People who have never visited states where marijuana is legal might imagine them as places where pot smokers loll about in public parks or street corners as they toke away on shared joints.
If so, they’re wrong. Even though 21 states have legalized the recreational use of cannabis, that doesn’t mean residents there are free to smoke in public. A few states allow licensed cannabis retailers to operate “lounges” for consumption, but that’s as public as it gets for most pot smokers in the U.S. The only legal place for them to get high by smoking is at home.
