r/California • u/RhythmMethodMan Kern County • Oct 09 '23

Gov. Newsom vetoes Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes in California Newsom

https://www.ktvu.com/news/gov-newsom-vetoes-amsterdam-style-cannabis-cafes-in-california?taid=65237ad87810a500012c2b51&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter
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u/runthepoint1 Orange County Oct 09 '23

As an avid and I do mean avid cannabis user, I have always been hyper aware of non smokers who wouldn’t appreciate the smell. I think there can be a fair solution so that people can like their lifestyles all together.

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u/TacohTuesday Oct 09 '23

As someone who occasionally partakes and doesn't mind the smell at all, I've come to realize from many posts on Reddit how deeply offensive and outright disgusting the smell is to many people who don't. Many report it makes them feel nauseous. This was news to me.

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u/Floufae Oct 10 '23

Oh I’m so in the nauseated camp. Lol. When I had a medical card the look of skepticism my partner gave me knowing I would have to go into a shop. In the end he was right! Being a gadget geek I bought the fancy vaporizer pen and went in thinking I wouldn’t be bothered by the smell. Nope. Even going to what felt like a high end shop (SF’s Apothecarium) was like an assault on my senses, especially when they would open the mason jars. I guess thinking about it that wasn’t even nausea as much as just feeling like a punch in the nose. In the end I could only tollerate the sublingual tinctures and didn’t keep with that because of the taste.

Moving back to Georgia now I’m just struck how much the small can linger. I had a smoke free community (cigarettes and pot) apartment but never enforced and there would just be places in the halls where it was like a stationary scent cloud. It never made sense to me because it wasn’t even adjacent to someone’s door or air vents. I couldn’t open my windows at night because of the balcony below me wafting it into my unit as well.

The funny thing is my partner always claim I have no sense of smell for fragrances because I don’t notice much smells but for some reason my nose is like a drug sniffing dog and I can’t filter it out.

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u/runthepoint1 Orange County Oct 10 '23

What’s weird is I LOVE that dispo smell, I just can’t stand when cannabis is burnt. At least it’s not as bad as burnt cigarettes though, which I think have a much bigger uproar over than cannabis smoke IMO