One down 2,900-plus to go.
The citys in this mess thanks to the total botch Albany made of New Yorks legal pot rollout.
I knew what to expect when it came to passing homeless crackheads on every block.
I was prepared to not have a car and rely on public transportation everywhere I went.
But I had no idea what was coming my way in terms of smoke shops.
For one, the sheer number of them is astonishing.
Neither of those numbers seem high enough.
It’s surely closer to a few trillion.
I have no idea which ones shops are illegal and which ones aren’t.
I have less of a clue how this many smoke shops can possibly stay in business all at once.
It’s truly fascinating how prevalent they are.
They’ll sell you more than just weed too.
The shrooms bars were definitely illegal.
But luckily, the smoke shops had a full-proof plan.
They simply stored their illegal shrooms barsunderneaththe counter.
Nobody is going to find them there.
“Those just get us in trouble”, he said.
So somehow the cops must have found their super secret hiding place.
Each smoke shop will also have an entire section of a wall devoted to kratom.
Kratom is low-key the most fucked up thing any of these smoke shops are selling.
It’s essentially legal heroin.
It has the exact same effects as opiates.
You’ll get addicted to it the same way as opiates.
You’ll go though a withdrawal that’s just as bad.
But the people behind kratom are equally as bad as the drug companies.
They’re probably worse.
At least if you get a subscription for pain killers they cap you at a certain amount.
At least there’s a “doctor” involved.
you might buy all the damn kratom you want.
They gotta make it illegal.
Sorry for the kratom tangent there.
I just really hate the people who sell that shit.
I’ve never tested the NYC smoke shop waters when it comes to anything beyond that.
The old me would have.
Would let you throw it all on a credit card too.
All of New York City is basically just an open air drug market.
Either way, Mayor Eric Adams claims that these illegal pot shop’s days are numbered.
To me that seems like a futile task.
You’re not just going to get illegal marijuana off the streets of New York.
I can’t help but think there are better things we could be spending our resources on.
Good luck getting that pot off the streets.
That’ll get this city back to it’s glory days.
Keep those drugs out of the children’s bedrooms.
