Republicans use cannabis smell complaints as ‘excuse’ to oppose legalization, advocates say

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1. >Some Republican lawmakers, including Florida governor Ron DeSantis, say that the now-public consumption of marijuana is a nuisance to people who don’t like the smell and a quality-of-life issue.

   For fucks sake . . . Republicans love grasping at fucking straws.

2. While the smoke their cigars. I would take cannibis over cigars and cigarettes any day.

3. I don’t like the way republicans smell but I have to put up with it

4. Everything Republicans say is nonsense. Can’t be reasoned with.

5. Have they even smelled their presidential candidate?

6. A valid excuse I‘d say. If you wanna smoke weed, do it in your basement, not in my face

7. I don’t like the smell of bullshit so we should ban the GOP as well…quality of life and all that.

8. You can legalise cannabis without legalising smoking it.

   Cannabis is legal in the UK with a prescription but smoking it is still illegal. It has to be eaten or vaped for health reasons but it also means there is less smell.

9. How can people who swim in bullshit have a problem with the smell of weed? How can they even smell weed?

10. I’m all for legalization. But when I’m in my sealed car using air conditioning and other cars’ weed smell comes through….thats damn annoying.

11. Meanwhile non cigarette smokers love that smell!

12. I don’t like the way old people smell, but I don’t call to fucking outlaw them.

13. I’m all for legalization but would support a ban on smoking/vaping (anything) in public.

14. Now do cars.

15. I mean fair enough. You can’t ban tobacco because of the smoke/smell but allow cannabis

16. Just make up anything by blowing smoke to raise money for your NEW PAC group to fight amendment 3.

    It’s the end of the world if Desantis does not get his way.
    Sound familiar?

17. Meanwhile MAGAts cool with smelling like a 3/4 empty can of Keystone turned dip cup being used as an ashtray with a dash of anime-convention-level BO.

18. I don’t like smelling bad breath, body odor, or cigarette smoke either. Republicans usually have all three. But here we are.

19. cool so we’re banning nicotine products and combustion engines? i hate the smell of natural gas adulterants, let’s talk about stoves

20. I smoke cigars and smell is _absolutely_ a reason to limit the use of something. I make sure I smoke where it doesn’t bother anyone. I’m fine with not smoking in public parks.

    That’s not to say Republicans aren’t being unreasonable here. There’s no reason you can’t just limit weed to places where cigars and cigarettes are limited to, but all the maladjusted redditors commenting that smell doesn’t matter here are ignorant. It’s important to have places where you can just get a breath of fresh air. You’re just not going to get an appreciation for that from people who haven’t gone outside to touch grass in a year

21. Hahaha I love how they’re offended by this but take campaign donations from big tobacco and say “snowflake” as they blow their cigar plume at people

22. What if I love the smell of the sticky icky

23. But they need a cigar room?

24. Yeah, what about edibles? They smell delicious.

25. No problem going maskless and exposing people to a deadly virus via exhalation, but exposing people to a smell they might find unpleasant via exhalation is a bridge too far!

26. “What about beer breath?”
    “…No comment.”

27. What about the smell of their huge ass trucks?

28. Great idea!!!

    We should ban all gas guzzling cars on account of the smell; rolling coal and gas stations stink

    We should ban ointments and oils, they give me a migraine, no more lotions

    We should ban perfume and hairspray; my nostrils are not your pheromone playground

    We should ban dogs and cats and birds they all have a smell and we can smell it on you

    Burn pits have to go I can smell them for miles and miles

    Factory exhausts are all smell, we should ban factories

    Pollutants smell, we should probably ban those things

    Fracking is making the tap water smell, we should get rid of that as well

    Manure from landscaped golf courses absolutely stinks around here right now, it should be illegal to mulch golf courses which are just focus pits of odor…

29. And Kansas smells like cow shit but you know what they say, “Smells like money to me.”

30. I oppose diesel for the same reason

31. So funny, I’m old enough to remember cigarette smoking on airplanes, restaurants and Dr waiting rooms.

32. since recreational pot was legalized in MO, St Louis reeks of it. but it also reeks from the Mississippi, the AB Brewery, diesel exhaust, the storm sewers and the horrible perfume some gal was wearing on the bar patio last night. it could have gagged a maggot! so what’s a little pot thrown into the mix?

33. If you hate the smell of cannabis you’re going to abhor the smell of cigarettes and vomit induced by alcohol poisoning

34. By that logic Burger King should be illegal.

35. Ever smell a cigarette ?

36. This is Very true, Republicans will use any excuse to stop marijuana legalization. They don’t want it legalized on their watch. Yet planning department red- necks are all in for alcohol. 🍺
    But what happens when they ban it is the Chinese and Mexican mafias move into fill the void, thus no taxes are paid.

37. Tobacco smoke is much worse. But then again, Big Marijuana companies aren’t paying out “””gifts of appreciation””” considering.

38. Seriously that shit stinks. I agree with the no’s on this.