There have been a ton of calls here to go after Muslim calls to prayer using noise pollution laws.

There are a lot of cigarette bans in public areas due to health concerns from secondhand smoke.

I’m open to being wrong, and note that the ability I’m suggesting should be up to local ordinances, and not nationwide, but having some preventative method to keep children from having to play in a cloud of marijuana smoke is at least a better argument than both of those. It seems comparable to someone running a bass booster loud enough to shake neighboring walls (valid), or rerouting water flow such that it causes flood control issues (very valid).

There is a place for laws and judgments when one person or unreasonably affects his property or ability to freely enjoy public spaces in a free society, and the first two claim examples seem like lesser justified examples than this one, though I do agree that we’ve gone too far on legalistically imposing them as a whole. We’ve also become far too inconsiderate of a society as a whole, and there need to be corrective methods.

Perhaps restoring “right to a trial by jury of peers” could accomplish the task, rather than simply having judge or “regulator” handing down statutory decrees.