So since the start of July marijuana’s been legal in Oregon now but in the same sense of beer - you can have, consume (but not technically in public, though that’s been basically accepted for both for decades if unobtrusive), give away, and produce it, but sales are to be regulated (under a system that doesn’t exist yet and won’t for maybe a year, though the “medical” dispensaries are apparently going to start selling to the public in October and there are open-access dispensaries across the river in Vancouver).

Which, crossed with Portland’s weird gift economy culture, has made for some disorienting scenes - I’ve been out drinking where a guy just started throwing joints down in front of all the strangers at the bar, I have friends who were stopped at a red light where the randoms in the next car just passed them a loaded bowl through the windows and drove off. Guys at public festivals walking around directly in front of the cops just holding up big bags and asking if anyone wants some. And then there’s shit like this, because of course there is.