My friends and I live in a state with legal recreational cannabis laws.
The laws are particularly lenient and almost everyone do not get in trouble for using cannabis, even in public.
As long as you are being discreet, the cops usually do not care if someone is smoking a joint or hitting a vape pen! Unfortunately, the same is not true everywhere; Some CA cities have different rules and laws regarding marijuana. My friends and I went on a deep sea fishing boat while all of us were going to see San Francisco. Every one of us had our vape pen in our pockets. Every one of us were trying to be discreet, but all of us were also trying to stay medicated. I could odor someone smoking weed on the other side of the boat, although I wasn’t trying to get anyone into trouble… When all of us stopped and dropped anchor, the boat captain came downstairs and I heard a commotion on the left side of the boat. The commotion only lasted a few hours and after that I started tying bait to our poles. My neighbor asked one of the deckhands what happened and she told us that someone was putting a pre-rolled joint out on the side of the boat. The captain didn’t care if all of us were smoking marijuana, but she wasn’t going to let someone vandalize her boat with a marijuana cigarette. The native San Francisco resident had to rest in the captain’s quarters while almost everyone else enjoyed their fishing. The woman did not get a refund on her currency and she was lucky the Coast Guard wasn’t waiting for him when she got back to the dock.