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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBloomberg rambles incoherently against Medical Marijuana & un-named phamecudicals
Bloomberg's statements come "a day after the NY state assembly approved a bill
decriminalizing small amounts of the drug".
NYC Mayor Bloomberg: Medical marijuana one of the great hoaxes of all time
By Arturo Garcia
Friday, May 31, 2013 17:09 EDT
New York City Michael Bloomberg lashed out at the medical marijuana community during his weekly radio show on Friday.
Medical, my foot, Bloomberg told WOR-AM host John Gambling. There is no medical. This is one of the great hoaxes of all times. The bottom line is, Im told marijuana is much stronger today than it was 20, 30 years ago.
The mayors statements came a day after the state assembly approved a bill decriminalizing small amounts of the drug.
Bloomberg quickly added that he had no personal experience smoking marijuana in recent years. But as Gothamist noted on Friday, he has smoked the drug in his past; in 2002 he said he regretted telling New York magazine, You bet I did. And I enjoyed it.
Besides his problems with the alleged potency of modern marijuana, Bloomberg said he opposed legalized marijuana sales because drug dealers would only be encouraged to sell more illegal drugs.
Drug dealers have families to feed, he said to Gambling. If they cant sell marijuana, theyll sell something else. And the something else will be something worse, and the push to legalize this is wrongheaded.
MORE (IF YOU CAN STAND IT) HERE: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/31/nyc-mayor-bloomberg-medical-marijuana-one-of-the-great-hoaxes-of-all-time/
newmember
(805 posts)Why NYC residents vote for this idiot is beyond comprehension.
Fla_Democrat
(2,547 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)This former GOP bases his social policies & theory of governance on prohibitionism and excessive use of police power, whether its about guns, soft drinks, stop & frisk, or dope. Antique, dysfunctional.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)krispos42
(49,445 posts)LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)What an ass. Bookmarking for later.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)the plane of existence in which he and his ilk live.
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Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)So if strawberries are illegal, drug dealers will sell those and stay employed, and not be forced to sell pot.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)What he's REALLY saying is that we need to keep the drug wars going, in order to keep all the drug dealers "employed" and then to employ more and more police to "deal with the drug problem", essentially is what he's saying; the rest is just window dressing.
So this must be the GOP "jobs plan"?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I wonder what he's been smoking.