The powerful anxiety driving people furious about “weed smell.”
, the Chicago Tribune’s Mary Schmich, who is Boomer-aged, remembered Chicago smelling like “rotten eggs mixed with blood, feces, and a dollop of garlic” when she moved there, a smell that has “vanished on the winds of history.” That was good, she wrote, but the replacement was not so great: “A new smell has blown in on the winds of change, and that’s the smell of weed.
”The idea that kids might be smelling weed—not smoking it, not inhaling its second-hand smoke , just whiffing its recently combusted terpenes in an outdoor setting, like I used to catch the odor of gin and Chardonnay at my parents’ summer cocktail parties—comes up often in this discourse. “Two days ago I was outside a children’s gymnastics centre watching my 2 y/o niece do a class and the smell of weed was stifling,” Simmonsin introducing her piece online.
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