I couldn't care less about whether people want to smoke pot -- it is a fairly benign pursuit compared to booze, narcotics or cigarettes. The Up in Smoke cafe provides a space for people to socialize while enjoying their marijuana in a friendly setting.

I own a shop a couple of doors down from the cafe and do not have a problem with pot smokers. I do believe they aren't doing their public image any favours by hanging out all day idly smoking pot.

Most are young and unemployed and have no ambition other than standing up for their right to smoke pot in public. Most non-pot smokers and pot smokers who work for a living have no sympathy for their plight.

The thing I find highly irritating with the cafe is that when individuals want to smoke a tobacco cigarette, they do so out in front of the cafe, blocking the sidewalk and creating a smog of cigarette smoke that wafts into other businesses. When one asks these loitering smokers to move away from the business entrance, they are rude and surly.

So leave the pot smokers in the cafe alone -- bust the loitering, rude tobacco smokers, or get them to smoke out back. It would be a definite improvement for King Street.