Comment by toast0
19 hours ago
I don't think it's unreasonable to desire to be free from the noxious odors of others.
> The right to waft my smells in any direction ends where your nose begins.
- Abraham Lincoln or Ben Franklin or Mark Twain or someone
It's not just because marijuana "smells bad". Secondhand marijuana smoke contains many of the same toxic chemicals as secondhand cigarette smoke and likely is similarly deleterious to your health [1]. I also believe everyone should have the right to be able to open their windows and have clean air come through. Smoking on balconies denies people this right. Edibles only effect the user and therefore should be permitted.
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/cannabis/health-effects/secondhand-smoke...
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It doesn't have to be criminally illegal. Instead it could simply be civil. The apartment complex, which you do not own, would be the ones setting the rules here.
And you, of your own free choice, would have the choice to either follow the rules or go live somewhere else. The person you are responding to doesn't have an issue with you smoking in your own purchased home. Instead this was about apartment complexes.
And it wouldn't even have to be a law applied to you. It could be applied to the apartment complex. Apartment complexes already have to follow lots of laws. So they could simply be required to have this as a rule.
And then you, could make your libertarian choice to live there or not. Its not your apartment complex after all. And since its someone else property, they would absolutely have the free to make you not do this in their own property.
If the apartment owner wants to set his own rules that's fine. It is completely in accord with the principles of free association that a landlord can decide who he wants in his building. When it's forced by government decree to be one way or the other however then it becomes tyranny.
Why shouldn't there be an apartment block that is nothing but weed smokers, and others that are cigarette smokers, some that are both, and some that are neither, in accordance with each tenant and landlord's personal desires? That's what freedom looks like.
If laws were made for instance that a landlord couldn't change from one status to the other (smoking<>non-smoking or vice versa) without a significant notice period, to give people time to move if needed, that would be completely fair.
Strongarming people into a one size fits all mold isn't freedom, regardless of what wishy washy reasoning is given to justify it.
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