Smoking Cannabis In Public

[Guest makapaka]

3 hours ago, Top Cats Hat said:

No.

You sure ?

[Top Cats Hat]

It is illegal to possess cannabis. It is illegal to sell cannabis. It is illegal to drive under the influence of cannabis.

 

It is not illegal to smoke it. 🙂

[Guest]

https://www.cannabisskunksense.co.uk/articles/press-article/the-drug-driving-law

[melthebell]

6 hours ago, Jason302 said:

https://www.cannabisskunksense.co.uk/articles/press-article/the-drug-driving-law

There's a massive difference between drug driving and what you tried to insinuate about a cloud of it in the street. Drug driving means you took the drug

[Cyclone]

7 hours ago, Jason302 said:

https://www.cannabisskunksense.co.uk/articles/press-article/the-drug-driving-law

Yes, we know the law on drug driving.

Are you seriously trying to claim that getting a second hand whiff of someone smoking is the equivalent of having smoked it yourself?

[Branyy]

10 minutes ago, Cyclone said:

Yes, we know the law on drug driving.

Are you seriously trying to claim that getting a second hand whiff of someone smoking is the equivalent of having smoked it yourself?

It surely depends on the amount of the drug taken second-handly (or is it "second-handedly?") 

[Top Cats Hat]

3 minutes ago, Branyy said:

It surely depends on the amount of the drug taken second-handly (or is it "second-handedly?") 

Not really.

 

If you can drive a car with someone sitting next to you smoking and not be affected, then driving past someone smoking on the pavement with your window down is definitely not going to affect you.

[Cyclone]

6 minutes ago, Branyy said:

It surely depends on the amount of the drug taken second-handly (or is it "second-handedly?") 

I don't know the concentrations and volumes involved in directly smoking cannabis (in terms of amount of smoke inhaled), but I suspect that it would take considerable time in an enclosed space with multiple smokers to even start to approach the same effects as smoking directly.

[Cyclone]

Google to the rescue

 

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana/what-are-effects-secondhand-exposure-to-marijuana-smoke

 

3 hours in a ventilated space with people casually smoking leaves you below the level of THC which would fail a drug driving test.

 

So walking past a single person in the street, almost certainly undetectable and biologically irrelevant levels of THC.

 

Contact highs have been reported if you sit in an unventilated space with multiple smokers for extended lengths of time.

Edited July 18, 2019 by Cyclone

[Top Cats Hat]

Just last week, one of these Police Camera Action programmes had four lads stopped in a car stinking of skunk. There was a dispute about who was driving so all four were drug tested. One (the passenger as it turned out) failed massively. The other two barely registered and the fourth came up completely clean.

 

Not scientific I know, but it does give an indication of how little THC remains in the smoke once it has been exhaled by the smoker.