Ready for inevitable action
"On Friday I went down to the library," writes a reader. "During the day, the place is usually frequented by old folk and students studying. One student was at a table with her laptop plugged into the wall behind her, and the cord draped across the intervening passage. I pointed out to the student that the looped cord was a tripping hazard, to which she responded: 'Oh, I am studying to be a paramedic, so it's okay.' Worse than the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff, a paramedic pushing you off it!"
Dope drain on environment
California's forests host major marijuana-growing operations (legal and illegal), and though the product has its virtues, cannabis farming creates massive problems - guzzling water (23 litres a day per plant - state drought or not) and needing the protection of a dangerous rodenticide. A state wildlife official told NBC News in April that the cannabis sites "use mass[ive] amounts of fertilisers, divert natural run-off waters, create toxic run-off waste and byproducts, remove large amounts of vegetation and trees," and "create unstable soils and kill or displace wildlife." (NBC News)
