# Why I posted about smoking with my husband. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 1, 2002, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-posted-about-smoking-with-my-husband/121792 "2002-08-01T01:20:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![blinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@blinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinx)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-posted-about-smoking-with-my-husband/121792/21 "2002-08-01T07:53:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > \*\*Well, I’m glad to hear I’m not condemned by all! \*\* Centainly not, I smoked with my ex, we’re still living together and still enjoy an evening of smoke and munchies infront of the playstation 🙂 Oh… living with a girl that likes to both smoke and play playstation isn’t so bad 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ageless6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@ageless6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ageless6)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-posted-about-smoking-with-my-husband/121792/22 "2002-08-01T09:17:55Z")
I turned 63 last Friday. I’m certainly glad I didn’t go with my SO up to Mt. Diablo, toke up and get gleefully lost in a maze of trails in a section called “Rock City.” That could have been disastrous. I’m also glad I didn’t have a few tokes tonight. (Even if I had, I might not have inhaled, for all you know. Maybe I just like the aroma sometimes.) If I had, I’d probably be pretty sleepy by now. Gee, just thinking about it HAS made me kinda sleepy. Yep, I’m glad I gave up that devil-weed when I was in my twenties. No telling how it might have twisted my brain. It’s illegal, you say? Then how can anyone smoke it? You can’t just pick and choose which laws to obey…can you? ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-posted-about-smoking-with-my-husband/121792/23 "2002-08-01T10:42:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > \*\* > What is it that you do? > \*\* I’m a respiratory therapist, **Rilch**. Bet you thought I was gonna say undertaker, right? :D:D:D:D:D Having said that, I need to tell you that I no longer preach abstinence to people who smoke. For one thing, they already **know** what it can do, and for another, who am **I** to dictate their lifestyle? In my hospital I take care of a couple of quadraplegics (sp?) and smoking is one of the few pleasures they enjoy. So if you and the hub are enjoying it, then that’s okay by me. Quasi ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-posted-about-smoking-with-my-husband/121792/24 "2002-08-01T10:58:38Z")
To get round disapprobation of the mods, perhaps you’d get away with it if you preface all comments about pot smoking with the words “When I was in the Netherlands, where it’s decriminalized ;)” ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-posted-about-smoking-with-my-husband/121792/25 "2002-08-01T11:40:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > \*\*Well, I’m glad to hear I’m not condemned by all! \*\* Not at all! I live for the day when I can get high with **Astrogirl**! (of course, in Amsterdam! Where it has been decriminalized. Of course!) But I do understand why the [other thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=128479) was locked. Don’t take it personally. (link included for those, like me, who wondered what we were talking about…) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-posted-about-smoking-with-my-husband/121792/26 "2002-08-01T11:57:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Quasimodem \* > \*\* > > I’m a respiratory therapist, **Rilch**. Bet you thought I was gonna say undertaker, right? :D:D:D:D:D\*\* No, I thought you were going to say “cop”. 😃 [Anecdotes]Several (I don’t know precisely how many) of the dumbest dopers I’ve ever known of, I never saw. I was on an Amtrak en route from Chicago to Santa Fe. Well, really Lamy, if you want to split hairs. Anyway, we were about an hour out of Chicago when a voice came on the PA: “Attention, the people in the private compartment, and you know who you are. We know what you’re smoking in there, and it’s too late to put it out.” Silence, then, “The state troopers have been alerted, and they’ll be waiting for you when we stop in [unscheduled town].” I got scared just hearing that, and I didn’t even have anything **with** me. Whispering among other passengers; then the train stopped in [town] and everyone rushed to the left side of the train to peer out the windows. My car was too far back, though, and the stewards or whatever they’re called wouldn’t let anyone through the links. Another candidate for “dumbest doper” would be Bill Murray. Several years before his tenure on SNL, he was in an airport and jokingly asked the baggage handlers to be careful with the “bomb” in his suitcase. Which turned out to be a kilo. Of course, today, that statement would qualify a person for dumbest **anything**.[/Anecdotes] \*\* > [@](#): > > Having said that, I need to tell you that I no longer preach abstinence to people who smoke. For one thing, they already **know** what it can do, and for another, who am **I** to dictate their lifestyle? In my hospital I take care of a couple of quadraplegics (sp?) and smoking is one of the few pleasures they enjoy.\*\* Yes, I’ve heard that the “what the hell else could go wrong” attitude is fairly common. \*\* > [@](#): > > So if you and the hub are enjoying it, then that’s okay by me. > > Quasi \*\* Okay then! **jjimm** : I’ll remember that! ---
**Author:** ![kitarak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kitarak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitarak)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-posted-about-smoking-with-my-husband/121792/27 "2002-08-01T21:52:41Z")
Just for the record, I shall add my vote. You have my support here, and I don’t think the thread should have been closed. I don’t like dope myself, but then I don’t like cigarettes, alchohol or meat either. That’s no reason anyone else shouldn’t enjoy them. I mean, granted I still think that talking about doing something illegal on a public message board isn’t the greatest idea, but again that’s your call. Incidentally, anyone else think it’s mildly ironic to close threads about dope on the SDopeMB? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-posted-about-smoking-with-my-husband/121792/28 "2002-08-01T22:25:57Z")
**kitarak** : Hie the to the Pit, where board policy is being loudly debated. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-posted-about-smoking-with-my-husband/121792/29 "2002-08-01T22:26:46Z")
I want to say that I agree with the posters who said that the other post should have stayed open. Especially since it was cleared with four of the mods. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-posted-about-smoking-with-my-husband/121792/30 "2002-08-01T23:22:35Z")
My first thought was that you shouldn’t have been suprised in the least that the thread was closed. There has been a long standing policy which is enforced _almost_ all of the time that posting about illegal activity be it illegal drugs or illegal file sharing is not allowed. I was going to disagree with the OP until I read later that you had cleared it with four Mods. **Rilch** , the fact that you had cleared it with multiple Mods is key to your entire argument. That something that should have been in the OP of the thread. It might also have been a good idea to preface the post in the locked thread with that fact. I think it may have saved a bit of heartache here. Haj [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-posted-about-smoking-with-my-husband/121792.md?page=1)