I know it’s legal in a lot of places but not in NYC, although you’d never know it. Our “pothead” mayor has clearly given strict orders not to make weed (buying, selling or using) any kind of a crime! Heck, even cops in his security detail have been found stoned on duty.

Besides the gross skunky smell, I don’t get how everyone is OK with the loss of productivity and most especially with driving while high. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked by some huge delivery truck parked at a light and the driver is smoking a joint. If the streets reeked of alcohol the way they do of pot, I don’t think people would be so blase about it.

Read on below for more examples of how pot is taking over NYC – and the country! The number of daily pot smokers in the U.S. has doubled over the last 12 years – great for the cannabis industry, not so great for those of us who can’t stand the smell and everything else that goes with it.

Last year, the First Annual Ganja Games were held in Greenpoint, Brooklyn – organized by a group of “ganjapreneurs.”

BuzzFeed ran a piece on the 15 things every stoner should do in NYC – all food-centric from hitting up Smorgasburg or Roberta’s in Brooklyn to finding munchies at Penn Station and Grand Central to staying in and ordering from Seamless.

According to the CDC, every day in the United States, 7,000 Americans try cannabis for the first time. There are at least 10 million more weed smokers than there were 12 years ago. And the number of daily pot smokers in the U.S. doubled over that time period.