NO!!! Are people smoking cigarettes...
Cigarette smokers aren't "flaunting their right to do so" at all. Some used to, twenty years ago. They were seen as assholes then, and they always looked like they just crawled out from under their bridge with their bottle, too. They were never exactly accomplished people that carried any weight or authority. The most you see is people that are too lazy or crippled to stand 10' from the door. It's hardly the same as "flaunting". Placing yourself as a supposed "medical user" on equal footing with them is to follow them into the quicksand. "But... but I want to stand 10' from the door tooo". I know that you're not saying they are flaunting it, but if you haven't noticed, they are well on their way to being prohibited completely, at least in practice if not otherwise.
Pill users, as you also mentioned, is no equivalent, since it's so discrete. They would also very much like to restrict you to a tablet as well.
It sure is too easy to make bullshit populist arguments like these. "But what about them." Try thinking it through though. "Why should mmj users be treated as outcasts?" Because, they act like fucking idiots. As an example, go look at the self defeating hack "Activists"/business ventures outside of the CHAMPS expo in Toronto, where they felt it so wise and necessary to have a "420 flashmob" in the middle of the busy sidewalk, because it's just mandatory for everybody to "medicate", in a fucking herd, even when 3/4 of them will tell you they're not medical users. _not even coke users powder their noses together in the bathroom, or need to_. Weed isn't even really a "social drug", like E. For many it's the exact opposite. What the fuck is it with them? Well, they've got to make it look like a party all of the time. "yyyyyyyeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa". You know, your typical walking beer commercials. Some folks aren't ever alcoholics. They just drink 24/7 because they're "partiers" and "like to have a good time". Certainly there are no parallels here...
Meanwhile, they knew damn well they were all being idiots. The first thing Jodie Emery said when she got to the sidewalk even prior to that was "this is horrible, patients need to be hidden in the back alley, out of sight from the public.. 'For their privacy'." "Privacy"? LOL.... she knew they all looked like assholes! Same as the others. "We shouldn't have to be on the sidewalk and people are complaining as they walk by. That lady said nasty things!. She should stop and listen to us blow smoke up her ass while we blow it in her face. People need education". Looks like you just gave them one. You showed them we're all fucking assholes, and completely inconsiderate. Good job. It's just their business models, pretending to give a shit, while doing all they can to erode your rights, by being inconsiderate assholes, pushing insane extremes rather solidifying necessary rights, and acting like there are no consequences.
These are the same who will be on board, and have been on board, supporting oppressive legislation that ensures you don't get to smoke weed out of your basement. They've supported and advocated for scientifically ignorant and damaging, flat out backwards provisions like 5ng/ml, which is effectively ZERO TOLERANCE, which is PROHIBITION, particularly for the youth that they were pretending to be working to save, condemning them to "re-education centers" at their own expense, and as their first steps into a system that won't let them go, while standing there fucking saying "we're moving forward..... teehee".
Mandatory minimums, for marihuana, have provisions that include such things as "parks, playgrounds, or anywhere else a child is likely to be". You're not exempt from those laws as you're not exempt as a medical user under the MMPR. Only the product is exempt. That's the very basis of the MMPR. Pretending it's more legal than it is, or pretending you're exempt than you are, is not going to change the reality. Case in point: Nobody is allowed to grow medically for themselves.
"Wonderland" qualifies as all three of the restrictions under mandatory minimums. If you're so damn sick that you need to 'medicate' on the spot, then you're probably also not at Wonderland, standing in line in the heat for ten fucking hours,with a fresh seasons pass. a Sick person is unlikely to subject themselves to that torture, and anyone doing so lacks credibility, which I have to resent on the basis that it undermines not "forward movement" (into the abyss), but fucking PROGRESS. They're not the same! Stop allying yourselves with assholes who speak in tongues of "forward movement" vacuous buzzwords, as they push you off a fucking bridge.
