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Originally posted by Yug@Feb 15 2005, 03:49 PM
I wouldnt want people going out for a 'smoke' break and having a joint. Cigarettes are addictive and give you a 'high', but pot affects the mind in much more dramatic ways. Think about this ... if you legalised pot, you would have people smoking it at resturants, playgrounds, at the beach, etc.
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Those arguments don't hold water really.
If weed were legal, it would fall under the same sort of regulations as alcohol or other substances do. Employers have the right to prohibit smoking it while working, the cities and states could regulate where you could legally smoke it, etc.
I live in Venice Beach, arguably the hippy capital of the world. Since it's in California, you can't smoke in restaurants, you can't smoke within 50 feet of a workplace door. You can't smoke on the beach in most towns down the coast (because of the littering not the smoke) and so on.
Saying that you'd have a bunch of stoners sitting around everywhere you go smoking all the time is unrealistic.
And believe me, the people that are smoking weed on their work breaks or on the beach aren't going to give one more shit whether its legal or not since they do it now.