The Brief
- Mayor Adams says smoking marijuana should be restricted to specific areas of the city, due to the smell.
- “I think it should be relegated to certain areas that you could smoke marijuana,” Adams said.
- Under New York state’s recreational cannabis law, smoking marijuana is legal in most places where New Yorkers can smoke or vape tobacco.
NEW YORK CITY – New York City Mayor Eric Adams says smoking marijuana should be restricted to specific areas of the city because of the smell.
Local perspective:
“I think it should be relegated to certain areas that you could smoke marijuana, not throughout the entire street, because you do smell it everywhere,” Adams said.
The mayor made the comments on The New York Post’s “Pod Force One” podcast. He thinks the state legislature should have imposed restrictions when it legalized weed.…