Smoke if you got ’em — just not here.
One Long Island town passed a ban on smoking pot in public — a move applauded by residents fed-up with the ever-present smell of marijuana who said “there’s a time and place” for the recreational drug.
The city of Glen Cove is apparently the first municipality in the state to enact a ban since New York made weed legal, with the City Council approving the prohibition at a contentious meeting Tuesday night.
“You can smoke marijuana in your house, in your yard, in your friend’s yard — we are banning it from public places like our beaches, our stadium, our parks, places we bring our children,” city Mayor Pamela Panzenbeck said, according to video of the meeting.
Under the new law, anybody caught smoking pot in public spaces within city limits outside

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