Point of reference regarding medical marijuana: there are varieties specifically grown to target pain, and that produce a very minimal high.
Yes. Convoluted is the word of the day.
Good Lord, if you have pain that can only be relieved by THC you have my sympathies. Smoking a joint while walking down the street doesn’t constitute
medical relief in my book. Spoken as an ex-pot-head. YMMV, just responding to the OP.
I almost asked if you were high, then I considered the thread.
Seriously, though, the smell of skunk is really sharp and harsh, but it doesn’t seem to linger in my nose the same way weed does.
True. I would post cites to back you up but it is time to put the kids to bed.
Good point though.
I believe we have all totally hijacked the original intention of this thread.
Sorry jsgoddess 
Everybody’s entitled to their harmless vice. But they should make sure it doesn’t affect others as they go about their day. That’s pretty much it. Don’t irritate others with your stank.
Menthol-juana.
It used to smell good, and different kinds had different scents. I don’t know when or why skunk-weed became the norm.
I really don’t see how one could be trapped behind any offensive odor on a sidewalk, out in the open, with all the options available to avoid it.
I think this has less to do with legalization and more to do with plain old bad manners. I suspect there will be a frenzy of public pot smoking as the legalization wave washes across the good old US of A, but hopefully it won’t last, once the novelty wears off.
If someone feels free to smoke next to me, I feel free to fart next to them.
So you were at Berkeley?
In, not at. Grew up in the East Bay, worked in Berkeley for a few years, then lived there for a year or two.
If someone feels free to fart next to me then I feel free to punch them in the face and then pee in their nose.
Or, like tobacco, maybe pot will be legal but you can’t smoke it in a public building, or in certain parks. Only in front of **jsgoddess **on the sidewalk, or your private deck just below hers.
I’ll be the pot cloud version of Rob McKenna.
If someone near me feels free to punch a farter in the face and then pee in their nose, then I feel free to make a viral video of it.
If someone makes a viral video of it, I feel free to watch said video while smoking weed and laughing like a fool.
If you do that next to someone who has Adaher’s philosophy you risk starting a recursive subroutine and crashing the universe when it runs out of stack space.
That would stink.
And you can probably count on your fingers the number of people who actually grow those varieties.
One downside that has been noticed in Michigan, which has legalized medical marijuana: an upswing in crime around the dispensaries. Both from break-ins at the dispensaries, and from people robbing customers for their weed. As a result, a number of cities are starting to treat them like strip clubs and are passing ordinances prohibiting them.