Is it Legal to Smoke a Pipe while Driving?
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His exact words were "just because its legal doesn't mean you can smoke it while you're driving." I went on to explain it was tobacco and showed him the tin since he didn't believe me.
After examining the tin and pulling out a quarter of my 965 on the ground, he looked embarrassed and said " I didn't know people still did that" and let me go. I could tell he was hoping to snag me for a DUI. That's big money out here for the city.
Look, the real skinny is the law is whatever a cop says it is unless you have the money and time to contend otherwise. In which case, the law is whatever someone with a gavel and dressed as a wizard says it is.
Is it legal by the book? In the vast majority of cases, sure. But if you get pulled over, and the cop decides he "smells" weed or whatever stupid shit he comes up with, then get ready for a long day.
SCOTUS and so-called "tough on crime" types have spent the last three decades eroding your 4th amendment protections, especially if you are behind the wheel. Best thing to do is not give any cop an excuse to pull you over in the first place.
Is it legal by the book? In the vast majority of cases, sure. But if you get pulled over, and the cop decides he "smells" weed or whatever stupid shit he comes up with, then get ready for a long day.
SCOTUS and so-called "tough on crime" types have spent the last three decades eroding your 4th amendment protections, especially if you are behind the wheel. Best thing to do is not give any cop an excuse to pull you over in the first place.
You shouldn't ask such questions. It will give the bad guys something to do, and they have already done enough to us.
Typically, I have a smoke on left hand, beer coke on right hand, left knee steeling the wheel, and right knee trying to steady the cell phone so I can see where I'm going. If I had one more hand, I'm pretty sure I can hold on to a pipe.
In the past year I've had two strange experiences with the police while smoking (cigarettes):
1. I went through a checkpoint in GA while burning a cigarette, a young buck state policeman barked, "put that out"... I was so caught off guard I was looking around for somewhere to put it out, I wasn't going to burn my finger. My ashtray was full of change, and if I threw it out the window he'd say I was littering... I just told him "no." Again he snapped "Sir, put it out.", "No" i said again. He handed me back my license and said "drive safely." Very strange incounter indeed.
2. I was pulled over in AL for a missing headlight, I had just hit a deer minutes before. A lady cop wrote me a full on ticket for the headlight and to my surprise a ticket for "smoking/vaping with a minor in the car, Under 12"... My son who is 11 was in the car and I was smoking as usual, I never heard of this before. I had to go to court, for some reason I couldn't just pay the ticket. I guess they hoped the judge would scold me. Long story short, the judge threw the ticket out because neither he, nor the DA had ever heard of the law. They said I may be the first in Alabama to get the ticket. Both of them agreed in open court that the law was absurd.
As far as I'm concerned they can suck it, I'm smoking in my car whenever I'm in it.
Pipes, cigars, hookahs, vapes, cigarettes, in rental cars... Whatever I want, jack booted thugs be damned.
1. I went through a checkpoint in GA while burning a cigarette, a young buck state policeman barked, "put that out"... I was so caught off guard I was looking around for somewhere to put it out, I wasn't going to burn my finger. My ashtray was full of change, and if I threw it out the window he'd say I was littering... I just told him "no." Again he snapped "Sir, put it out.", "No" i said again. He handed me back my license and said "drive safely." Very strange incounter indeed.
2. I was pulled over in AL for a missing headlight, I had just hit a deer minutes before. A lady cop wrote me a full on ticket for the headlight and to my surprise a ticket for "smoking/vaping with a minor in the car, Under 12"... My son who is 11 was in the car and I was smoking as usual, I never heard of this before. I had to go to court, for some reason I couldn't just pay the ticket. I guess they hoped the judge would scold me. Long story short, the judge threw the ticket out because neither he, nor the DA had ever heard of the law. They said I may be the first in Alabama to get the ticket. Both of them agreed in open court that the law was absurd.
As far as I'm concerned they can suck it, I'm smoking in my car whenever I'm in it.
Pipes, cigars, hookahs, vapes, cigarettes, in rental cars... Whatever I want, jack booted thugs be damned.
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I would be in big, big trouble if it were mandatory.
If it is not banned in almost every part of the world I think it is due to a legislative gap, I have no other explanation.
A funny sketch comes to mind in "Sturmtruppen", a comic strip like "Peanuts" so to speak, where the protagonists are German soldiers during the Second World War. At a certain point, in the company, a soldier shows up at the front completely naked. He is immediately attacked by the (very mean) sergeant who tells him that going to fight naked is against the rules. At which point the soldier takes out the book of military regulations and says: "can you find the point where it talks about it?".
If it is not banned in almost every part of the world I think it is due to a legislative gap, I have no other explanation.
A funny sketch comes to mind in "Sturmtruppen", a comic strip like "Peanuts" so to speak, where the protagonists are German soldiers during the Second World War. At a certain point, in the company, a soldier shows up at the front completely naked. He is immediately attacked by the (very mean) sergeant who tells him that going to fight naked is against the rules. At which point the soldier takes out the book of military regulations and says: "can you find the point where it talks about it?".
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I find it very hard to believe that someone would think that someone was smoking weed out of a large tobacco pipe. I mean, I know that a 14 year old might do that, but a fully grown man? This is my problem with encouraging young 30 somethings into pipe smoking. At 30, a guy doesn't have the self confidence to smoke a pipe casually out in the open. They still look like children, and they still have that young man's ego that worries about people judging them. Wait till you're fully developed at 50, and grow a beard. 
JK... really... but still... grow a beard. Ha ha.
Honestly, I can get out of my truck, put on my straw hat with my pipe in clench, and walk by a 30something smoking a pipe, and wonder why that child doesn't just use edibles. Ha ha.
JK... really... but still... grow a beard. Ha ha. Honestly, I can get out of my truck, put on my straw hat with my pipe in clench, and walk by a 30something smoking a pipe, and wonder why that child doesn't just use edibles. Ha ha.
You are obviously mistaking correlation for causation.
All righty, then. Let's leave this part out of further discussion.
I'm going to say it if no one else is; it's not absurd at all. Willfully exposing children to secondhand smoke could be severely detrimental to their health. This kind of stuff is the reason why smokers are reviled by nonsmokers.
My father did all the time. However, I can definitely say my own smoking is far worse than 2nd hand smoking from his. And, I'm still smoking and enjoying my life. Although, I never smoke around my kids, but that's more to do with dealing with endless PSA from my wife if I did.
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