Philo B 93 said:
People should get used to the smell, because for the next decade or so, the smell of pot will be what the smell of tobacco cigarettes used to be in the 60s - 90s. We Olds remember walking out of office buildings (or sometimes into offices), or into bars or restaurants, on onto planes, or grocery stores, or friends houses and being whacked in the face with nasty cigarette smoke. It was so common that we though nothing of it. Pot won't be that common, but we'll smell a lot of it at recreational events and places. Gummies and vapes may help dial it down a little.
It irritates me greatly when I smell some a-hole toking near me at a concert....
.... and he's not sharing.
I am close to your age and remember quite well how that musty tobacco smoke smell permeated everything. My dada was a long time smoker, the only smoker in the family. I would go home on the weekends from college. Of course, I took laundry home, and my sweet mother would wash it. When I got back to college station, I would open my luggage, and my fresh laundered clothes still smelled like cigarettes because of my dad's smoking. I remember every office building smelled like an ashtray because so many people had smoked in them for the previous 30 years. I had gotten used to the smell of the smoke, and it didn't really kick in how nasty it was until indoor smoking bans started becoming popular. Austin where I lived at the time was an early adopter of indoor smoking bans in restaurants. I got sent to Georgia for a year for a project where there was no ban. When I walked into a restaurant and smelled the smoke before I sat down I became a believer in smoking bans. Nasty habit.
People that smoke a lot of weed probably don't realize that ashy smell follows them around too. Or maybe they don't care.
