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Eric Adams isn't high on the smell of marijuana ‘everywhere' in NYC: ‘I think it should be relegated to certain areas'
Eric Adams isn't high on the smell of marijuana ‘everywhere' in NYC: ‘I think it should be relegated to certain areas'

New York Post

time2 days ago

  • Politics
  • New York Post

Eric Adams isn't high on the smell of marijuana ‘everywhere' in NYC: ‘I think it should be relegated to certain areas'

It stinks to high heaven. 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. Tamara Beckwith '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. Every week, Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington. Subscribe here! 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. Getty Images 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. Tamara Beckwith '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. Full Episode 5 A reveller smokes marijuana out of a bong in Washington Square Park on April 20, 2025 in New York City. Getty Images 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. James Keivom '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.

GUY BENSON SHOW: Miranda Devine Reacts to Hunter Biden's 'Uncut' Channel 5 Interview
GUY BENSON SHOW: Miranda Devine Reacts to Hunter Biden's 'Uncut' Channel 5 Interview

Fox News

time4 days ago

  • Politics
  • Fox News

GUY BENSON SHOW: Miranda Devine Reacts to Hunter Biden's 'Uncut' Channel 5 Interview

Miranda Devine, Fox News Contributor, NY Post Columnist, Author of 'THE BIG GUY: How a President and His Son Sold Out America,' and host of Pod Force One with Miranda Devine, joined the Guy Benson Show to give her first reaction to Hunter Biden's viral interview with Andrew Callaghan of Channel 5. Hunter Biden slammed many in the Democratic party for their treatment of his family and his father, and Miranda called his reaction 'uncut.' Miranda and Guy also discussed released information about the 2016 Russia collusion hoax, and you can listen to the full interview below. Listen to the full interview below: Listen to the full podcast below:

House Speaker Mike Johnson tells 'Pod Force One' he has no plans to run for president
House Speaker Mike Johnson tells 'Pod Force One' he has no plans to run for president

New York Post

time16-07-2025

  • Politics
  • New York Post

House Speaker Mike Johnson tells 'Pod Force One' he has no plans to run for president

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is not interested in making a future bid for the presidency, he told The Post's Miranda Devine on the latest episode of 'Pod Force One,' out Wednesday, despite a meteoric rise up the Republican ranks in the House after serving just a few terms. 'I don't think about that,' Johnson (R-La.) responded when asked if he could see himself in the role one day, adding that the job of commander in chief was a 'no' for him — at least for now. 'I think this job, there's probably a reason I think there may be only one speaker, James K. Polk, who became president after that, because the job is so all consuming and encompassing that it wears everybody out,' Johnson told Devine. Every week, Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington. Subscribe here! 'I mean, look, I'll serve in any capacity I want, but I don't think about that. Never aspired to it. For that matter, I didn't aspire to this job,' he revealed. 'I'm just trying to be faithful in it.' Polk served as the 11th US president, a Democrat who occupied the Oval Office from 1845 to 1849. Prior to that, he was the governor of Tennessee and 13th Speaker of the US House of Representatives. Johnson replaced former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy in October 2023 after three weeks of infighting and a slate of other GOP candidates failed to produce a successor. He was first elected to the lower chamber in November 2016. 4 Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is not interested in making a future bid for the presidency, he told The Post's Miranda Devine on the latest episode of 'Pod Force One,' out Wednesday. Tamara Beckwith 4 'The America First agenda is no longer a slogan. It's now the law of the land, because of the Big Beautiful Bill, and we got more to do,' Johnson said. AFP via Getty Images Earlier in the interview, the reluctant speaker — who was unanimously elected by House Republicans — extolled Trump as a head of state whose breakneck pace is hard to match. 'He is dialed in like no commander in chief has been in recent memory. I don't know that there is a precedent for a president who's so engaged,' said Johnson, who is second in line to the office behind only the vice president. 'He's very unique that way, and the country needs it right now,' the Louisiana Republican told Devine. 'And the America First agenda is no longer a slogan. It's now the law of the land, because of the Big Beautiful Bill, and we got more to do.' 4 Earlier in the interview, the reluctant speaker — who was unanimously elected by House Republicans — extolled Trump as a head of state whose breakneck pace is hard to match. AFP via Getty Images Trump had been so excited by the items crammed into the GOP megabill he even asked Johnson if the Republicans could add an unlikely punctuation mark to the legislation's text. 'He passed it around to us on a piece of paper in big bold font, One Big Beautiful Bill. And he goes, 'Now, can we put an exclamation point?'' the House speaker recalled, adding, 'I said, 'Sir, no, we can't do an exclamation point. That's not a thing in legislation.'' Johnson also spoke about the future he foresees for the post-Trump Republican Party. 4 'He passed it around to us on a piece of paper in big bold font, One Big Beautiful Bill. And he goes, 'Now, can we put an exclamation point?'' the House speaker recalled, adding, 'I said, 'Sir, no, we can't do an exclamation point.'' Tamara Beckwith 'I think the movement goes forward,' he went on. 'It won't be the same without [Trump], but he's done a recalibration of our party in many ways. We brought in new demographics, big groups of people that have not been with us probably since the early '80s under Reagan.' Full episode 'We're a working class party as we should be, and we represent the core principles, and I'm one of the people who's trying to keep us tied to the moorings,' he said. 'The core principles of our party are the core principles of America.' Trump has spoken highly of Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as potential followers who could lead the MAGA movement — potentially in a 2028 presidential bid.

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