November 19, 2008
PG County Underestimates the Creativity of Teens Who Want to Smoke Pot
The Washington Post went to the trouble of putting up an online poll of its readers this morning over whether they agree with a recent Prince George's County decision to ban the sale of single cigars. The County, you see, has decided to outlaw single cigar sales because teens are buying them in order to use the cigar paper to roll big-ass blunts. Blunts, spliffs, fatties and other jumbo-sized marijuana joints may be big in pop culture, but the notion that making it slightly more difficult to roll them (you can still buy 5-packs of the same cigars) will reduce the ability of anyone to get high is beyond laughable. What will PG County ban next? Apples? Empty soda cans? Light bulbs?
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Are they banning the sale of wraps too? (Phillies papers, etc. sold in flavors like peach and grape - because cigar connoisseurs love a little fake flavoring!)
Those PGC kids must have a lot of extra cash (or hash) to be rolling fatty blunts all day.
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so dumb... don't teens have to be 18 anyways to buy the cigars? what a complete waste of time.
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Just another way kids today are lazy. They wouldn't know one end of a Bambu from the other.
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Just another example of banning or restricting something perfectly legal because it might be possibly used for something legal.
Should baseball be banned because a bat might be used as a weapon?
Idiots.
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besides, everyone knows that using a honey bear is much more efficient....and cool
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What a clan of morons. Do they really think this is going to work? I mean....REALLY?!
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I think they should outlaw the sale of Phillies for any purpose other than rolling blunts. If there's anyone out there smoking those things legit, that constitutes posing a danger to oneself or the community.
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I sure do miss those bong hit days ...
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What's actually laughable is that the blogger and those commenting think doing NOTHING is a better solution.
Do I think it's a good law? No. But simply because I don't think the gov't should have role in determining what businesses can and can't sell and in what quantities. But at least the law has good intentions and isn't aimed at simply generating more revenue as are most laws passed today.
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Kids these days are stupid. What are they doing mixing tobacco with their cannabis? Don't they realize that tobacco use leads to physical dependency (and causes cancer)?
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i should add, as an addendum, that i clearly don't know what i'm talking about, and this is only what i've heard
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The Aristocrats!
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Steve, When it comes to criminalizing the sale of something, to no positive effect, vs. doing nothing. I think doing nothing comes out looking better. Can you disagree? Or are you for willy nilly criminilizing stuff until something works out? Your "criminalizing things, even if we know it has no positive effect, is better than doing nothing" comment scares the hell out of me.
Why restrict that one person who really just wants one legal tobacco smoke after a bad day, or after legally getting smashed on jagermeister up the street, and does not want a whole pack of crap cigars lying around the house- I am sure there is one legit user, out of the 50,000 who just pack em with weed.
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MrSteve, what do you think the government should do to decrease pot usage by teens?
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@MrSteve:
Enacting bad laws with good intentions is far, far worse than doing nothing.
Except for the Patriot Act, and all that wireless surveillance stuff - that was aces, Mr. Cheney. Really, well done to you and all your friends at NSA who are taking the time to read this post.
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I think lighters should be banned.
tick tock tick tock
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If U take away the teens weed wrapping stuff then only the terrorists teens will win. This will only lead them to harder stuff...like...like that hanging game. Where they cut off each others air supply until they pass out. So if that catches on..
what are they going to do? Stop selling ropes? Huh!?
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But if you ban lighters, only the criminals will have lighters.
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How about a law banning the crappy schwag weed they sell in this town but selectively legalizing Humboldt hydroponic?
Now THAT would benefit the community.
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How about a law banning the crappy schwag weed they sell in this town but selectively legalizing Humboldt hydroponic?
I hear this complaint all the time, but on the extremely rare occasion that I actually see weed in DC it's always the stinky, sticky, chronic. Who are all these goobers with the schwag?
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I feel sorry for these teens. Back in the day we had honest t'God rolling papers...head shops...hippies....free love....STD's.....Earthworks. Big bongs everywhere.
