Bloomberg Backs Plan to Limit Arrests for Marijuana

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Bloomberg Backs Plan to Limit Arrests for Marijuana
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ALBANY — 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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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, whose Police Department made about 50,000 arrests last year for low-level marijuana possession, said the governor’s proposal “strikes the right balance” in part because it would still allow the police to arrest people who smoke marijuana in public.
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The marijuana arrests are a byproduct of the Police Department’s increasingly controversial stop-and-frisk practice. Mr. Bloomberg and police officials say the practice has made the city safer, but, because most of those stopped are black or Hispanic, the practice has been criticized as racially biased by advocates for minority communities.
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Best comment on the story; Just don’t get caught with the weed AND A 24 OUNCE COKE!
 
didymus said:
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Best comment on the story; Just don’t get caught with the weed AND A 24 OUNCE COKE!
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Actually, getting caught with marijuana would appear to be the better choice, vs. getting caught with an illegally large container of soda. Crazy. Liberals are amazing: “pro-choice” seems to be fine when it comes to killing babies, but not to one’s ability to choose how much soda to drink.
 
I actually think this policy alone is a good thing, but when you couple it with NYC having the nanny soda police, it really makes them look silly.

“Got some mary jane? Oh that’s fine, just don’t be selling or drinking any of those 32 oz. sodas!”
 
Probably a very good idea; it costs a small fortune to incarcerate a prisoner. I believe there are still people in prison from the Rockefeller era serving life sentences for possessing a single joint. That single joint cost the state a pretty penny all these years.
 
gamewell45 said:
Probably a very good idea; it costs a small fortune to incarcerate a prisoner. I believe there are still people in prison from the Rockefeller era serving life sentences for possessing a single joint. That single joint cost the state a pretty penny all these years.
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:rolleyes:
 
Disregard the police demanding you to empty your pockets without probable cause, we’ll just reduce the consequences for having marijuana.
 
scipio337 said:
Let’s not forget about their “sodium reduction” bill.
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And New Yorkers are still drinking raw unprocessed water that flows through 100 year old pipes and dumps raw sewage in its waterways.

You have to have your priorities.
 
SamH said:
And New Yorkers are still drinking raw unprocessed water that flows through 100 year old pipes and dumps raw sewage in its waterways.

You have to have your priorities.
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Hey, its that very water that give New York pizza and bagels their distinctive flavor.
 
SamH said:
And New Yorkers are still drinking raw unprocessed water that flows through 100 year old pipes and dumps raw sewage in its waterways.

You have to have your priorities.
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New York City’s water supply system is one of the most extensive municipal water systems in the world. This complex system relies on a combination of tunnels, aqueducts and reservoirs to meet the daily needs of 8 million residents and NY’s many visitors. Thanks to well-protected wilderness watersheds, New York’s water treatment process is simpler than in other American cities. One advantage of the system is that 95% of the total water supply is supplied by gravity. The other 5% needs to be pumped to maintain pressure.

It also tastes good. I lived in San Antonio some decades ago, and the water was hard and tasted of minerals and what I presumed to be cattle droppings.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
New York City’s water supply system is one of the most extensive municipal water systems in the world. This complex system relies on a combination of tunnels, aqueducts and reservoirs to meet the daily needs of 8 million residents and NY’s many visitors. Thanks to well-protected wilderness watersheds, New York’s water treatment process is simpler than in other American cities. One advantage of the system is that 95% of the total water supply is supplied by gravity. The other 5% needs to be pumped to maintain pressure.

It also tastes good. I lived in San Antonio some decades ago, and the water was hard and tasted of minerals and what I presumed to be cattle droppings.
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It’s still raw unprocessed lake water flowing out of lakes that are subject to the same pollution that the EPA blocks thousands of other cities from doing the same.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
New York City’s water supply system is one of the most extensive municipal water systems in the world. This complex system relies on a combination of tunnels, aqueducts and reservoirs to meet the daily needs of 8 million residents and NY’s many visitors. Thanks to well-protected wilderness watersheds, New York’s water treatment process is simpler than in other American cities. One advantage of the system is that 95% of the total water supply is supplied by gravity. The other 5% needs to be pumped to maintain pressure.

It also tastes good. I lived in San Antonio some decades ago, and the water was hard and tasted of minerals and what I presumed to be cattle droppings.
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I agree. Rat droppings give much better flavor. 😃
 
Scott_Lafrance said:
I agree. Rat droppings give much better flavor. 😃
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Yes, but those are country rats living in the fields near the reservoirs - good, healthy rats who live well and undoubtedly taste good, too. You want nastiness? Observe the filthy diseased rats living in the NYC Subways. Ugh!!! They don’t come near the water supply.
 
SamH said:
It’s still raw unprocessed lake water flowing out of lakes that are subject to the same pollution that the EPA blocks thousands of other cities from doing the same.
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Maybe so, but NYC is special. Those bandits in Treasure of the Sierra Madre didn’t “need no badges;” New Yorkers “don’t need no EPA.” 😃
 
Michael_C said:
Disregard the police demanding you to empty your pockets without probable cause, we’ll just reduce the consequences for having marijuana.
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Exactly, let’s not let that pesky Constitution get in the way…
 
FromTheAshes777 said:
Exactly, let’s not let that pesky Constitution get in the way…
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With you on that.

“What’s a little matter like the Constitution among friends?” (attributed to President Grover Cleveland). It’s a flexible document IMHO. 😃
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
With you on that.

“What’s a little matter like the Constitution among friends?” (attributed to President Grover Cleveland). It’s a flexible document IMHO. 😃
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I’m really surprised the ACLU hasn’t filed a lawsuit against the NYPD and Mayor Bloomberg over the stop and frisk protocol yet, considering a large majority of the people they are illegally searching are black or hispanic. As much as I’m normally not a fan of the ACLU, they do do good things from time to time.
 
didymus said:
NY Times:

Best comment on the story; Just don’t get caught with the weed AND A 24 OUNCE COKE!
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As I understand it, possession of marijuana is now a violation rather than a misdemeanor. This is probably a good thing despite its sending the wrong message to young people, as some protest. Sometimes Mayor Bloomberg actually makes sense, as he does here, and in his restrictive policy regarding cigarette smoking. But other times, he goes too far, as with the proposed ban on large-sized sugary sodas. I have mixed feelings about his policies across the board. Still I’m not sure New York City will do any better, and most likely much worse, with whoever the next mayor may be.
 
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