Comment by Der_Einzige
2 years ago
Gosh I am so happy to have like the best senator in the senate next to Bernie Sanders in Oregon.
Oregon is an extremely based state. Y'all crap on PDX but the reality is that we have more freedom and less tyranny here than in any other state in the nation, and possibly in the world. PDX is "bad" because it's one of the only places in the world that hated the cops enough to actually muzzle them - and not living in fear of the boot is worth needing to deal with homeless people.
Want to smoke weed? Check (lowest prices in the world). Want to do psychedelics? (functionally legalized) Check. Want to shoot guns? (relatively lax gun laws for a blue state) Check. Want to not be spied on? As check as Ron Wyden can make it!
> Want to shoot guns? (relatively lax gun laws for a blue state)
Your DA is determined to destroy this right by spending tax dollars appealing 114 until they find a judge who agrees with them.
Yeah it sucks, but I care the least about it tbh.
It's been my experience that you'll probably start caring after it's too late.
> Want to smoke weed?
The tyranny of the masses is still a tyranny. I'd personally like to move to a state where all smoking, but at least weed smoking, is illegal. I really don't like second hand smoke, especially when it smells and hangs as much as weed smoke does.
It's already not legal to smoke in public for weed and in most places for cigarettes. Frankly I don't think outright prohibition addresses that any better than the existing system. Nor do I see how having bodily autonomy is necessarily a tyranny of the masses.
In all seriousness, Utah sounds like your ideal so long as you stay outside of Salt Lake City. I'm glad to no longer be a resident
> Nor do I see how having bodily autonomy is necessarily a tyranny of the masses.
When it intrudes upon the bodily autonomy of others (e.g. second hand smoke, which I am constantly facing and suffering from in the Bay Area).
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> Utah sounds like your ideal
Not enough trees. Nor enough employment in my non-remoteable field.
Public smoking is a concern, but the smoke will leak even if smoked inside of a home. With edibles and inhalers I don't understand why people thought it was a good idea to legalize marijuana smoking.
> Nor do I see how having bodily autonomy is necessarily a tyranny of the masses.
Generalizing the principle of the swinging your fists near someone else's nose saying.
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This comment is rather obtuse.
You want to live in a state where all smoking is illegal?
Because you don’t like the smell of weed smoke?
How interesting.
> Because you don’t like the smell of weed smoke?
No, not because I "don't like" it, but because the smell of weed smoke causes quality of life and health issues.
> Want to smoke weed? Check (lowest prices in the world)
One of the biggest reasons I'm happy I moved away from my home in Oregon. The second-hand weed smoke is gross.