Bongs in every shape and size. Freaky hippy chicks.
Affordable music festival where we passed the doochie and everybody took a hit. The Cap Center.
The Doobie Brothers. Free radio that didn't suck.
The Fabulous Freak Brothers. The Booeymonger.
The Unicorn Times. Hey man, I'm freaking out.
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Why buy a $1.39 single Philly when you can get a 5 pack of White Owls for a mere $2.09. It really comes down to basic economics, and I am glad this law will teach kids to really think about their purchases in relation to their budgets.
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That's it. Let's ban 7-11's. Seriously, those stores have been the definitive source of teen-pot-smoking paraphernalia. I have had it with 7-11 getting in the way of the War on Drugs. Shit, I think we should ban the color green. We don't want those teens making ANY association with marijuana.
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Also, the light bulb trick was a new one that I had never seen before.
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Ew, light bulbs.
Anyhow, good for them. Blunts are wasteful, always use glass and quality herb, or a nice vaporizer.
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right on ChickenArise.
use bongs. save the environment. nuff said.
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That light bulb one..I don't know about man. Exploding glass. What was that strange coating they were eliminating?
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You're all going to hell.
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Ugh, they better be talking about in, like, gas stations and supermarkets, because no teen is going to a proper cigar shop and buying a $5 cigar to wrap their weed in. Even if they could somehow buy cigars under 18.
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I remember being a teen once. I got over it.
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I like reading threads like these because it makes me realize how liberal DC residents really are.
In closing, YAY MARIJUANA
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Is there weed in Hell?
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@Deep: Yup. Weed and virgins, I hear.
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we all know pages from the bible makes for the best rolling paper...
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we all know pages from the bible makes for the best rolling paper...
don't forget the Qur'an
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don't forget the Qur'an
Don't sleep on the Torah, it comes pre-rolled.
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Is there weed in Hell?
In Hell there's nothing but weed. And everybody involved in the bureaucracy is high all the time and drives way under the speed limit. You can't get anything done. They're lying around on couches watching cartoons and eating Cool Ranch Doritos and nobody cleans the toilet. The fridges are empty except for condiments, the milk is spoiled, there's no clean underwear. But there are stacks and stacks of empty pizza boxes everywhere and you will never find that check for $75 your mom sent. The place stinks, nobody vacuums, the floor is covered with broken glass bongs and you can only find one shoe.
But there's always plenty of weed, so we're cool, right?
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So..if there's weed in Hell....what about Heaven.
I once heard that in Heaven there is no beer. That my friend would be sad.
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Try as I might, I can't think of one hellish thing about pot.
Oh, and here's a news flash for PG County: You will NEVER stop kids (or anyone else who wants to) from smoking pot. But keep banging your heads against walls --- the pot smokers find it most amusing.
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Try as I might, I can't think of one hellish thing about pot.
That would be the short-term memory loss talking. Go back to your bong, hippie.
In Heaven, Everything Is Fine. You've Got Your Good Things, And I've Got Mine.
Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
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"Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens."
sound like hell
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sound like hell
Nope. That's just David Byrne.
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david byrne....
way too easy. sure you're not smoking pot right now?
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No, but I do have a pipe shaped like Darth Vader through which I smoke harmless tobacco.
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All joking aside folks. The best thing is that we're all alive and all this beer and weed is right here on Earth with us. So why are we having wars and sh*t? With all the micro-breweries and hemp farmers, this can be a wonderful world. Mr. Obama, I hope you're reading this and to the DEA guys...don't be knocking down my friggin door cause I'm not holding. I get high on life, good beer and whiskey.
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The problem with PG banning the sale of single cigars is that it runs completely counter to their "Smoke Blunts, Not Brothas" campaign.
I predict a comparable rise in youth violence. Won't someone think of the children?
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The children are smoking. Smoke the children.
The children smoke. Children the smoke.
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wha?
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The kids are alright.