What Happens to the 'Weed Spot' Now That Weed Is Legal?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Though she admits that she does nothing different now, the fact that it's legal to smoke marijuana grants her a certain level of assurance, "to smoke and be looking straight at a police officer and be Black."
45% : She took her first toke of marijuana while playing hooky as a student at Brooklyn Tech High School, and she suggested that how she had been treated as a smoker over the years hadn't changed very much.
44% : But there was one instantly observable difference: While it is not yet legal to sell or buy marijuana in New York, smoking a joint on the street is not a crime anymore.
40% : But after they split and he moved in with his parents -- not fans of marijuana -- he started going instead to Prospect Park.
40% : "We could've smoked on the Parkway," referring to Eastern Parkway, where he lives in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, but before legalization that left him vulnerable to law enforcement.
40% : She believes that if more people are forthcoming about smoking marijuana, it will whittle away at society's long-held negative associations.

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