The Issue: Complaints of the smell of marijuana smoke through the city since the drug was made legal.
The smell of marijuana makes me sick, whether I’m in or around a crowd of people or even smelling it emitting from a vehicle drivin🔴g by me (“Reeker madness,” Sept. 1).
If I’m on public transportat♓ion, the smell of someone walking by me who just smoked marijuana repulses me.
If you are not allowed to have an open container of alcohol, why would you be allowed to༒ smoke a mind-altering drug in public?
Regardless of what advocates for m🐲arijuana say concerning pot smoking, it does embolden people, as does alcohol, and people tend to do more inappropriate thinꦑgs when high.
Brandon Harris
Rochester
Marijuana destroys hum𝄹an lungs. People already have a hard enough time breathing due to p🤡ollution and COVID.
The effort to legalize marijuana is an absoꦫlute cop-out to make more money. It is not a sincere effort to confront the issues of marijuana misuse and substance abuse across America.
Marijuana is extre▨mely addictive, and it literally destroys both mental and physical health.
Arthur Mackey
Roosevelt
Cigarette ♒smoke was banned as a health hazard 🉐in indoor facilities. The smell of cigarette smoke has been replaced by the smell of marijuana smoke in New York City.
So now I have to be subjected to somebody els꧋e’s nasty habit.
I think if someone wants to smoke pot in the sanctity of their home, so be it. But in public, you are encroaching on my rights to be drug free🦄 and live in 🎶a safe environment.
Yet💟 now everybody can do whatever they want to do, and there are no consequences for it. This pot-smell epidemic is reflective of how we have lost control of our so🍰ciety.
Mindy Rader
New City
How far we have fallen.
Once upon a time people were told to “stop and smell the flowers.” Now they are forced to sniꦏff the weed.
Sallyanne Ferrero
Naples, Fla.
The Issue: A physician saying Sen. Mitch McConnell was clear to work after he froze while speaking.
Any health-care professional, and many who have a very senior fam⛄ily member, can recognize a “period of lack of oxygen perfusion” to the brain (“Doc ‘freeze up’ Mitch,” Sept. 1).
These episodes can be due to a variety of reasons,ꦛ but the net resu♉lt is lack of blood to the brain.
Though Sen. Mitch McConnell may appear ဣfine after the event, it signals a health issue that may or 🐽may not be treatable — arrhythmia, seizure, blood pressure dropping suddenly — and there can be lingering brain consequences after the event.
It is an issue that can impact physical capabilities to work at optimal levels. These are not “lightheaded” momen🔯ts.
Amy Hendel
Manhattan
Mc♋Connell not only zoned out for 30 second🍌s, his expression was vacant as he tightly clutched the podium.
And yet he has go🌟tten the all-clear to carry out his duties as a ranking member of the Senate
His co𝄹lleague, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, is so gone that she needs constant prompts to do anything in commi𒅌ttee.
Even in the final days of mom’s battle with Lewy body dementia,🐻 I never saw her checked out like these two, and I was with her daily.
It’s one more black eye for American excellence.
One of the most troubling parts is that none of the other members of the Senate have the brass to step up anꦕd call it what it is.
Rosalee Adams
Tigard, Ore.
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