{"id":444061,"date":"2025-12-13T08:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T08:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/444061\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T08:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T08:03:22","slug":"hallelujah-hope-for-getting-the-stench-of-weed-off-new-yorks-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/444061\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallelujah! Hope for getting the stench of weed off New York&#8217;s streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s hand it to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glencovechamber.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glen Cove<\/a>, the Long Island town that just <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/11\/us-news\/long-island-city-bans-smoking-pot-in-public-as-stink-weary-residents-say-there-is-a-time-and-a-place\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banned pot-smoking in public<\/a> areas; if only New York City would follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not prudes, but far too much of Gotham now <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/03\/us-news\/nyc-rehab-centers-overwhelmed-as-legal-weed-fuels-higher-wave-of-addiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reeks of skunkweed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s terrible for little kids, and not good for older ones; it\u2019s offensive to most adults and a signal of disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Our laws (and law enforcement) discourage public alcohol consumption, and booze doesn\u2019t even stink.<\/p>\n<p>Even in the other states that have legalized marijuana, bans against toking in public remain largely intact: Tolerating private vice is one thing; handing over public parks, playgrounds, beaches and sidewalks is something else entirely.<\/p>\n<p>What actually makes Glen Cove a New York first is that it banned reefer (with fines of $100 for a first offense, $250 thereafter) even in areas where it allows tobacco smoking; that\u2019s eminently defensible as pot smoke (especially from modern weed) is far more pungent.<\/p>\n<p>And if the courts find some reason to toss this out, the Legislature absolutely needs to grant localities the right to follow Glen Cove.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Get high in your own space; leave the rest of us alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s hand it to Glen Cove, the Long Island town that just banned pot-smoking in public areas; if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":444062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[2106,5229,4691,46601,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,13047,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-444061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-alcohol","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-editorial","11":"tag-marijuana-legalization","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-opinion","19":"tag-quality-of-life","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115711220371932679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}