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Mayor Bloomberg’s Anti-Doobie Campaign

bloomberg.jpgMichael Bloomberg, in 2001 (before he was mayor of New York), when asked if he’d ever tried marijuana:

“You bet I did. And I enjoyed it.”

These days, Mayor Bloomberg better watch his back before smoking spliffs on his Upper East Side terrace. He now oversees what the New York Civil Liberties Union describes as a “marijuana arrest crusade,” as the NYPD locks up more than 35,000 people each year for marijuana possession.

Arrests are up elevenfold since the 1990s, even though most people who are arrested aren’t even smoking up at the time. Why would cops do that? According to researchers:

[B]usting pot smokers is a relatively safe and easy way to pad arrest figures, which creates the illusion of productivity, and generate overtime pay, a practice known as “collars for dollars.”

Additionally, studies have shown white kids ages 18 to 25 are the most likely to light up a fat one, but black and Hispanic New Yorkers are arrested three to five times as often for possession. Which might explain why Mayor Bloomberg himself escaped his youth unscathed, hmm?

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5 Responses to “Mayor Bloomberg’s Anti-Doobie Campaign”


  1. 1 Hurricane May 7th, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    Do not questions the all powerful Nanny State!
    If Bloomie says it is bad then it is bad. If the State says they know better then they must! Do not rely on thinking for yourself. Allow him to think for you and you WILL be better off. Herb, trans fat, cigarettes…it’s all jsut the beginning. Soon we will have no stress and no troubles in our life as we will be cared for by the State. I cannot wait for the new Garden of Eden to begin!

  2. 2 Chronic Malanga May 7th, 2008 at 6:18 pm

    When will people just give up on this fantasy about a war on drugs? Spark one up and relax already. There are worse things out there than a little herb, like hypocrites.

  3. 3 Rocko May 7th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

    No one cares. They’re not arresting white people for it. When Johnny Prepschool gets stopped, frisked and possibly locked up on suspicion of possession of mary jane then people will care.

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