I suspect that Ehrenreich was writing for an audience that sees recreational pot use as one of those "technically illegal but who cares" crimes, like jaywalking or driving five miles over the speed limit.
The smell of marijuana comes out of my next-door neighbor's house on a daily basis. One of the guys who lives there has a criminal record. We are literally two blocks from the nearest police station. And yet nobody in that house is getting busted for marijuana possession (even before MA partially decriminalized it).
The smell of marijuana comes out of my next-door neighbor's house on a daily basis. One of the guys who lives there has a criminal record. We are literally two blocks from the nearest police station. And yet nobody in that house is getting busted for marijuana possession (even before MA partially decriminalized it).