Open Thread Wednesday 5/25/11

I guess only people rich enough to afford a whole building are allowed to smoke anything, legal or not, in their own home anymore. Pretty soon people will be turning in their neighbors for frying food, because you know, it’s dangerous and smelly and bad for you.

@harumph

If only real life were only as simple as your comment.

Is smoke actually billowing out of these “offending” apartments, or is it a whiff of ODOR you are smelling? I strongly suspect the latter.

Corporations are basically destroying our nation & the world, yet you brag that your co-op (a corporation & corporate board) has a smoking ban–micromanaging & restricting other people’s lives!

Furthermore, were people told they could not smoke BEFORE they moved into their apartments, or do they now have break their CIGARETTE addiction or face losing their home?

What’s next, should we ban people from cooking pungent foods in their kitchens, or from expelling flatulence, for fear someone like you may be offended?

@Willowtown Cop–A warrant is no longer needed for the smell of marijuana coming from an apartment, as per last weeks US Supreme Court decision in Kentucky v King. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-1272.pdf. Warrantless searches are now permitted.

With the landlord, there is a also a breach of the implied warranty of habitability for the smoke condition.

Sixpoint cans are at the Montague Skeeve Food.

$9.99 (4 x 16oz)

Willowtown, I just downloaded the court decision. You’re not going to believe this, but Kentucky’s protections were too strict, according to the U.S. Supreme Court. The officers, who were trying to catch a dealer, were justified (see Alito’s first paragraph) in entering without a warrant on the basis of the pot smell plus the suspicion that the occupants were trying to destroy evidence before letting the officers in.

@need help,

Fret no more. The “authorities” were monitoring this blog (as they do all blogs), and a SWAT team has been dispatched to the premises. They will eagerly throttle the diabolical dope fiend to within an inch of his life, & then he’ll be incarcerated for 20 years at hard labor. Problem solved.

@ Jeffrey j Smith,

Sir, surely you jest?

T.K., I agree, the situations are different, and ideally the residents will work this out. Perhaps if everyone chipped in and bought the fellow a modern vaporizing device? I have seen one in action that is virtually odorless, and seems satisfactory in delivering the active ingredient.

Addendum: See post #101.

http://forum.grasscity.com/stash-jar/506936-majicbunnies-marijuana-reviews-**many-strains-updated-often**-7.html

We have four “classic cars” in our family. #(^ with TRIPLE CARBS?
Hey I WANT my fathers Oldsmobile 98 I’m going down to see those
cars…

By the way,car fans, this is the LAST weekend to see the INDY CARS in Macy’s its a great quick car show for everyone.

Now to business…everything I wrote on drugs in buildings is based on our experiences in the 70’s and early 80’s In wonder-
ful Koch and Dinkins era New York. It started with “recreational
users” in buildings then we had “occasional dealers” then we
had kids from the two key schools going down to Bergen Street
to buy drugs, then the well, an important club on Montague,
decided they didn’t want thier kids going down to dangerious
Bergen St so they allowed what functioned as a drug concess-
ion every night at the 2nd Appelate Court on Monroe. We had
guys dealing out of cars with New Jersey plates..The scene got wilder and wilder, the kids started overdosing on the street
I found two kids, one fighting for her life, overdoesd left by their
“friends” all kids from the two schools. I brought each of them in my car to the an emergency room on my own. We stopped the
dealing out of cars, so the dealers began dealing out of a number of apartments in the area one on Pierrepont…

The scene was a NIGHTMARE.

Then we had a wave of violent crime fueled by the darlings in the
farragut projects and red hook kids…when we took strong action
against that..the perps began charging racism…

There was a CRIME DISPATCHER located in the projects who would listen to a scanner and when he heard the cops on the way to a crime scene he knew his guys were still at he would warn them over CB Radio…

Well, one by one we shut it ALLl down..we cleaned them all out.
It took hard work, persistance, innovation and good old American
Courage.

The drug dealers at one point sent a lot of threats…we reminded them just how well WE were armed…

WE called the police many times every night. We issued to our members some of the first (HUGE) cell phones. We then brought the DEA into the situation via a congressman I know in Maryland. WE made SURE to video as much as we could. You’d be surpris
ed how quiet police brass and the DA’s offices get when they know videos are involved.

So EVERYTHING you are mentioning and ALL the false arguments
which have been presented here have ALL happened before
(But I DO know where or when…here)

People DO NOT have the right to use ANY illegal drugs anywhere.
And You CAN shut down the action…we did it (with a certain
area association resisting and the Height press attacking us at every turn) Sure, a considerable number of Heights kids from
“leading families” now have arrest records. Too bad. But we made it impossible for significant drug activity to go on. You can Imagine
the “conversations” I had with Bosworth….

Forget what ANYONE here says..you DONT have to live with
any detectable drug use in your living space.

There IS a major danger here that many one world types will try to use this issue to further limit and micromanage your and everyone’
elses lives…

they need to be defeated as well…they are the mirror image of what the drug dealers represent. One is imporper license
the other is tyranny. As Americans we need to repell them BOTH.

If you need ANY assistance in this matter please contact us…

JeffreyJSmith.NewYork@usa.com