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Posted by Theodore Gorath]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:31:16 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Lissa]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:20:36 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mister G]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 01:34:29 -0800 The Stranger 61 comments into the thread, so you read all preceding 60 comments, amiright? So what was that about psychopathy?
Posted by imbecile]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:33:21 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by NotSean]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:31:24 -0800 The Stranger Agreed. The courts decide, and pointless or questionable lease violations will often be thrown out or at least the penalty will be negligible.

Still, people need to read legal stuff before they sign it, because sometimes even silly things will be enforced by judges simply because the person was dumb enough to sign it.
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:55:06 -0800 The Stranger Posted by fletc3her]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:50:31 -0800 The Stranger
Is there some word for a person who chooses to ignore the main subject of a statement, and somehow focus on what, in the case at hand, is its most trivial aspect, and then take a pot shot at the author. For example, for any sane or right-minded person, they would focus on children inhaling meth fumes. But no. Not in this case (and not in many cases when it comes to Democrat controlled blogs such as this). In each and every instance some tangential point is made.

It's like the case where say a Republican rushes into a theater, which is actually on fire, and shouts "Fire" and then the Democrat says "oh, but weren't you the one that cut revenue for those new firefighter foam hose nozzles (the ones that my dad's factory makes, by the way)". It really borders into a kind of psychopathy, to read this idiocy night and day. My only hope is that someone, somewhere sifts through this dreck and sends out the butterfly nets for you people.
Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:46:41 -0800 The Stranger
If the lease says "tenant not allowed to use cough syrup" and the tenant signs that lease, then guess what? The tenant can't fucking use cough syrup without violating the terms of the lease.

@40, Have you ever heard of a contract before? A lease is a contract. The lease writer can write any fucking "laws" they want into the lease. Don't like it? Then don't sign it. But if a tenant signs it, THEN THEY HAVE SIGNED A CONTRACT AND MUST ABIDE BY IT.

How is this hard for people to understand?
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:35:19 -0800 The Stranger
@46: you'll only smell weed once or twice on an average day, so i doubt it will kill you.
Posted by Max Solomon]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:29:41 -0800 The Stranger Posted by NotSean]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:22:38 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sarah70]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:41:32 -0800 The Stranger
I've been smelling meth fumes for the last 3 years down in Kent East and no one seems to know what to be able to do about it. And the place is packed with families with kids.

Guess that is Washington State Libs for you...whine and cry about taxes for the poor, but forget about them and spend it all on infrastructure for billionerds.


Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:52:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by dirac]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:51:36 -0800 The Stranger Posted by imbecile]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:41:28 -0800 The Stranger
The whole thing is a tempest in a teapot.

If the lease agreement already prohibits illegal drug use and if marijuana use continues to be illegal (federally), then it is already prohibited by the lease and no change in the lease agreement is necessary to prohibit it.

If the lease agreement does not already prohibit illegal drug use (or other illegal activity) then it seems odd to single out this specific activity, but it still doesn't matter since it is completely unenforceable. As has been noted, people can consume weed any number of ways other than smoking it and that consumption would be undetectable.
Posted by Charlie Mas]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:37:33 -0800 The Stranger It is illegal at the federal level.
Propery owners and property management companies have to cover their fat asses. Any federal rent subsidies could cease. Kiss those Section 8 rent checks goodby! Any HUD rehab loans? Not anymore.
Of course the anti pot amendments are virtually unenforceable (unless they are coupled with anti smoking provisions), but they have to have that signed piece of paper on hand for the next Section 8 inspection or whatever federal bureaucracy they are involved with.
Posted by imbecile]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:27:20 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:35:11 -0800 The Stranger
if you need mj for medical reasons, yes, you'd have a GREAT argument under state law that the landlord can't stop you. because in that case you fall under the discrimination exception to general freedom of contract in this area; the landlord can't discriminate against you based on disability and must accommodate you. that said, you still are at risk because it is still illegal under federal law and i couldn't advise you without say ten hours of research, no ez answer. . again, think of it this way. the landlord has a big old building worth say $3 million. he has a insurance policy that says likely he must take reasonable steps to ban illegal acts. if he doesn't try to ban pot explicitly he risks one day finding himself in court against an evil insurance company lawyer who will argue thelandlord let there be pot smoking...didn't ban it....there was a fire ....the $3 million building is destroyed... they pay some expert whore $40K to testify aha! the fire was caused by someone smoking pot and being stoned...therefore poof! no insurance coverage. now landlod broke, insurer need not pay, insurer lawyers goes home and somehow sleeps soundly on his gold lined feather bed. the world sucks doesn't it?

now try to imagine how landlords lenders, and insurers all deal with this BEFORE that fire happens ...can you not see that they have all decided fuck, we better take steps to specifically ban pot? btw pls. realize the "poit's legal!" view fails to consider oh the history of the states rights approach to federalism issues and our history in about 1860 to 1866 ... this notion that somehow state law creates this fuzzy never never land area of legality even when that said area is still illegal under federal law. it's a stoned and silly view.

you're on the side jeff davis took. do you realize that dude? see any problems there? no? you must have great weed.
Posted by that'll be $300 please!]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:11:14 -0800 The Stranger
The main sidewalk threat is bicyclists. And you're not going to find much of anything to eat at 2 AM. AND there's two completely different coffee drinks around here that go by the name "Americano". One is very much like French Press, the other is much more bitter, with sort of this thick, chunky coffee scum on top. These are the things that are killing me.
Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:06:52 -0800 The Stranger
The only argument I see that holds water is the argument that it is still a Federal crime and that property could be seized if marijuana use is allowed on the premises.
Posted by Bauhaus I]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:56:44 -0800 The Stranger
SLOG 101:

Gun accidentally discharges in mall in Kitsap?

Outrage!

Black man walks into club in Bellevue and starts shooting and killing?

Meeeh….

Posted by It's ok for blacks to be "gun nuts" I guess]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:39:16 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Griffin]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:35:19 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:13:30 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty]]> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:09:57 -0800 The Stranger