[lojack]

I think whats interesting is that you'll find a lot of MJ users who have been conditioned to thinking the smell is pleasant. Makes sense if you think about it -- every time they're around that odor, their dopamine receptors are firing.

To the MJ users out there, take this as constructive criticism. Not everyone finds the smell appealing. Just like not everyone finds the smell of cigarettes appealing. Find a place to smoke away from entrances of buildings and other places nonsmokers are unable to avoid, and freshen up after partaking.

Businesses like the movie theater should create designated areas for smokers. As far as the smell that sticks with the person, that's something much more difficult to police, it isn't a crime to smell bad.

[owebmaster]

I don't like the smell of Cheetos (which is legal), but I don't fight with people that eats it on a bus/airplane (although it makes me angry).

What I mean is that we should get in an agreement good for everyone, not the common patronizing discourse of non-smokers been right, smokers wrong.

[lojack]

Its a courtesy thing, not a right vs wrong thing. If its a common complaint that my Cheetos smell bad, I'm going to avoid eating them in confined spaces or only around other people eating Cheetos. I'm also not going to go around telling everyone their Cheetos smell bad, but if someone constructively tells me that everyone hates the smell of my Cheetos, I'm going to acknowledge their complaint and be mindful of it when eating Cheetos moving forward.

[owebmaster]

Exactly! And lot of people think this way about marijuana, too. And a lot more don't think this same way in both situations. How to fix it?

[geff82]

The smell of Cheetos will never have influence on your health. Smoke does.

[owebmaster]

The smell of marijuana will never have influence on your health. Eat cheetos does.

[Cerium]

Eating Cheetos influences your health, and being around smoke influences your health. I don't think smelling Cheetos on your breath, or smelling smoke in someone's clothes does.

[metaphorm]

your language use is problematic, in my opinion. "conditioned to thinking..." implies that you have some objective, irrefutable notion of the truth and that people that disagree with you are delusional due to psychological conditioning.

this is just subjective stuff. I like the smell and taste of limburger cheese and durian fruit. other people tell me it makes them want to gag and vomit. some people like the way Beyonce's music sounds. It makes me want to leave the room. it's subjective. you don't need to make a bogus argument about dopamine receptors to notice that.

[lojack]

You can argue the specifics of my language all you want, I'm merely noticing a phenomenon and stating an explanation that makes sense to me.