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As of today, those lucky bastards to the north can now smoke pot legally and, in public it appears, without fear of retribution from the cops.

In related Washingtonians-are-now-treated-like-actual-adult news, same sex couples were able to marry today, too.

Read about it all in this AP story.

This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2012.

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Gay Marriage and Pot: Washington Officially Going to Hell As of Today

by Erin Foote Marlowe, The Source - Bend, Oregon
December 6, 2012

<h1>Gay Marriage and Pot: Washington Officially Going to Hell As of Today</h1> <p class="byline">by Erin Foote Marlowe, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />December 6, 2012</p> <p><div class="blogImageCenter"><img src="https://media2.fdncms.com/bend/imager/gay-marriage-and-pot-washington-officially-going-to-hell-as-of-today/u/original/2197255/1354827245-pott.jpg" alt="pott.jpg" title="" width="100" height="67" /></div> <p>As of today, those lucky bastards to the north can now smoke pot legally and, in public it appears, without fear of retribution from the cops. </p> <p>In related Washingtonians-are-now-treated-like-actual-adult news, same sex couples were able to marry today, too. </p> <p><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hvo8u8Bb7-1_GaKFD8qHZMXSCRFw?docId=93628df3c7be4ce8bc24947488811469 " target="_blank">Read about it all in this AP story. </a></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/gay-marriage-and-pot-washington-officially-going-to-hell-as-of-today-2197253/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=13633&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/gay-marriage-and-pot-washington-officially-going-to-hell-as-of-today-2197253/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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