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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 New Yorkers are smoking pot in public like it’s no big deal 🌿New Yorkers are smoking pot in public like it’s no big deal
The city is getting higher by the day — and we’re not talking about Manhattan skyscrapers.
In the span of a few hours in broad daylight last week, The Post encountered six people smoking reefer on busy downtown sidewalks.
Mayor Bill de Blasio decriminalized low-level marijuana possession last November — but many New Yorkers evidently mistook that for de-facto legalization.
You can still get cuffed for smoking a joint in public — as a female stoner was warned recently when Police Commissioner Bill Bratton saw her toking on Wall Street.
De Blasio introduced a new NYPD policy, effective Nov. 14 last year, mandating that a person possessing less than 25 grams of marijuana gets a ticket instead of being arrested — as long as they have ID and no outstanding warrants. But smoking weed is still a crime.
“If you’re smoking it in public, we will potentially arrest you,” said...
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