News » City Smoking Ban Does Not Apply to Marijuana
November 3, 2011 by justin
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Sebastopol, a small city north of San Francisco, isn’t know to be friendly towards cigarettes. In the past they have voted to prohibit smoking in work places, bars and restaurants, retail stores and in public areas such as parks.
In July they went a step further, requiring that landlords write no-smoking clauses into their contracts for new rental properties. All existing contracts will need to be modified within 14 months to include the ban.
This broad ban left medical marijuana users wondering where they stood, legally, to use marijuana in their homes.
The City Council resolved the issue this week with a unanimous vote to exclude medical marijuana from the definition of “smoking” in the legislation.
Other nearby locales such as Sonoma and Santa Rosa have implemented or are considering similar bans.
[source Press Democrat]
Tags: California, medical marijuana, Sebastopol, smoking ban
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Sebastopol CA! Beautiful town full of yuppies, green party members, and burnt out hippies.
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and analy tigers apparently, whatever those are.
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Analy is a high school. The tiger is their mascot.
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well yeah..
not my most planned out comment…. neither is this one
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I’m not sure but guessing by the name, I wouldn’t fuck with it.
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This is my hometown! They spelled it wrong in the article though. This isn’t surprising at all, though, we Sebastapudlians love our weed.
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I’m from Santa Rosa! Practically neighbors!
And yes, all of us around there love our buds. And damn is it gooood.
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I’m from Santa rosa too! Been searching for hometown ents for awhile!
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You had to search for ents in Santa Rosa?
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I’m sure ents are everywhere around here! I’m pretty new to reddit so other than my wife, I haven’t met another local smoker who has even heard of reddit.
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Well, hello! There’s more of us than you think. Though I recently moved to San Francisco, so I’m not really an SR ent anymore. Though it will always be my home town! :)
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I’m from Santa Rosa as well, I’d love to meet up and smoke you out :)
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Awesome! Anytime Alastriona!
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Whoa! Me too! Or, well…was. Moved to Sac 6 years ago, but frequent SR as my parents and friends are still there.
Always wondered if I’d ever “reddit bump” into someone around here.
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Everybody in this thread needs to join [r/santarosa](http://santarosa.reddit.com)
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Are you ok with them dictating the intricacies of a rental agreement?
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The cigarette smoking ban has gotten out of control. Dictating to private landlords what they may or may not allow on their own property? That’s as bad a the criminalization of trees. Although, it is impressive they are smart enough to know trees are still healthier than tobacco.
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>That’s as bad a the criminalization of trees.
Hardly. [Australia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans_in_Australia) has been implementing laws like this over the past couple of decades and I would expect similar laws to be in place for marijuana when it is legalised. Smoking rates have decreased consistently because of them, and having grown up with most of these rules in place they don’t seem like a big deal at all. Having to go outside for 5 minutes to smoke should be common courtesy, anyway.
I understand that people should be able to make their own decision about this kind of thing, but it makes it hard for restaurants or bars that have banned smoking to compete with those that haven’t.
Banning smoking in parks is fucked up, though.
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What about banning smoking on the street? It’s been done in NYC, and just like outlawing weed, its just another excuse for the cops to get up in your business.
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I think you should be able to smoke anywhere outside, but I still don’t think it’s comparable to pot prohibition.
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It’s absolutely disgusting. No private entity – apartment, restaurant, bar or otherwise – should be *forced* to ban smoking on their premises. If they want to ban it they can, and if they want to allow it, they should be allowed to.
Human beings are capable of choosing the smoking or the non-smoking bar for themselves; we’re not children. I’d be spear-heading a recall movement on the city’s mayor if I lived there, and *I don’t even smoke.*
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This is always the way I have thought about it too, especially when it comes to bars and clubs. Clubs smell much worse if there is no smoking in the venue.
The landperson (landlord/landlady) should always be the one making those decisions though, they own the place, it should be up to them.
In the UK the smoking ban laws are a bit retarded now, theres this odd rule that if somewhere has more than 2 walls and a ceiling, you can’t smoke in it.
Here’s an example of a bus stop you can smoke in:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46471000/jpg/_46471702_47_bus_stop.jpg
and one you most likely can’t:
http://img.ezinemark.com/imagemanager2/files/30003693/2010/11/2010-11-18-10-14-19-4-bus-stop-was-created-for-the-vitra-design-museum-i.jpeg
What also really annoys me is the no smoking signs in nearly every shop, work place and public transport vehicle. We know we can’t smoke in them, it’s been like that a fair few years now, quit it with the signs.
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analy tigers?
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Yes, wtf?
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all these weird laws are all to due to the fact that earth is overpopulated. So that means the dumb masses/dumbasses cant be trusted with fire
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or political office.
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sebtown represent!
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