It looks like Governor Hochul is gearing up for a full-on war against tobacco.
As The Post reported this week, after trying to ban menthol cigarettes in New York, she now looks set to try to ban the sale of tobacco products outright.
You may be in favor of that, or you may not. But here is something I cannot understand: If the sale of tobacco products is to be made illegal, what are New Yorkers meant to mix with their recently legalized marijuana?
Thanks to the law signed two years ago it is now legal for anyone above the age of 21 to be in possession of 3 ounces of cannabis or 24 ounces of concentrated cannabis in New York State.
But this makes no sense. Why legalize pot and try to get rid of tobacco? Does Hochul want New Yorkers to just smoke the stuff straight? I’d love to know.
What a weird set of priorities.
Yet in some ways it is typical.
For the more you look at the Democrat’s vision of life in New York the more you understand the strange maze of contradictions that this city is becoming.
A “smoke shop” recently opened a couple of doors along from me.
As they have opened almost up on almost every single block in the city.
The result is that people loiter all day outside my building smoking pot, hanging around and often zonked out of their minds.
The smell wafts everywhere.
