Comments on: Big Nanny Baltimore wages war on…cheap cigars

By: Cygnus' Sphere

Cygnus' Sphere — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:56:01 +0000

I moved out of Baltimore for a reason…

Which mainly had to do with not wanting to get shot in my own apartment, which was located within range of a middle school where shootings became the norm in the mid-1990s. (Didn’t Baltimore — and M……

By: undrseige247

undrseige247 — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:38:56 +0000

Obama wouldn’t like this he’s a chain smoker. Lol.

By: wighttrasch

wighttrasch — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:22:14 +0000

I don’t know what everyone is so upset about—-nothing was said when ‘they’ originally came for the smokers of cigarettes. By the way, it’s not worth mentioning that it’s a ‘nasty habit’. A much nastier habit is an adult telling me what to do.

By: hrobusto

hrobusto — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:12:41 +0000

HeatherRadish said:

“There’s a whole bunch of things popularized by hip-hop stars they could consider banning…”

How about a ban on hip-hop stars?

By: AlohaGuy

AlohaGuy — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:50:59 +0000

So, in other words, John Hopkins U is running the city.

No way – it would be run WAAAY better…

Wait, I’ve got it, parents could teach their kids values. Sorry, I’ll go to the corner for some quiet time.

By: greenfairie

greenfairie — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:21:04 +0000

Who cares if the kids beat white girls on the buses so long as they don’t smoke and aren’t eating trans fats? Priorities, people!

By: kjw33

kjw33 — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:19:34 +0000

On May 29th, 2008 at 3:42 am, bloghooligan said:
what BALTImorons.

fixed it fer ya…

By: HeatherRadish

HeatherRadish — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:17:57 +0000

The cigars, which have been popularized by hip-hop stars…

There’s a whole bunch of things popularized by hip-hop stars they could consider banning that would be much more effective in reducing crime. But reducing crime doesn’t seem to be the goal.

By: Fun With Vlad « Countenance Blog

Fun With Vlad « Countenance Blog — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:25:23 +0000

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By: RaisedRight

RaisedRight — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:46:04 +0000

On May 29th, 2008 at 9:32 am, bigGR said:
I for one agree to the ban, but not for the publicly stated reasons. The kids around here use the cheap cigars for disposable crack pipes. They open up the end and drop in a rock of crack and smoke it.

bigGR – I’m afraid I don’t follow… It’s okay to ban something because people might use it as a crack pipe? I have no idea how smoking crack works, but it would seem that many items could then be used as a makeshift crack pipe, you couldn’t possibly mean to ban them all?

By: Silkyinfamous

Silkyinfamous — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:22:18 +0000

Baltimore officials are proposing a citywide ban on the sale of individual small cigars, sometimes called “blunts” or “loosies,” in neighborhood shops.

Sorry guy. They don’t smoke blunts with the tobacco in it. They transfer it over to marijuana and sometimes other items. Maybe you should ban wraps too. Here’s the problem. It’s not the cigar man who’s making your kid smoke weed and act a fool.

It is the parents who don’t take responsibility for their children that are the problem. Start getting your act together.

Don’t worry if you don’t sell them anymore, the kids will just save up and buy the packages, or now you created another commodity to sell on the street, that I assume will be sold tax free. I guess you are giving the junior entrepreneurs another item to sell. I guess a dime bag and the blunt will be sold at the same time, thanks for making the trip to the store a thing of the past.

By: gridlock

gridlock — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:14:27 +0000

It is good to know that Baltimore has stomped out crime and solved all the serious problems so they can finally spend time on trivia like this.

By: spo-con

spo-con — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:13:48 +0000

Yo dog, lets go stoke up a blunt and get up a couple 40s homey ! Seriously, these folks really think outlawing “blunts” is going to stop crime in the streets ? Wow what are they smokin’ ?

By: taylork

taylork — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:43:30 +0000

So how is this going to work exactly? I assume that someone is going to go into a corner store, bypassing the kids out front dealing drugs or playing dice, and then look over the conter to see if the owner is selling blunts. After a fine has/hasn’t been made, said officer will then leave the store, again bypassing the trouble makers and drive away.

Now that’s what I cal efffective policing!!!

By: bigGR

bigGR — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:32:39 +0000

I for one agree to the ban, but not for the publicly stated reasons. The kids around here use the cheap cigars for disposable crack pipes. They open up the end and drop in a rock of crack and smoke it.

I’m sure other drugs are used elsewhere in the same holder. It eliminates the drug paraphenalia charge. You can’t get arrested for carrying a cigar like carrying a crack pipe.