A carnival with an anti-drug message for children has set up in the parking lot at Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda. L.E.A.D Fest, an initiative produced by the organization Law Enforcement Against Drugs, will be at the mall tonight through Sunday May 11, 2025. A parent or guardian must accompany children under 18, some rides require a parent to also ride along, only clear bags will be allowed into the carnival area, and no face coverings are allowed, unless required for a medical reason.
Tickets can be purchased online. It's intriguing to have an anti-drug event in a county and state whose leadership are strongly pro-drug, both legal and illegal. Worth contemplating, is why your elected officials want you to be zonked out on mind-altering drugs. Just say no!
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Unfortunately with legalized weed everywhere in the DC metro area, law enforcement is fighting an uphill battle. like it or not, it's the gateway to being a perpetual unproductive slacker or worse on to harder drugs.
During AM/PM rush on OGR, (thanks to the idiotic road diet causing stopped traffic), there are always cars reeking of weed. Can't even ride the red line downtown without smelling it.
OK, I'll bite-- just how, exactly, are Maryland's and Montgomery County's leaders "strongly pro-drug" with regard to "illegal" drugs?
" a county and state whose leadership are strongly pro-drug, both legal and illegal." Please expound, Robert. I admit having been distracted of late, but I was not aware either MoCo or MD had come out as supporting, endorsing, or being "strongly pro- [illegal] drugs.
Further, is there a problem with being in favor of *legal* drugs? Personally, I'm all for vaccines that prevent mumps, measles, and rubella; of NSAIDs, statins, ACE inhibitors, bismuths, and a constellation of other legal OTC and prescription drugs that make life a fair shake better than it was before their advent, when barbers used leeches to balance the "humors," then left patients to die of what we now consider the most benign, curable afflictions.
Thank you so much for saying the quiet part out load. I was in Amsterdam recently and even there, the pot smoking is discreet. Every five blocks in the DC area you smell the disgusting stink weed. I can't even take the dog out back because these losers behind me smoke dope in their back yard all the damn time. Nothing I can do about it. Can't even grill. By the way, the Far Left says you can't have a gas powered tool for your yard and global warming blah, blah, can everything. But second hand pot smoke isn't an issue? Huh?
McGruff, the drug dog.
Clear bags are going to be a real problem for those kids that throw up after a carnival ride…
Will the reefer dispensaries have booths?
JAC, hypocrisy is their calling card. In a different era, we were told smoking weed was "like smoking ten packs a day" of cigarettes healthwise. Now the same people tell us it's a balm for every ailment. Like natural gas buses (vs. diesel) or plastic bags (the trees!!!!) - the same people change their message at the drop of a hat, when it means keeping the grift going and the power in their hands, regardless of the science, cost, or societal impacts.
7:57: I'm intrigued that MCDOT could not answer my question to them on X regarding the traffic signal timing on OGR, which only exacerbates the 33% loss of vehicle capacity. My most recent rush hour trips found zero people using either bike lane al the way to the end.
3:08 - Robert - that's exactly right.
Sad but dead accurate.
@3:08 Exactly. We were in southern Europe this spring and yes there are a lot of cigarette smokers but in general, they actually control themselves so you can eat outside in relative peace. In DC, you need to take a table inside.
The OGR road diet is one of the most pathetic waste of resources so the one moonbat can ride to Aldi. Can't wait for this coming fall when MC is going to look a lot more lived-in without gas blowers. Landscapers I've talked to are geared up with gas & diesel generators on their trailers to charge on the average of 4 batteries per blower, (8 batteries for the backpack which takes 2), to reduce charging downtime. Never mind the environmental damage, (and major fire hazard), all these batteries create during production, charging and eventually disposal. All because idiots on the council, (and their liberal voters base), think electricity comes from Wall sockets.
So if marijuana/cannabis doesn't qualify as "illegal," what are the illegal drugs that state/country leaders are so "strongly pro-drug" about? Or did that question (posed by two different people) get "lost in the weed"?
