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by human? » Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:49 pm
in NYC weve had the smoking ban for it seems like forever now...
and def the main #1 wack bullshit angle which was immediately apparent was that we couldnt smoke herbs in the club anymore...
and that def changed the vibes considerably...
so now after a few years, this is whats happened...
i dunno if it is a giant backfire in teh governments face, or just a loophole slip through the cracks type thing, but back before the smoking ban it was really nervous smokin tree on the street... a cypher on the block didnt look right.. if you were just standing on the street with heads, or even alone, smoking, there was a good chance that police would roll on you...
nowadays not so much... as long as you are kinda in a area that has clubs & bars, it is completely normal to see a group of people smoking, which in turn has made it ALOT safer to smoke tree on the streets of NYC (*disclaimer* still be carefull, & dont blame me if you end up in teh bing)
so they pushed us onto the street, and now smoking on the street isnt as suspect as it once was.... i dunno if this is a benefit per se, but its def the positive that ive noticed, despite the huge negative of not being able to just burn in the spot....
also........ there ARE spots you can still smoke in... they WILL start slowly emerging as owners get over the fear of tickets...
in my neighborhood in Queens, all the pubs (there are ALOT of them in Sunnyside) have a system set up... where if the smoking police hit one of the spots, they just have a telephone call network and all warn each other to hide the ashtrays etc.. and when one spot gets busted in the network, they all chip down to pay the fine...
but yeah... that doesnt really help me blaze spliff in the dance..
the only real solution is to get the night so packed that it reaches the tipping point where people just start smoking and the bouncers really cant do anything.....
and thank god for the few spots that say fuck it to the law.. (apparently, the smokin police get off work at 11pm, so............ yeah lol)
and burn tree on the street, it doesnt look strange anymore..
one
human?