The U.S. Open Championship is happening at Chambers Bay in Washington this weekend. Given that marijuana is legal in the state, SB Nation’s Brian Floyd inquired about the tournament’s policy:
Turns out fans are allowed to come through the security gates with marijuana — bags are run through scanners and anyone entering the grounds has to walk through metals detectors after emptying pockets at checkpoints around the perimeter of the course. The simple answer was yes, people attending the U.S. Open in Tacoma are allowed to possess marijuana on the grounds at Chambers Bay. If they come to the gates with it, volunteers were told to let them go through. This was, unsurprisingly, a specific point volunteers were briefed on before U.S. Open week.
However, fans are unable to smoke weed on the grounds because, while possession is legal, consumption in public is not. My guess is that in five or 10 years this’ll be the case just about everywhere in the United States.
[Photo via Getty; H/T BSO]
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