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PARK LIFE

RE: “The High Life” [The Mercury Cannabis Issue, April 15], in which we prepare for the impending legalization of recreational cannabis use.

DEAR MERCURY—The Portland Mercury cover for April 15 shows a user-couple puffing up clouds of pot smoke in Washington Park, which is a perfect demonstration of how potheads adamantly intend to ignore all or any of the restrictions that are a part of the new pot law as agreed upon its passage. Instead, even [before] now non-users have always been subject to the rude and unhealthful exposure to secondhand THC smoke in every public place available…

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Marjorie Skinner is the Portland Mercury's Managing Editor, author of the weekly Sold Out column chronicling the area's independent fashion and retail industry, and a frequent contributor to the film and...