pot — especially skunk weed — smells like somebody left a dead forest creature in the garbage room, which leaves the hallway air stanky for hours.
Yet if you listen to New York pols, you’d think weed was the panacea for crime, unhappiness, and racial inequality since more people of color get arrested for toking up in public than white hipsters. So they’re playing the race card to get pot legalized. Do any of these people actually live in apartment buildings? Pot smoke stinks up the halls, seeps into adjacent
apartments, Keep your thoughts and prayers to yourself you phony pro-gun politicians. Your thoughts and prayers are as blatant an act of cruelty as a serial killer sending flowers to the funerals of his victims.
You NRA-loving elected officials may not have pulled the trigger personally at Santa Fe High School, but you put the guns into the hands of the 17-year-old (whom I will not further publicize by naming him) who did.
There has been on average, one school shooting a week this year and 101 mass murders so far.
So save your thoughts and prayers, and instead save our children with gun control legislation that we all can live with. Your right to bear assault weapons doesn’t trump (nor “Trump”) our children’s right to stay alive. even stinks up the elevators when weed smokers get in. Worst of all, it forces parents of babies to stuff towels under their doors to keep their infants from getting contact highs.
So how is it that it’s OK to complain if someone smokes a cigarette, but it’s not cool to complain about weed whackers whose smoke fouls the air and violates others’ right to live in a clean-smoke-free space?
I would have liked to have met the guy who first convinced people that setting fire and inhaling burning leaves — no matter what kind of leaves — was a great idea. Hey, lets set this plant on fire and smoke it? Yay!
Look, I’m all for legalizing marijuana — just not violating everyone else’s space with smoke and endangering the health of children in nonventilated spaces. It’s not fair if the choice is either opening windows during icy, freezing nights or letting your infants be exposed to pot fumes.
But in reality we ain’t there yet. Proof of that is State Sen. Liz Krueger’s sponsored “marihuana regulation and taxation act,” which stresses how African-American and Latinos have been targeted for pot arrests, yet ironically enough uses the ancient, virulently anti-Mexican spelling of the “marihuana” taken from the Marihuana Tax Act of the 1930s, according to Smoke Signals by Martin Lee.
Lawmakers should sign a bill similar to Colorado’s, where you can’t use marijuana in public places, but it’s legal (and fun) to eat it, infuse it, drink it, moisturize, bathe in it, or whoop it up like Whoopi Goldberg with her cannabis-infused salves, balms and edibles elsewhere. Of course, eating it in cakes, cookies, brownies, candy, pulled pork and mac and cheese to name a few, as they do in Colorado, is the perfect solution because you get to feed the marijuana munchies and get high at the same time.
Unfortunately you might also get fat from too much pulled pork and candy, which would cause the same people who gripe about cigarette smoke to gripe about calories.