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This is a zoning issue, not a marijuana issue. Why did the government allow a greenhouse which was zoned for daises swap to marijuana? Yes, marijuana stinks. So do slaughter houses and landfills. There's a reason we don't zone these near residential areas.
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Don't worry. Experience from Washington and Colorado shows that over time smokers move to vaping and concentrate because it's vastly more convenient than carrying a bunch of plant matter around. The vape cartridges and the concentrate wax are essentially scent-free. Certainly less smelly than nicotine and recreational non-drug vapes. Industrial production will move out into the country as with any agricultural or liv…
How is a vape pen more convenient than a couple of joints? The joints don't require batteries and after you smoke them there's nothing to carry around!
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These are ordinary legal businesses. They don't murder people, any more than liquor store owners shoot at each other. Not resorting to extra-legal means to settle business disputes is one of the big advantages of decriminalization.
They aren't ordinary legal businesses. It is a fact that they are still illegal under federal law, regardless of whether you or I agree with that. If you have ever spent any time in Humboldt County, you would know that if you don't enjoy being shot at, you should stay away from marijuana grow operations.
As for Humboldt County grow operations... see what I wrote earlier about the benefits of decriminalization. There's no reason for legal businesses to shoot at anyone. They're supposed to call the cops when they need someone shot, and they do. Shooting trespassers at rural grow operations is an anachronism from the days when that was their only recourse to defend their business.
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Don't worry. Experience from Washington and Colorado shows that over time smokers move to vaping and concentrate because it's vastly more convenient than carrying a bunch of plant matter around. The vape cartridges and the concentrate wax are essentially scent-free. Certainly less smelly than nicotine and recreational non-drug vapes. Industrial production will move out into the country as with any agricultural or liv…
How is a vape pen more convenient than a couple of joints? The joints don't require batteries and after you smoke them there's nothing to carry around!
Ultimately, this is an ordinary agriculture problem. The media will be all "WOOO POT!" about it because it's new and controversial, but the odor problem is the same problem you get from all sorts of farming practices, some of which smell considerably worse than even a big pot farm (which is pretty stinky). It'll get solved the way all such problems get solved - zoning. Same thing that keeps you from having a hog farm…
"But she says she made the choice to live next to a dairy farm and prefers that smell to the odor that drifted over from the marijuana farm next door to her house."
So it's okay to make a smell if it's one you prefer. If you're some whacko anti-pot person who thinks that it's going to destroy society, you'll find any reason to not like the pot.
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Don't worry. Experience from Washington and Colorado shows that over time smokers move to vaping and concentrate because it's vastly more convenient than carrying a bunch of plant matter around. The vape cartridges and the concentrate wax are essentially scent-free. Certainly less smelly than nicotine and recreational non-drug vapes. Industrial production will move out into the country as with any agricultural or liv…
How is a vape pen more convenient than a couple of joints? The joints don't require batteries and after you smoke them there's nothing to carry around!
The user pushes a button, breathes in some vaporized oil, and puts the battery back in their pocket or bag. It takes about four seconds. A user could do this in a bathroom, a confessional at church, on a bus or on a train.
It is much easier than setting something on fire, passing it around while it's burning, and then putting that fire out.
A gram cartridge is about the size of a pen cap, lasts even a heavy user for a week or more, and doesn't make the user's bag smell like weed.
Are you imagining those giant wizard vapes that are the size of a pack of cards?
I wonder if this is worse than living near a hog farm?
As a former resident of Indiana, no, it's not. Different, yes, but nothing is quite as bad as a holding pond at a hog farm on a hot summer's day.
I studied forestry and know what I prefer on a hot summer's day, the orangey tang of a Douglas fir stand or the resinous smell in a pine forest on sandy soil are infinitely preferable over both hogs and chickens. Or weed, for that matter.
Ultimately, this is an ordinary agriculture problem. The media will be all "WOOO POT!" about it because it's new and controversial, but the odor problem is the same problem you get from all sorts of farming practices, some of which smell considerably worse than even a big pot farm (which is pretty stinky). It'll get solved the way all such problems get solved - zoning. Same thing that keeps you from having a hog farm…