Posted on 06/05/2012 8:32:50 AM PDT by C19fan
The New York Police Department, the mayor and the city’s top prosecutors on Monday endorsed a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana, giving an unexpected lift to an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to cut down on the number of people arrested as a result of police stops.
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This is exactly why people despise politicians
Catch-22...it generates more revenue and less cost to bust people for the slurpee...this way, people get high, develop a thirst and buy big drinks.
Devious, to say the least.
40-ouncers of malt liquor are also still okay in Herr Bloomie’s world.
Just what I was going to say. The guy is a loon. Also don’t forget if you donate food to the homeless he will confiscate it and if you smoke a cigarette in a park or in Times square in the street you’ll be busted. Oh yes and in your apartment. That was his latest decree last month - He wanted all landlords to send him a list of all the people who smoke in their apartments. Maybe next he will demand smokers wear the letter “S” on their arms and have the cops write “Smoker” on peoples windows.
What’s incredible to me is this a-hole has absolutely no authority whatsoever to do any of this crap yet people think he does. How about if he banned ipods or cellphones or computers or clothes? He demanded everyone walk around naked or banned food or banned breathing, would people still think he has the authority ? He just spews out his shiet week after week month after month without any approval from anybody without any protest from anybody, even Chuck Schumer is silent who holds press conferences at the drop of a hat, which is all why I claim New York city is run under despotism, because it freakin is!
Chicago has already done this. And quite frankly I think it’s a good idea. When it comes to “What do we need the cops to do?”, busting people for smoking marijuana is pretty low on my priority list.
Arrested. Not incarcerated.
Completely correct. And not that marijuana is a good thing or that smoking it is wise.
It’s a harmful vice, but not nearly as harmful as enforcing its prohibition.
if they allow medicinal pot (vs not enforcing the law) then those “patients” should immediatly have their driver licence susptended for the duration of their treatment.
Here’s what isn’t mentioned:
The current low level marijuana laws in NYC are unenforceable because they are morally repugnant to the vast majority of street beat cops.
Definitely over 30% of street beat cops in NYPD have used marijuana, and it’s probably closer to 80% have used it. Nearly 100% of NYPD street beat cops know people who both smoke marijuana and live productive and normal lives.
And yes, the street beat cops also know about the total fuck ups, but you rarely if ever see a total fuck up who only uses marijuana in NYC. IT is not a gateway drug in NYC, marijuana is now the drug of choice of people who consciously choose to NOT destroy themselves. There are plenty of ways and plenty of drugs available to destroy oneself in NYC, the end user has to repeatedly refuse offers for these harder drugs on a normal basis.
in NYC there is heroin that is now cheaper per high than marijuana, cocaine that is cheaper per high than marijuana.
Lethargic fatass stoners in NYC don’t last long, they get evicted and go be poor somewhere else.
On the other end of the spectrum, the artistic/creative industry people in NYC represent a much larger percentage of the marijuana user base in NYC than in the country in general, and they produce tens of billions of dollars in economic activity each year. Regular and casual and former marijuana users control much of the major industries in the city, and they are more powerful than the Drug Warriors industrial complex lobbyists who do not live, work and vote in NYC.
Which fascist hell hole do you live in?
No they haven't.
YES! The nanny state at it's control-freak wackiest...
Marijuana in Ohio is essentially decriminalized. Apparently, people here have recognized tying up law enforcement, courts, jails and prisons for something less harmful than alcohol should not be a priority, either.
Somehow, the state has not rotted and fallen into Lake Erie, despite the ramblings of people who support the failed War on (some) Drugs.
No. It's like nailing "fare-beaters" who jump over the turnstiles instead of paying the subway fare. When they turned their attention to busting them, they found that a huge percentage were already wanted for assault, robbery, rape, and so on. Same with weed on the street, in about 90 percent of the cases. That's what the cops are looking for.
The change in safety for normal grown-ups—those not flying on drugs as they walk down the street—after Giuliani started these "public order" enforcement policies changed the city overnight. People started going out at night again, business boomed, hiring soared, etc.
Most small-use marijuana stops are winos and thugs, rather than white-knuckled, principled, Ron Paul-ites who talk about Ayn Rand, who are scarce in NYC. The real reason for this "relaxation" in enforcement is because it means fewer black arrests. That's good for those NYS Assemblymen who represent the relatives of felons from Brooklyn and upper Manhattan.
Giuliani understood law enforcement. Bloomberg understands . . . I'm not sure, maybe homosexuality?
Cite?
if they allow medicinal pot (vs not enforcing the law) then those “patients” should immediatly have their driver licence susptended for the duration of their treatment.
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But only folks with prescription to medical pot?
I’d be a lot more worried about the oxycodone and vicodin impaired drivers than someone who smoked some pot.
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