"I started realizing a lot of my family smokes weed, and they're all very successful adults," said "Jake," a 29-year-old TV writer in Midtown and small-business owner who regularly tokes up.

"So I was like, 'Hey, maybe weed's not too bad.'

"I feel a lot more comfortable being a smoker now that it's less enforced."

In 2011, the NYPD busted 50,000 people for lighting up in the five boroughs. By 2015, that number had dropped by 68 percent, to just 16,000.

During the same time, recreational pot use was legalized in eight states, and a law allowing the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes passed in New York after years of lobbying Gov. Cuomo.

A downtown Manhattan mom said she's even cool with lighting up during play dates.

"One time, [a friend and I] smoked and then let our 4-year-olds paint my daughter's play table with nontoxic paint . . . [Smoking pot] lets me be more creative and more in tune with my kids," the mom said.