Posted on 12/05/2022 5:18:43 AM PST by Rummyfan
n August, New York mayor Eric Adams stood before a banner festooned with cannabis-leaf emblems, making what he billed as a major announcement. “Today, we light up our economy,” enthused the mayor. Referring to recreational pot sales, he continued: “The regulated adult-use cannabis industry is a once-in-a-generation opportunity. . . . Cannabis NYC will plant the seeds for the economy of tomorrow.” Standing with Adams, John Durso of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union promised “good, union jobs.” Jeffrey Garcia of the Latino Cannabis Association predicted “one of the largest generators of wealth in New York at least for the next two decades.” Bertha Lewis of the Black Institute affirmed that “cannabis is an industry and not just a nickel bag.” Deputy mayor for economic development Maria Torres-Springer promised “hundreds of millions in revenue” for the city.
Welcome to New York’s post-pandemic economic-development policy: the promotion of vice. In this New York, vice isn’t something to tolerate, operating on the edges of the law, in a black market in a dense, wealthy city; it’s a premier growth industry.
And pot isn’t the only vice that New York is encouraging. Gotham is also eagerly courting multiple full-service casinos. It’s a path that struggling and far weaker American cities—including Atlantic City, New Orleans, and Detroit—took out of sheer economic desperation, born of policy failure. Adams is unabashedly cheering the expansion of “gaming,” as he calls it, to “create at least 16,000 good-paying jobs.”
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I’m surprised he isn’t pushing child prostitution. There seems to be huge demand these days and it could be a real high-growth industry.
Their future looks like Atlantic City New Jersey.
A failed government that buys votes, lacking the funds to pay for it. And the voters that vote for them; an expanding group.
Just like nobody should go to jail for possessing an ounce of marijuana, nobody should go to jail for methamphetamine.
We could save 33,000 lives a year with clean and correctly dosed methamphetamine... and the jobs...safe clean resorts go to a fun-filled family meth experience... and we would use the new revenue would be used for a citizen’s Christmas bonus!
FREE MONEY!
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