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Great! Stay at home and smoke and stop smoking in public! The point is smokers should lose their rights if they are going to take away the rights of others. Do I (or other non-smokers) not have any right to sit in peace in a hotel room and not have the room fill up with pot smoke?
Where are you staying that hotel rooms fill up with smoke? I've literally never had that issue
The smell of weed smoke. Some portion of the smoke is also coming in the room. Every hotel that has a Heat/AC unit is essentially a hole in the wall which sucks in air from the outside. Marijuana smokers will smoke outside their rooms because they think they are outside without understanding how strong the smell is or that the Heat/AC units pull in air from the outside.
Not any more than you have a right to not have anyone else have a conversation near your hotel room.
Smells you personally dislike aren't something you get to ban anyone else from enjoying.
Come on! A conversation cannot be something you can compare to marijuana smoke. I have noise canceling headphones that I can put on if noises are too loud. I also have earplugs. What am I going to do when my whole hotel room smells like weed?
The point is consideration. The point is that non-smokers have rights too. The point is that smokers are quick to tell "Fuck you, if you don't like it because I have the legal right to smoke" while not even considering that someone else has a right to not smoke and breathe unpolluted air.
Farts are way worse than weed smoke. Can we work on the big issues first and tackle public farts?
It is the same. It's not your property. You don't get to dictate what other people do nearby.
Marijuana is just one of many smells you are very likely to be exposed to if you get a hotel room in a populated area, and it's far more pleasant to many than a lot of the alternatives.
You disliking a smell does not give you ownership of the whole surrounding area.
So you feel the same way about cigarettes?
I do feel the same way about cigarette smokers smoking right outside my hotel room but like I previously stated marijuana smoke is stronger, more pungent, lingers and travels longer. If someone is smoking a cigarette in a car next to you it's possible you catch the smell but there's chances that you don't versus if someone is smoking pot you are probably going to smell it.