It's not also a "stigma surrounding the smell". Though, I find certain heavy perfumes rather offensive, as many others do. Some people are also made sick by it. In some places, you can't wear perfume because of it. I think I might have even heard somewhere they've banned it in high schools, because it affects people. Where's your argument now? Some people just can't wipe their ass well or wash it, others have rotting limbs due to disease, and they get disallowed from public transport or other areas, where it's bad for business or people don't want to have to endure it. Why should they suffer because you can't wash your ass?
Indeed there is a stigma against it, after a 100 years of propaganda, it's not all fair. As well, there needs to be tolerance. If someone, who maybe already ate a cookie or two, is standing in line at Wonderland, and feels a seizure coming on, I would expect them to get out of line, have a seat on the bench or ground nearby, and hit their vape pen to their hearts content. Someone about to have a seizure doesn't want to ride the roller coasters anymore. But if you're doing it as a matter or course of ritual, which is btw, for most all of those pricks, just _marketing_..... (420 yaaaaaay), then that's not "medicating". It's being an asshole.
You see, there's one that should be supported, that there needs to be tolerance of, and there's another that should be discouraged, because it's defeating, and a judge would be well advised in asking "What made you feel that you had to dose right then and there? Couldn't you have eaten a cookie? Weren't you aware of that?" You know, to establish the actual medical urgency claimed, or how well a "patient" may have prepared for the inevitable.
Some just want to go around building empires with "hotboxing" viral youtube videos, and then we'll argue that second hand smoke can't get you high and that people should have unreasonable levels of tolerance for assholes blowing it in their faces in public, rather than the option to choose for themselves to be free of it or not. The drug may be mostly harmless, when used reasonably, but these assholes aren't.
Whenever I have weed I'll be walking down the street smoking a joint. Never have I been bothered or busted. I won't smoke it while waiting in line someplace. If I'm walking by a school with kids running around everywhere, or passing by a park, I'll knock the cherry off and palm it until I've gone by. Not because it would kill them if I didn't, but just out of fucking respect, what most of these activists lack any of.
If someone runs across the street to nag me for it, I might blow it in their face and tell them to fuck off. That's never happened. There is a certain tolerance. And between intolerant and tolerant, there's going to be a point of equilibrium established only through constant effort until we reach a real tipping point in culture and we're nowhere fucking near that. If I ran across the street and blew it in someone's face, I would expect an intolerant response. Nothing of that changed when I got on the MMAR, despite the encouragement otherwise. Nothing about it changed when I got off it. The difference is that under the MMAR, I actually was excempt. Under the MMPR, only the LP product is.
I once had a neighbor call the cops on me, on xmas day, for smoking a joint in a shed some 20 yards out. The cops came over and the neighbors were pointing shed out to them, talking about the smoke and the smell. Then, the cops left, because they didn't give a fuck. Most of the time, they were in the garage across the street smoking up there.
Any other day that wouldn't have been a problem. My neighbor wouldn't have given a shit. But xmas morning they were having company, who had children, and having children makes ignorant people extremists with their blind protectionism. That's to say, reactionists. Now you could try and argue for increased tolerance when faced with that, but the general advice when confronted with a mother bear who has cubs nearby is to play dead, because they'll rip into you without fucking thinking. It's prudent to avoid them and focus your efforts in more sensible areas.
I think people need to appreciate that we don't know exactly where we stand with rights right now. The facts are that we are losing them in leaps and bounds, without most even realizing it, and with are bullshit activists telling us it's getting better when it's not while they ignore the reality of it and profit by doing so.
I am not accusing the OP of doing anything wrong. But Wonderland has been a known hotbed for shit like this. This is not the first Wonderland story. It might however be the first under the MMPR and post mandatory mins. His actions were reasonable under the old systems and old established rights. But shit is all up in the air right now, and I can't fucking believe there are people here saying "don't even bother getting a lawyer". Dude, get a fucking lawyer.