During an April 8 WOND radio appearance, Mark Giannantonio, CEO of Resorts AC, took a well-deserved shot at the heavy marijuana use on the Atlantic City Boardwalk.
Mark is also President of the local Casino Assn.
LISTEN:
Illegal Public Marijuana Consumption on Atlantic City Boardwalk.
Giannantonio: If we stop the marijuana on the boardwalk, I mean, that’s a big thing the casino association has been talking about with our elected officials and our police. That should be zero tolerance.
- Ocean City: you don’t smell marijuana like you do in Atlantic City.
- Giannantonio emphasizes illegality of smoking on Boardwalk: It’s a public park. It’s against the law to smoke anything on the Boardwalk. We need to enforce the law.
- Mayor Marty Small and Police Chief James Sarkos promised change.
NJ legalized recreational cannabis. CRDA and Atlantic City are on pace to have more than 40 Cannabis operations in the city / tourism zone.
At the same time, NJ decriminalized many former cannabis offences.
NJ Gov Murphy also made it very difficult for police officers to enforce the law.
AC Mayor Marty Small very vocal in support of AC becoming East Coast Capital of Cannabis.
I’d rather see weed on the boardwalk than booze. How about the encampments under the boardwalk? The weed does not bother me one bit.
All these Marijuana places. How many do you really need for a relatively small town? What type of people does this attract?
I work in Atlantic City. They come in and roll their pot in cigars. They mix it in. Then smoke in the casino. You think it’s a cigar, but it’s really marijuana. They call them ‘blunts’.
I constantly clean up cigar tobacco they take out and replace with marijuana.
The AC boardwalk is not family-friendly anymore. It’s full of homeless, drug addicts, and panhandlers.
It’s not the Boardwalk of years ago. That’s why most families go to Ocean City or Wildwood.
Atlantic City needs a new direction or it will not prosper.
Lance Landgraf is the Over-Development Overlord. Too many cannabis stores in AC.
Landgraf is a Ventnor Commissioner.
Our once charming cottages and majestic homes are being destroyed, replaced with cookie-cutter townhouses.
This Ventnor overdevelopment is making our once charming community unrecognized. I am very sad about this.
Atlantic City turned into one big SH*T HOLE! You can’t even walk the boardwalk with your family without the strong smell of weed.
Children should not be subjected to this. The Mayor condones this activity. I think we have a cannabis store on every block.
Ironically it’s hard to get in your car to drive to the weed store without your car falling apart due to the condition of our roads in AC.
But, let’s go buy a $500,000 bus…because that’s what we really need.
Put the bus to good use by having tours to all of the cannabis stores.
When the tour is over you can take a stroll on the boardwalk and get a free high. Good times!