Eric Adams isn't high on the smell of marijuana ‘everywhere' in NYC: ‘I think it should be relegated to certain areas'
Mayor Eric Adams is burning Albany for marijuana legalization bringing the sticky-icky smell of weed 'everywhere' in New York City.
'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 told The Post's Miranda Devine on the latest episode of 'Pod Force One.'
5 Mayor Eric Adams said smoking marijuana in public should be more relegated.
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'I think that's one of the negative impacts of our cannabis law that the state government passed.'
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's recreational cannabis law passed in 2021.
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Adams' 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.
5 The smell of weed is 'everywhere,' Adams complained.
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A revival of 'broken windows' policing and cracking down on disorder has been a major plank of Adams' public safety policy, which he has been touting during his re-election battle as an independent.
But his comments about constant wafting weed smell contrast with the mayor's enthusiastic embrace of the legal cannabis industry.
As recently as Saturday, the mayor visited a legal weed festival in Harlem and declared he wants the Big Apple to be the 'cannabis capital of the globe,' AMNY reported.
Hizzoner also laughed off a record-breaking surge of odor complaints during the summer of 2022 by saying it wasn't sun-ripened garbage that he was smelling.
5 The Post's Miranda Devine interviews Mayor Adams in the Peach Room at Gracie Mansion on July 9, 2025.
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'The No. 1 thing I smell right now is pot. It's like everybody's smoking a joint now,' Adams said at the time, chuckling.
'You know, everybody has a joint.'
Adams — who launched a sweeping crackdown on illegal pot shops to help protect the burgeoning legal weed industry — also showed he's not adverse to whiffing reefer.
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5 A reveller smokes marijuana out of a bong in Washington Square Park on April 20, 2025 in New York City.
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He drew laughs last year when he took a big, seemingly admiring sniff of a bag stuffed with illegal weed, moments before it was incinerated.
But lest the city's potheads think Adams is Tommy Chong-ing it in Gracie Mansion, he has claimed to not partake.
'No, I don't smoke,' he told The Daily Show in 2023, although he jokingly copped to getting it secondhand.
5 Marijuana can be smoked publicly most places that tobacco can be, under the state's legal cannabis law.
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'All you got to do is walk down the block. Secondhand is everywhere now.'
Adams added he didn't want children smoking marijuana on the way to school or eating cannabis 'gummy bears and other bulls–t.'
His concern for children taking drugs goes way back — as his infamous, much-mocked PSA from 2011 proves.
'Something simple as a baby doll' could be a place to 'secrete, or hide' drugs, Adams warned parents in the video, demonstrating with a giant bag of presumably fake weed.
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