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There are too many security cameras downtown everywhere and it really makes it hard to smoke pot at ease.
I had to smoke hidden by a church and I am now worried that God hates me. He has pretty high standards you know. Let me smoke in peace! —stpaul
This article appears in Sep 2-8, 2010.
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That’s a shame.
you should move to Vancouver; i kid you not yea can’t go anywhere without smelling dope
Someone’s being paranoid… When I used to smoke pot I found you could walk down any street at night and not be bothered for smoking a joint. If there isn’t a police car with cops staring at you 10 feet away, guess what? You can get away with smoking a joint!
I smoke it walking down a street. Ain’t no thang.
You needs a cess spot.
NO O.P., I DO NOT HATE YOU. JUST A LITTLE PISSED THAT YOU WOULD NOT SHARE THY WEED WITH ME, YOUR ALMIGHTY ONE. A CIURSE OF PESTILENCE WILL STRIKE YOU AT NOON SUNDAY, GO TO A CHURCH AND BEG MY FORGIVENESS, NOW.
Just fire ‘er up and puff away. A giant mechanical arm is not going to reach out of the camera, place you on a catapult and deliver you to the Burnside jail. Relax, kid, you’re letting your paranoia get the best of you.
How about this, smoke at home! Despite some popular opinion on here, it’s still illegal
You’re either ‘avin a larf or determined to prove that prolonged cannabis usage is detrimental to basic human intelligence. As has been pointed out, it is still an illegal activity, like bestiality, suicide bombs or ‘avin a wank outside a catholic girl’s school so save it for your own domicile. Believe it or not , not everybody enjoys the scorched armpit aroma or is salivating in anticipation of you passing de duchy pon de lef hand side. Some of us prefer alcohol.
I don’t get why security cameras would be a deterent? They can’t exactly smell you from a camera so you just look like you’re smoking. Also, as long as you’re curteous to people around you (i.e. don’t blow your smoke at people), who cares.
But yeah, smoking at home is the best idea… my new balcony is great for that 🙂
OP you must be Catholic. So much guilt.
GOD DID see you, but not to worry. HE isn’t the one that made cannabis illegal. HE doesn’t care one way or the other. Neither do the 53% of Canadians who in a recent Angus Reid poll thought pot should be legal.
But as with smoking ‘regular’ cigarettes and for the same reasons, you should smoke pot in the privacy of your own home so that innocent third parties don’t inhale your second-hand pot smoke and get lung cancer or get high or get ‘reefer madness’ or get arrested or something.
Here’s a legal question: If you are smoking pot and blowing the smoke in my face while I’m standing in a bar having a Guinness, would I get arrested for smoking second-hand pot or would you get arrested for smoking in a bar?
OP god created plants.
Man created things from plants like alcohol & cocaine.
Smoking pot is just the dried flowers of a pot plant.
The F.S.M (aka God)doesn’t mind you puffing on some dried flowers…
PS- stay away from churches they’re the devils invention to more easily control people. Don’t get sucked in
It is still an illegal drug, so I wouldn’t recommend smoking it in public….you just never know….undercover cops like to walk Spring Garden, downtown, the Public Gardens, etc…looking to catch people. Just so you know.
dude…..
god has like the ‘highest’ standards.
he saves the best shit for himself …
if you’re that paranoid, you need a one-shot-wonder, covert type pipes…
holds just enough and only takes seconds from start to finish.
or so I’ve heard
“Here’s a legal question: If you are smoking pot and blowing the smoke in my face while I’m standing in a bar having a Guinness, would I get arrested for smoking second-hand pot or would you get arrested for smoking in a bar?”
I swear I’d rather be caught with automatic weapons and a trunk full explosives than some weed, some people act like it’s the devil’s drug.
Since its illegal chosing to smoke it in public you’re actively taking the risk of being caught. Perhaps consider doing it in the privacy of your own home.
go walk off a pier you fucking hippy. Cant you see what that shit is doing to your mind? You are allready a fucking waste of flesh just end it allready.
You can’t be serious.
martym – Amen. I did my bachelors at UBC, on 4.20 you could smell the pot smoke downtown from across False Creek
Smoke it like a cigarette and the cameras won’t know the difference.. I’d be more concerned about the pungent smell.
I’m headed to PurpleFire’s to have a session on the balcony.
Are you wearing a t-shirt with your name and address on it? If not blaze away, these cameras are not being monitered 24-7, they are only reviewed if their is a crime reported in the area. Big brither has laws they have to follow for now, if Harper has his way random searches and manditory minimums for posession will be the norm. But not yet, and hopefully not on my watch… beware of the devil in a sweater vest.
It’s funny how the OB thinks God would only be angry if he toked on church grounds but not anywhere else.
lol NGF… come on over!!
I never had a problem finding a good spot where no one else could be bothered…either save it for home, or try a little harder to find your toke-spot. I’d rather the cameras be able to catch violent crimes, and I imagine the HPD feels the same way.
I’ll bring chocolate milk for PF and Coke Zero for me =D
geez p.f., what about the old suckster, gonna leave him out in the cold. and to think, i just, i just harvested my farm, oh well.