Credit: Pete Gamlin

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Pete Gamlin

In Seattle, you can legally buy weed, but there’s almost no- where you can legally smoke it.

If you own your own house (praise be unto you, oh privileged and wealthy one), you obviously can light up a joint in your living room—and by the time you’re down to the roach, your house will have appreciated by another $1,000. But for the rest of us, including tourists who have come to visit expressly because they want to experience our legal weed, enjoying a joint involves an obligation to break the law.

Which makes no sense.

Lester Black is a former staff writer for The Stranger, where he wrote about Seattle news, cannabis, and beer. He is sometimes sober.