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Re: “How Would Pot Tourism Impact Charleston?”

Hippie riffraff? You obviously know nothing about the kinds of people that currently enjoy marijuana, or at least have in the past. This is not 1968 Susan....you should be ashamed of that reference. There are thousands of extremely successful business women and men, politicians, school administrators, civic leaders and on and on who have enjoyed themselves when smoking weed and continued to be responsible, productive members of society. There are obviously many others who understand it's a failed war and our time, money and resources can be allocated elsewhere with greater impact.

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Posted by follyollyincomefree on November 14, 2012 at 11:55 AM

Re: “The Folly Beach alcohol ban is a bit late, but it's worth the effort”

Both of those areas are much larger, with much greater populations, and much closer to Charleston. The restaurants and shops on FB will struggle with less visitors in the summer...they rely on the income during that time to try to make it through the rest of the year. Not the case with the other places...

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Posted by follyollyincomefree on July 18, 2012 at 11:14 AM

Re: “The Folly Beach alcohol ban is a bit late, but it's worth the effort”

I live on Folly, and while I'm not a fan of the immediacy of the ban, action needed to be taken. However, if this ban becomes permanent, then Folly Beach has to take other steps to continue to bring people into town.

The town council and some long time residents want to encourage more families to visit. Tell me, what is there for kids to do here? There is nowhere for them to congregate, and when they do, they get harassed (witness it often). There is no movie screens, other than Wednesday's at Tides. No arcades. No events directed at them outside of surfing. No mini golf. Nothing for them to do outside of walk around with their parents and mill around on the beach.

Also, if I live in Summerville and I want to go to the beach for the day, and I have to choose between a community that takes the time to sweep the beach and keep it clean and one that doesn't, I'm probably headed to the cleaner one, since I cannot enjoy my beverage of choice at either. And why sit in crazy traffic on a small two lane road, just to get a parking ticket because 1/4" of my front tire might be touching the pavement?

Yes, the situation was getting precarious. However, going from one extreme to the other never seems to be the best solution. And who does it hurt? Not the drunks, but rather the businesses like our Folly favorite Bert's Market who rely on the business.

Folly Beach, we can do better than this, and still keep our unique offering. Let's think logically about it. And for those who are tired of it and say Folly has gone to hell, they'll probably get tired of where they move to sooner or later and say the same thing there.

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Posted by follyollyincomefree on July 18, 2012 at 9:25 AM
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