I'm going to challenge this paradigm of "Oh! We mustn't consume
cannabis in front of the children!" I disagree with the idea, not if the
goal is for cannabis consumption to be normalized and accepted by the majority of society.
Rather like polygamy (been watching Sister Wives), but that's another thing entirely.
Bottom line is if it doesn't passes the Feds will view this as the general public does not want marijuana legal in our state! If it does pass we will have a better chance that the feds will reduce marijuana form it's schedule 1 status seeing it has majority support of the people... If it does pass... Let's be honest, everyones worried about the taxing... That's the real issue at steak... Oh no, I'm not going to get my 42 per bow... Oh no what do I do now... No ones coming to take your kids for smoking a joint, and honestly y are u smoking weed infront of your kids anyway??? I can understand if you live in a trailor park this may be how u were raised and how u are raising your kids but for the rest of us, we don't smoke weed infront of our kids nor would I want my kids to be doing the same thing I am doing...
And there it is, you passing judgment upon someone because they might consume cannabis in the presence of a child. I don't hotbox my home, I don't drink, in fact I'm a teetotaler, I don't get baked and I never let my own behavior get out of control. But judgment passes upon *me* because I use the pipe if I should use it in the presence of a child?
In that ONE post you have revealed
all of your true prejudices, as well as very nicely demonstrating what I've been saying about the folly of trying to make what is
still viewed as a street drug something that only resembles legal on the surface.
You yourself still view it as a street drug and something that the precious children must be shielded from. Do you teach your kids about sex, or do you shield them from that, too? Let 'em learn it on the schoolyard, yeah?
You belie the truth of your own views in that one post.
I don't have kids, but if I did I'd think I wouldn't smoke around my four year old but I'd like to think I could be honest with my sixteen year old. In the eyes of this law, there's no difference between them.
I do have kids, now young adults (oldest son grows), and I already went through hiding everything from them and it meant not a thing. I have changed my stance and feel it should be treated like drinking wine at the table with dinner, an after work beer, cigarettes, and sex--it's something adults do, not children. End of story. Merely being in the presence of these substances, even while being consumed, is not inherently bad, evil, neglectful or abusive, with the highly notable exception of smoking tobacco, especially in enclosed spaces, cigarettes to be precise (I haven't seen the same numbers associated with pipe tobacco or cigar use and childhood illnesses as I have with ciggies).
I asked a rather pointed question, same one I've been asking of the Yes Crowd, about defining legalization. It has yet to be answered.
I have also continually pointed out how I am still battling in my county to have some sort of dispensary model, as have others, to no avail. No answer to that from the Yes Crowd, no acknowledgement even! One huge county, San Diego, is known for their work against this model that is outlined in the proposition and for which our own state attorney general has given good operating guidelines for, so that district attorneys have a legal compass. Has that been addressed by the Yes Crowd?
Nope.