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Not to nitpick but smelling like pot is not a crime.

Smoking in public parks is

Smelling like pot in a park doesn't mean you smoked in that park though, you can walk through a park smelling like cigarettes too.

OK for the pedants let me be more clear - "NYPD writes tickets to people drinking beers in the park but not to smokers, for reasons".

Anecdote lines up with actual data from GOOG: In a three-year period, the NYPD issued a total of 440 tickets for public smoking violations.

vs

In the period between January and March of this year, the NYPD wrote over 7,000 tickets for public drinking. This represents a significant increase compared to the same period in 2022, with roughly 5,000 more tickets issued.

You'd need to know the frequency of each crime to determine if enforcement was different.

But smoking pot is equally unhealthy as smoking tobacco

Nope, that's a plain lie. Cancer risks don't line up between the two at all.

https://www.lung.org/quit-smoking/smoking-facts/health-effec...

You're right - it might actually be worse, but is still not well studied.

Ctrl+F "cancer" 1 result, in the footer, unrelated to the page content

So what you actually meant was "it's definitely not as bad as cigarettes" given your lack of evidence despite the link ? Or what, this makes no sense

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