I was smelling my neighbor’s marijuana smoke and was thinking what a kind of disgusting habit it is. Certainly very pungent but so is tobacco and there is fewer and fewer places you can smoke that indoors and even outdoors. Tobacco smoke really trashes the insides of buildings and can be quite irritating to others even if I do think the risks of second hand smoke are quite overblown except maybe for cocktail waitresses who wafted through it all day long at a local bar.

Truth is that I like smoking pot and even that occasional drag on a cigarette in the wilderness with a cold beer. I do like that big bonfire, burning my trash, having good fires. Recycling these days zis a joke as is washing out those plastic containers. But let’s be honest, smoke even wh you’re just burning wood can be pretty obnoxious when you’re downwind. It’s why space and land is so important.