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Kids Are Saying "Don't Blow That Smoke In My Face!"

Have you ever walked down an urban, public area or sidewalk only to get a puff of some kind of strange smelling smoke blown in your face?  I have. After relocating to a more urban-populated neighborhood, a few years ago, I realized that such smoking behavior was the norm--an everyday situation within my local community. It is a normal disregard by individuals who smoke modern-day what?--Weed.  Every day this is happening in unique homestyles, city playgrounds, and public sidewalks.

There is a new trend, that is happening, where parents are deliberately intoxicating their children with marijuana. A few weeks ago, I read an article about a mother of color who was arrested for exhaling such smoke in front of her children. I have learned that second-hand weed smoke can exhibit someone to have the same effects as being truly high; it's called having a "contact."  The overall goal of the smoker is to dumb down the activity of children so that they will become less active or hyper around them. Thereby allowing the smoker to enjoy their high sensation for a greater length of time.

I believe that consistent smokers may not even realize the harm of their smoking habit. Smokers--if you are reading this blog entry--don't smoke near children. Ask them to leave out the environment so that you can get your smoke on if necessary.  Readers, we must educate our youth to exit out of the room if they begin to smell a strange-smelling cigarette. I am a non-smoker who believes that weed smoking should not be allowed so freely.  Even non-smoking apartment tenants, who smell weed smoke in their vents, etc., are reporting neighbors consistently who smoke in their dwellings.

When is enough enough?  Should we arrest smokers for smoking in their own homestyles? I agree with the idea of marijuana smokers being arrested for smoking near a minor. Kids are students.

Students attend school to learn.  Learning must be achieved to have a productive, educated, community and society.