Unpopular Opinion
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1. NO POLITICS
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And a blanket ban of smoking outdoors, like OP suggests, would still not be a reasonable response.
Although I don't smoke cigarettes, I do vape weed in public when walking my dog in the forest. That hurts absolutely no one other than me. Just ban smoking near others ( which is exactly how it works for weed in my country, and should be how it works for cigarettes as well )
I don't see how me being forced to vape in my apartment and make my entire apartment and all my clothes smell like weed would help anyone
I agree. An all out public ban is not practical
As long as you don’t litter your empty vapes. One of the many problems with cigarettes is the litter. Filters by the millions that never biodegrade
Thats not how vaping weed works. In a dry herb vape you use grinded weed that then gets heated up inside a small oven so the THC evaporates, but most of the other plant matter remains. In the end you are left with some roasted weed which no longer contains THC, and that you can throw in the trash, or simply on the ground since it's plant matter that biodegrades.
The vape itself is expensive af (350€ in my case) and reusable infinitely, especially since mine has a replaceable 21700 battery, so you wouldn't just throw it away.
Disposable vapes containing liquid THC concentrate do exist, but to the best of my knowledge only in Canada and the US. In my country they are illegal to produce, import or sell. (but not illegal to own or use 🤷)
Edit: it's also a lot less smelly than smoking weed. If I'm using it in public you wouldn't be able to even notice it from 10 meters away
Nice. Wish the disposables were illegal here as well.