4:27 - Yes, that's the Left's slight of hand. Look over here at this shiny, awesome, new fangled device that's whisper quiet and don't look in the other direction about where these batteries come from, the slave labor it takes to mine the minerals to make them and what they do to the environment when they're disposed of. I like what else you had to say as well and totally agree.
A reminder to lock your car doors at night. Thefts seem to skyrocket whenever these “carnivals” are in town……
Underrated comment!
8:34 wants to lump vaccines into the same category as weed? Talk about someone who needs to take a break from the waterpipe.
Drugs are bad, mkay...
Hey Jac, regarding your neighbors smoking dope. Maybe it's time to start smoking fish anytime thise losers light up, fighting fire with fire so to speak.
2:46 - Not a bad idea. I have a Big Green Egg. Ha! Hopefully they'll move.
I suppose the 'road diet' pinheads strive to make MoCo green again!
8:04 - yeah, let's destroy roads that aren't broken. I travel that stretch 20 times a week minimum. Never ever see anybody utilizing those bike lanes. One of the most pleasant drives in the Bethesda area is Little falls parkway. Absolutely insane what they are supposedly and eventually going to do which is to redesign that entire stretch to make it two lane only and cost the taxpayer an untold amount of millions of dollars that we did not ask for, did not vote for and even the mayor of Somerset said, please do not do.
Lock your car door each time you enter/exit your car! Better safe than sorry. . .
Be extra careful driving there at night. The have locked steel gates!
So prescient. Note the recent news of widespread car break-ins in Laurel, etc.
Coincidence? I don’t think so!
The last time I checked Marijuana is not an illegal drug. As someone who has benefited holistically health wise with the use of marijuana, there is no real problem with the use of marijuana. It has helped by giving cancer patients an alternative to counteracts the harsh cancer treatments administered here in the United States. It has helped with "not wasting away" during pharmaceutical treatments that robs a cancer patient of their lives in the name of "saving" that life. It helps cancer patients keep an appetite. It helps cancer patients be able to relax to get proper rest. It eliminates pain killers in many case so that patients don't become addicted to the so called peripheral drugs administered during traditional cancer treatments. Marijuana helps autistic people and people with Parkinson's disease. Marijuana isn't new it has always been in great supply and demand regardless of it being legal or not. I will agree that some people "abuse"the freedom to smoke in public places. However unlike second hand cigarette smoking , marijuana doesn't cause any health concerns...it doesn't give someone lung cancer or any other health issues to my knowledge. This plant has been demonized unfairly. Cigarettes are still on the market available to everyone and there are extraordinary proofs to the detrimental health issues and deaths that have occurred because of cigarettes. Alcohol another legal substance that has caused a multitude of health issues and deaths but still available on the market. Take a look at all of the nFDA regulated pharmaceutical drugs out there that kills and damages health and doesn't cure any thing. I could go on and on but I don't have time. However I will suggest that all you people who are complaining about the legalization of marijuana do your homework do your research and be honest and compare marijuana versus cigarettes, alcohol, pharmaceutical drugs, and the overall effects each of these things have had on our health. I will honestly say if it was not for marijuana I wouldn't be here today. It allowed me to limit the amount of drugs that were scheduled for me doing my cancer treatment with chemotherapy and radiation. I come from a holistic medical state of being and I think that people should have a choice as to which method they want to choose for their health and it should not be dictated because somebody can't stand the smell of a plant being burnt. I do agree that people should use some discretion in smoking and where they smoke and to take other people's into consideration but I don't believe that marijuana use properly is a threat to anything. After all marijuana is a God made substance pharmaceuticals are man-made synthetic substances that don't cure anything. Pharmaceuticals create drug addicts and drug patience for these pharmaceutical companies to keep making the billions that they do and they don't heal or cure anything.
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