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I argue online a lot, and when stating why I disagree with recreational weed smoking, the flight meltdowns that have caused me close calls with cars, and made leaving my house difficult and scary,

They act like I'm being over dramatic, I'm just stating exactly what happens,
And commonly deny it is possible for a "Calming" drug to do that to someone.

I actually support medical weed, but less and less as my disability and issues with it get considered arbitrary or over reactions.

Why do people that claim to want to help people do this?

All weed has some medical properties. There is no difference between recreational weed and medical weed, weed is weed.

As for your experiences, well if that is how you felt then that's how you felt. You likely used a high THC strain and felt anxious and stimulated which is quite common. Weed has a biphasic response curve. Low doses of high THC weed can calm you, higher doses can have the opposite effect and high CBD/low THC weed is entirely different and is impossible to make you anxious. What makes a dose high or low depends on each person's individual tolerance levels. Weed isn't a single molecule, if you tried one strain at one particular dose that doesn't mean that you have tried all weed.

As for your claim that weed made your sister schizoaffective, that is nonsense. Weed does not cause schizophrenic disorders. For example the number of people using weed in the UK has increased 40 times since the 60's yet the number of people diagnosed with schizophrenia remained flat. If weed caused schizophrenia then you would expect as the number of people who use weed increases so would the number of people being diagnosed with schizophrenia but that isn't the case. The schizophrenia myth is just another prohibitionist lie.

When *other people* smoke it near me. Not a matter of a strain, a matter of sensory processing disorder.

Must be hard in legal states to escape the weed haze.
It's unfortunate people are so inconsiderate, I wouldn't even smoke a cigarette near anyone, but walk out into empty space where I'm not killing anyone with my secondhand smoke.
And I would never toss a butt on the ground, that kind of thing makes me see red.

Not to mention the stuff stinks! It makes everything smell like one giant cat litter box.

Well you made no mention of that in your original post. If it is a sensory processing disorder then there is nothing you can do but try and avoid it. People need to be considerate of smoking around others obviously.

I find that smoking weed helps mellow me out and really its very helpful. I mean even if I am angry and might otherwise do something dumb I think about 'well I could also just go home and smoke, and not cause a problem." But even so it is not for everyone, not everyone has a good reaction to it. I mean if you don't get anything out of marijuana than you should not use it. I find it helps some with my anxiety and I like the feeling of being high on it...but its not the same way for everyone.

I don't like the smell of weed, so I don't smoke it.

So just don't be near other people while they're smoking...

Just because you don't have good experiences with weed, that doesn't detract from the 10s of millions of people who do, and it would be extremely self-centred to think something that is voluntarily taken and generally not harming anyone should be banned because you don't like it. You can argue that people should be restricted on where they can smoke it so as not to affect others around them, but it would be idiotic to argue that people should just throw their weed away to appease you. Newsflash:you're not the centre of the universe

I wish it was that easy for us not to have to smell it. Someone in the apartment next to us smokes it & the smell of smoke & weed goes into ours. Smoking inside & rite outside the apartments are against the rules but noone including property management gives a sh!t.

To avoid it and ever leave my house is nearly impossible. It. Is. Everywhere. And a risk I have to take whenever I leave my house.

Yeah well I wouldn't agree with allowing people to smoke anywhere and everywhere. I think if people are going to smoke in public there should be designated areas that are avoidable for people who don't want to expose themselves to it. I certainly don't think it should be banned outright though.

Everyone reacts to drugs differently , some people can take prescription medication without side effects , others have bad side effects and cannot take it.

Cannabis should not be used by people who have adverse side effects , it can lead to mental health problems. As Noca said it's not going to give you schizophrenia , your genes dictate this , but if schizophrenia is on the cards for you weed can bring it to the surface sooner than was destined.

Again, this isn't me taking the weed it's other people smoking it around me. A SPD related issue.

Who smokes it around you, and do they know it causes an issue for you? I mean there are certainly inconsiderate people but most people I know who smoke weed will avoid smoking around people that can't handle the smoke, if they are aware.

Also though if this is a health thing for you, then you also have to put some effort into not putting yourself in situations where there is a lot of weed smoking. That shouldn't mean having to stay home all the time, I mean I cannot think of any place in colorado that has a constant weed smoke haze at least not that I've been to.

It is true if you live in a legal state you will smell it but I have to smell peoples mcdonalds, very strong perfumes/body sprays, diesel exhaust and all kind of smells people make that bother me. I cannot demand all those things go away I just have to deal with it. I think people who smoke cannabis should mind the smoke especially in public settings and such...but the smell itself might have to be something people learn to tolerate, like I tolerate those horrid smelling fruity body sprays.

My bad. I misunderstood