I can't stand the stuff either. If I can smell it then it's going up my nose and getting into my blood stream and effecting me. For some people it makes them happy and they laugh and giggle. Others, like myself, it has the opposite effect. It actually make me angry and tense. Also, think about how you would feel if someone dropped a drug pill in your drink against your will. You finish your drink and now you are drugged. That's how I feel when I inhale someone's pot smoke. Too late, now I am drugged against my will and feeling edgy. But, I already know to not expect a stoner to give any concern about how that effects me. Why would I expect a pothead to care. I say that from experience because I have confronted several when it happens to me. None every apologize. They say things like," I find that hard to believe", or, "really", or, "so you're getting high for free", or, well you don't have to smoke it if you don't want to", and other stupid stuff. Here in California the freeway billboards are plastered with marijuana shop ads, casino gambling ads, bail bond ads, and lawyer ads. We have seen a big increase in pot use including illegal trade and sales to minors. I mean 3rd graders. After all, how can you be a cool 3rd grader if you don't smoke pot while playing video games. There is an entire portion of Desert Hot Springs dedicated to marijuana cultivation. Giant warehouse buildings going up being designed and advertised as marijuana growing facilities. The homeless and crime in the area is growing rapidly, the housing is turning to ghettos, people are moving to other towns or to the other side of DHS to get away. The smell of the pollen is all over the of area. It's very strong and pungent with a hint of sweetness and a hint of skunk at the same time. Residents and traffic are subject to inhaling it unless they don't want to breath. Desert Ice Castle/Ice Capades ice skating rink in Cathedral City is directly across the street from a big pot growing facility. Which is basically next door to the Social Services Department. The rink attracts mostly teenagers on down to kindergarten age and families. I have seen people covering their faces with their shirts and shirt sleeves as they hurry along commenting about the stink when going from the parking lot to get inside the skate rink as fast as possible. It's really disgusting.
I have a young person very close to me who started out smoking pot as a young teenager and is now a hard core drug addict, heroin mostly, but whatever can be had the easiest and fastest every day seems to be the primary goal. Can't keep (or get) a job. Amazingly employers don't like to hire people who smell like pot on job interviews. So, stealing, shop lifting, identity theft and bad check writing, multiple arrest and fed kicks are getting by as she sneaks into friends houses to sleep at night after sleeping most of the day outside somewhere. Friends who, by the way, are in their mid to late 20s, live with their parents, don't have jobs, have marijuana prescriptions and are great at playing video games.
Irony; California leads the trend at making cigarette smoking illegal in public places due to public health issues yet condones recreational marijuana. More irony, Colorado recalls cantelope melons when discovered they might have bacteria on them that could cause illness, hospitalization and/or death. Why doesn't Colorado recall tobacco products. Cigarettes have been discovered to cause illness, hospitalization, emphysema, cancer, heart disease, death, etc,... Why not do a recall on all cigarettes?
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BTW, I smoked pot and cigarettes from age 12 to 24. Now approaching 55.

Does the noise in your head bother me ?