So since the start of July marijuana\u2019s been legal in Oregon now but in the same sense of beer - you can have, consume (but not technically in public, though that\u2019s 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\u2019t exist yet and won\u2019t for maybe a year, though the \u201cmedical\u201d 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\u2019s weird gift economy culture, has made for some disorienting scenes - I\u2019ve 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\u2019s shit like this, because of course there is.
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