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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 As Marijuana Laws Relax, Smokers in New York Turn Bolder 🌿As Marijuana Laws Relax, Smokers in New York Turn Bolder
It wafts down the pavement, an unmistakable stench more Haight-Ashbury than New York — the tang of marijuana smoke in the city’s streets. If the smell (and the lightheadedness a passer-by may feel) is anything to judge by, lighting up and strolling around seems increasingly common in pockets of Brooklyn, on side streets in Manhattan and in other public spaces.
Street smokers say they are emboldened by laws that have legalized the recreational use of marijuana in other parts of the country and by the relatively low-key rhetoric of New York’s leaders, including the police commissioner, about the drug.
Interviews with people who said they had smoked marijuana in public yielded a general sentiment that they felt much more secure doing so today than they would have not long ago.
Still, in New York, smoking marijuana in public remains an arrestable offense, though the policy for possessing, but not lighting,...
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