New York Travelogue 2023 — Part One
<p>I’m back from my first visit to New York, the city of my birth, since before the pandemic. I wasn’t out of Penn Station more than a couple of minutes before learning that life in Manhattan has changed.</p>
<p>For one thing, you can’t go a block without a whiff of pot smoke. New York State legalized recreational marijuana in 2021. Although weed is supposed to be sold only through state-licensed outlets, the new and evidently flawed licensing process is moving so slowly that sellers are setting up bodega-like storefronts and daring law enforcement to stop them, which to date law enforcement has opted not to do. Hence the ubiquitous scent — most pervasive, it seems from a couple of experiences, around Madison Square Garden when the hockey team is playing.</p>
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