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Squaring Off

“Millions of joints have been smoked on those walls,” said the head of Philadelphia, Pa.’s chapter of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. But the Friends of Rittenhouse Square aren’t so friendly to pot users: weed smoking was one of two reasons the organization cited for banning sitting on the walls. Mayor Jim Kenney countermanded that ban. “Sit where you want,” he posted on Twitter; the police said the penalty for pot possession is the same in Rittenhouse Square as the rest of the city: a $25 fine. “There’s no standing order to target the Square,” said a police spokesman. Activists planned a “Sittenhouse” and a “toke-in.” Meanwhile, the mayor, 58, has one request: don’t “smoke weed so obviously that you scare olds my age.” (AC/Philadelphia Inquirer) ...You mean people whose earliest memories are of the 1960s?