Legalizing Marijuana Is the Right First Step. Now Let's Legalize Its Use in Public.

Open-container laws have always targeted the poor and marginalized. States and cities need to permit marijuana use in public.

ecreational marijuana use has been legal in Seattle since 2012, but I still felt like I was getting away with something when I walked into a dispensary there this fall. There was a bouncer waiting behind a roped-off entryway on the otherwise quiet Capitol Hill side street. He passed my driver’s license through a small digital reader, which he said was meant to catch fake IDs, but which other dispensaries have used to log customers’ identities and track purchases. The staff inside was friendly, but sampling the product was strictly prohibited. In fact, there was almost nowhere to legally smoke what they were selling—not the sidewalk outside, not at the park a few blocks away, and definitely not in the patio smoking section at the

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