Anxiety spreads in San Diego after North County surf town outlaws smoking weed in apartments

“This is more than an annoyance. This is a painful and alarming health hazard.”

And the slippah has finally dropped. Now, San Diego County is not a place that would be called “progressive” either left or right. Politics generally take a backseat to a general crowing about how the weather is always perfect, vibes always chill, which makes Carlsbad’s decision to outlaw smoking inside apartments or condos regardless of ownership or personal liberty so shocking.

No marijuana, no cigarette and, presumably, no methamphetamine.

No vaping or bong rips of the aforementioned either.

According to The Los Angeles Times, “In addition to barring people from lighting up inside private homes, the Carlsbad ordinance also prohibits smoking on private balconies, porches, decks, patios and common areas that are not designated as smoking locations.”

Carlsbad local Katrina Preece complained to the City Council last year about the effects of secondhand smoke, declaring, “This is more than an annoyance. This is a painful and alarming health hazard.”

Many others nodded along, bringing facts and figures defining smoking as the leading cause of preventable deaths in the United States.

Anxiety, though, spreading quickly south to coastal burghs like Leucadia, Del Mar and La Jolla where professional old-school modern longboarders enjoy the age old tradition of blazing in apartment/condo before cross-stepping on the high seas. Will the ordinance move past the borders of Carlsbad or will Cardiff by the Sea form up a green line of freedom?

More as the story develops.