The Runback: It Stinks
Hey, remember when 67.2& of Maryland voted to add an article to the Maryland State Constitution legalizing the use of weed by anybody over the age of 21? Whoops
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The Monday Thought
Hey, remember when 67.2& of Maryland voted to add an article to the Maryland State Constitution legalizing the use of weed by anybody over the age of 21?
Here we are, a year or so later, and you can’t go anywhere in the state without the godawful smell of marijuana. EVERYWHERE.
Go to the Christmas Market in downtown Baltimore? The smell of weed is there.
Drive to the Baltimore Zoo? Have to close the windows because the car in front of you is hotboxing and the smell of weed is drifting into your vents.
Go to the Maryland Science Center? A parent there with their child reeks of previously smoked weed.
Stay in a hotel? Get an asthma attack because somebody decided to spend their entire night smoking weed in the room next door.
Last year I wrote about all of the reasons why voters should vote against the legalization of marijuana. As usual on these kinds of issues where Maryland is running headlong into a Democratic-created hell, I was right about everything I said. But I want to draw attention to this line:
But there is no justifiable reason for legalizing marijuana. While I understand and respect the libertarian view of this, the ends do not justify the means. Maryland is continuing to rapidly barrel down an unknown highway of legalizing a drug while trying to brush aside legitimate concerns about the health, societal, or environmental impacts of legalization.
While some would like to use the “victimless crime!” card, how can the ever-present odor of weed be victimless when those of us who just want to be left alone have to smell the shit everywhere we go?
A year after the adoption of the amendment, too many places in Maryland smell like rotting skunk corpses because too many Democrats in the General Assembly didn’t have the balls to tell their base no and because voters were lied to about the “victimless crime” charade.1 As always, all of Maryland is now suffering because of it.
Dan Cox depressing Republican turnout didn’t help either.