I've also been with people who are smoking pot too and that will get me to leave. Smoken things prevent a person from being present but not partaking. I passionately despise pot.
Why -- because it smells gross, or because of contact high?
Both. I tend to get away from smokers of all types but the contact high part makes marijuana extra horrible to be around.
The former is fair, but outside of unrealistic situations with no (or virtually no) ventilation, contact high is effectively a myth.
I've also been with people who are smoking pot too and that will get me to leave. Smoken things prevent a person from being present but not partaking. I passionately despise pot.
Why -- because it smells gross, or because of contact high?
Or you know, because of the health dangers from being in a room with smoke?
His language ("passionately despise pot" but moreso his description of secondhand smoke as "partaking") was kind of a red flag for me that he didn't just mean avoiding smoke -- like I said, "contact high" is probably, in almost every real-world case, a totally psychological phenomenon. But not wanting to inhale smoke is a totally reasonable concern. It seems ridiculously rude to me to smoke marijuana around people who aren't down with it, although vaporizing is a more ambiguous case, since it's obviously less irritating and safer (although it's still reasonable to avoid if you want to be risk-adverse -- there's apparently some high ammonia content released by some vaporizers.)
Not a pot guy. Just being an obnoxious science jerk here.
The study you linked to suggests that it is possible to get a second-hand high from marijuana in poorly ventilated rooms. If anything, it tells me I ought to be more concerned than before reading it. Sure, it shows that in a sufficiently ventilated room there next to no chance at all of getting a second hand high. But the relevant scenario for me would be a poorly ventilated room in a 90-year old apartment building in Madison in January when every crevice connected with the outdoors is sealed as best as possible.
Still, I'm not seriously worried about failing a drug test. It will be a while before I would have any reason to take one. I just want to stay away from the stuff.
The "passionately despise" part was mostly a reference to the smell. The "partaking" was a reference to the possibility of a second-hand high.
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