New York City – home to Broadway, skyscrapers, some of the best food on the planet, and now, smoking weed in public?<\/p>\n
On any given day, in just the span of few hours, a handful of people can be seen smoking weed on the busy sidewalks of downtown.<\/p>\n
Last November, Mayor de Blasio decriminalized low-level marijuana possession, though many New Yorkers have seen that as actual legalization.<\/p>\n
You can still get arrested for lighting up in public – as one woman learned when Police Commissioner Bill Bratton saw her and gave her a warning.<\/p>\n
Mayor de Blasio introduced a new NYPD policy, which took effect last November 14. It mandates that a person\u00a0 possessing less than 25 grams of marijuana gets a ticket instead of being arrested \u2014 as long as they have an ID and no outstanding warrants. But smoking weed is still a crime.<\/p>\n
Says de Blasio, \u201cIf you\u2019re smoking it in public, we will potentially arrest you.\u201d \u00a0 Depending on the circumstances, cops can issue a \u00a0warning or make an arrest. It\u2019s up to their discretion.<\/p>\n
To learn more, check out this article<\/a>\u00a0at The New York Post.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n