Certain types of mushrooms, hell even sugars. They all blend the line between “drugs”( OMG BAD!!! ) and foodstuffs… Seems like a perfectly logical comparison.

For example, I don’t like little kids when they’re hopped up on sugar and caffeine. I certainly don’t think less of them for enjoying a holiday like halloween though :).

For me, I’ve been around the smell of marijuana and it makes me feel like I’m going to throw up. That makes, say, a 311 concert a combination of fun and discomfort.

that statement kind of makes the substance in question arbitrary. you’re saying the smell of something makes you feel like you’re going to throw up. you also said you think less of people who enjoy that thing whose smell makes you feel like you’re going to throw up. like i said, the quoted statement pretty much makes the actual substance arbitrary, so i compared to something that makes me nauseous and pointed out that i don’t think any less of people who don’t get that nauseous feeling.

like i said, i find the issue interesting, and i’m interested in the opinions of others, including what leads people to hold these opinions. based on what you have said, i can’t figure you out. first you said you think less of someone for smoking pot, then you said you’ve never been interested in pot, then you said the smell makes you feel like you’re going to throw up. i’m still interested in the logic of thinking less of someone for smoking pot if pot just doesn’t interest you. but maybe i should be interested in the logic of thinking less of someone for smoking pot because the smell of pot makes you feel like you’re going to throw up.

then again,

I’m not really interested in the logic of it ;-)

so i guess the answer is that there is no logic behind it. the unjustified prejudice against those who smoke pot baffles me, which is why i press on. and then you say you aren’t interested in the logic of it? is there any logic behind it? is it comparable to racism and homophobia? a lot of racism and homophobia boils down to fear/dislike of those who are different…

There should be non-smoking zones in areas like that, and very busy sidewalks.

It’s not hard to smoke in a designated area, or away from moving crowds.

Then again, I dislike blanket smoking bans in public parks. They seem to be more of an excuse to give park rangers and cops something to ticket for revenue than to actually improve the quality of life. Public parks should have smoking zones, just like they have BBQ zones.

what i was trying to say is somebody else likes olives and i don’t, so we have different tastes in food, but i don’t think any less of them. FF was saying he thinks less of people who smoke pot, which i don’t understand because some guy smoking pot doesn’t have a direct effect on FF. somebody smoking pot near FF and forcing FF to smell it is a different issue. i would support FF thinking less of somebody because they smoked next to him and made him smell a smell that he doesn’t like, but i still don’t get why FF thinks less of somebody for doing something that doesn’t effect him.

i don’t enjoy wearing women’s panties, but larry david happens to enjoy wearing women’s panties, and i don’t think any less of him for it.

He was on I-5 headed for Bellevue, about three hours away, so he wasn’t going to smoke at a stoplight. If he was planning to stop in a rest area and smoke, then I would call that something he shouldn’t do.

Less clear where he was coming from, but my impression was he was driving north from California, so he probably hadn’t been smoking at a buddy’s house either.

Agreed about the cop judging he wasn’t impaired.

Also agreed that he should have put it in the trunk. That way the cop probably won’t smell it at all and won’t even ask. If he does smell it, or if he routinely asks, then you fess up and say, yes, there’s some in the trunk.

The question was why the guy was wearing a #12 jersey. RRS deduced from the date of the album that it must have been for Rich Gannon.

What Gannon are you talking about?