honestly though, there are many places in the U.S. that you can go, cheef, and cops don't care to bother you...
where I use to live at, you'd always see people smoking in public, I would walk down the street with a spliff in my hand, I would seriously light up right in the bar... I used to bartend and see off duty cops came in while other people where smoking and wouldn't even make a move or nothing....
I can recall 3 times where an officer seen me smoking weed and not once was I given a citation. Dead serious. The city is just a old old old hippy town. Police just are linient about some things in different areas.