It stinks to high heaven.<\/p>\n
Mayor Eric Adams is burning Albany for marijuana legalization bringing the sticky-icky smell of weed \u201ceverywhere\u201d in New York City.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it should be relegated to certain areas that you could smoke marijuana, not throughout the entire street, because you do smell it everywhere,\u201d Adams told The Post\u2019s Miranda Devine on the latest episode of \u201cPod Force One.\u201d <\/p>\n
Mayor Eric Adams said smoking marijuana in public should be more relegated. Tamara Beckwith<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s one of the negative impacts of our cannabis law that the state government passed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Smoking marijuana is legal in most places where New Yorkers can smoke or vape tobacco, with some further exceptions for inside motor vehicles, restaurants, federal property and most public parks, under the state\u2019s recreational cannabis law passed in 2021.<\/p>\n
Every week, Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington. Subscribe here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Adams\u2019 public pot puffing pooh-poohing came as he argued that tackling quality-of-life issues such as street homelessness and public urination will make New Yorkers feel safer.<\/p>\n The smell of weed is \u201ceverywhere,\u201d Adams complained. Getty Images<\/p>\n A revival of \u201cbroken windows\u201d policing and cracking down on disorder has been a major plank of Adams\u2019 public safety policy, which he has been touting during his re-election battle as an independent.<\/p>\n But his comments about constant wafting weed smell contrast with the mayor\u2019s enthusiastic embrace of the legal cannabis industry.<\/p>\n As recently as Saturday, the mayor visited a legal weed festival in Harlem and declared he wants the Big Apple to be the \u201ccannabis capital of the globe,\u201d AMNY reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hizzoner also laughed off a record-breaking surge of odor complaints during the summer of 2022 by saying it wasn\u2019t sun-ripened garbage that he was smelling.<\/p>\n The Post\u2019s Miranda Devine interviews Mayor Adams in the Peach Room at Gracie Mansion on July 9, 2025. Tamara Beckwith<\/p>\n \u201cThe No. 1 thing I smell right now is pot. It\u2019s like everybody\u2019s smoking a joint now,\u201d Adams said at the time<\/a>, chuckling.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know, everybody has a joint.\u201d<\/p>\n Adams \u2014 who launched a sweeping crackdown on illegal pot shops to help protect the burgeoning legal weed industry \u2014 also showed he\u2019s not adverse to whiffing reefer.<\/p>\n Full Episode<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A reveller smokes marijuana out of a bong in Washington Square Park on April 20, 2025 in New York City. Getty Images<\/p>\n He drew laughs last year when he took a big, seemingly admiring sniff <\/a>of a bag stuffed with illegal weed, moments before it was incinerated.<\/p>\n But lest the city\u2019s potheads think Adams is Tommy Chong-ing it in Gracie Mansion, he has claimed to not partake<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cNo, I don\u2019t smoke,\u201d he told The Daily Show in 2023, although he jokingly copped to getting it secondhand. <\/p>\n Marijuana can be smoked publicly most places that tobacco can be, under the state\u2019s legal cannabis law. James Keivom<\/p>\n \u201cAll you got to do is walk down the block. Secondhand is everywhere now.\u201d<\/p>\n Adams added he didn\u2019t want children smoking marijuana on the way to school or eating cannabis \u201cgummy bears and other bulls\u2013t.\u201d<\/p>\n