" what can be worst than a fart"

As I was seeing him while he was an in-patient with a room shared with another patient, suddenly his expression changed. He was obviously uncomfortable which was supported by  his expressions of being very upset about something. I asked him, are you in pain. He said, not really. How about your breathing, he said not too bad. Then what is bothering  you, I asked.

He answerd me with rather a question. What can be worst than a fart?

I did not knew what to say. I smiled and replied, you can tell me, I am your doctor.

He said  that the man on next bed has visitors who come after smoking pot, its odor is all over them and he never liked skunk odor. No one likes it.

It is true that pot has some thiols, what may be associated with skunk spray, but I am not sure as I am no expert. He kept talking about; why people don't respect other people choices too when they demand their right to chose;  life style, food, smoking and freedom of speech.

To some, recreational use of substances exceed the threshold of choices others too have, like breathing non adultered clean air. You may not smell  fresh roses or blooming orchids freshness all the times. You  may not smell of rain forest often, but how about breathing neutral clean air.   Air with no contamination of burning  pot or tobacco: no one wants to have others spit then why breath others foul air.

To others, life cannot be easy as winning one battle of choices bring them face to face with other fights and realities of life; chronic pains, anxiety, disability, single parenthood, social inequality, issues of relationship with family-fellow being-God. There are many questions but few answers for a curious mind. Probably  recreational use of anything will not change the ground realities of ones situation but it may buy time to fight it out another day. In the grand scheme of life both suffer as how pot smells to non pot smokers, why they smoke pot and is there is something else can be there. There are many questions again.