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Bloomberg Backs Plan to Limit Arrests for Marijuana
New York Times ^ | June 4, 2012 | Thomas Kaplan

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; marijuana
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Let me get this straight. You can walk around with pot but Bloomberg will send the cops after you if you are drinking a 32 oz slurpee???
1 posted on 06/05/2012 8:33:04 AM PDT by C19fan
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So you can get as high as Harlem, but when you get the munchies afterwards, better not indulge lest Bloomberg has you arrested.


2 posted on 06/05/2012 8:35:00 AM PDT by PGR88
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Bloomberg wants to free up police to go after the slupee criminals.


3 posted on 06/05/2012 8:36:39 AM PDT by tennmountainman
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Yep. You can smoke pot, but then you can’t satisfy your resulting munchies.


4 posted on 06/05/2012 8:38:08 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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They should throw full 1 liter bottles at his limo.


5 posted on 06/05/2012 8:38:12 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Romney - not Obama - not a Conservative - not a real Christian)
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No, no!

He said he’s NOT imposing on your freedom to get 32 oz of soft drink.

It’s just that the sellers HAVE TO serve it in two glasses.

HAVE TO. “Progressives” love that word combo.


6 posted on 06/05/2012 8:38:32 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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Do I get a prize for being the only comment that doesn’t mention Big Gulp or Slurpee? Oooops.


7 posted on 06/05/2012 8:39:52 AM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: PGR88

This is the opposite Giuliani’s approach to bringing down the crime rate. Giuliani enforced all of the ‘little laws’ that weren’t being enforced ... his thinking being that if you don’t enforce all the laws, then people develop a mindset that it is ok to break the law.


8 posted on 06/05/2012 8:39:52 AM PDT by ChiefJayStrongbow
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freeze them first


9 posted on 06/05/2012 8:39:57 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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Let me get this straight. You can walk around with pot but Bloomberg will send the cops after you if you are drinking a 32 oz slurpee???

That is exactly right. Now that he's freeing up all those jail cells, he can now put the evil pop drinkers in them. Where will he incarcerate all the incandescent light bulb junkies? -- Possibly in all the empty death row cells.

10 posted on 06/05/2012 8:41:26 AM PDT by immadashell
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That’s right. Don’t you understand the liberal logic?

To liberals, drugs are cool, society is too uptight about drugs and related issues, drugs should be treated the same as alcohol, etc. So, the liberal view is that we should not be concerned about drug use.

On the other hand, people drinking a big gulp are getting too much sugar. So, for their own good, we have to downsize the drinks.

It does seem odd, that we’re supposed to be worried about people getting too much sugar, but not worried about them getting involved with drugs.

To be a good liberal, sometimes you have to have unusual reasoning abilities to justify liberal policies.


11 posted on 06/05/2012 8:42:12 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Police will be given the go ahead to gun you down in the street for smoking a cigarette while drinking a big gulp.


12 posted on 06/05/2012 8:43:15 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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And to think this moron RINO will be reelected again..I think Bloomberg thinks he can collect more taxes on Pot than Big Gulp..


13 posted on 06/05/2012 8:47:00 AM PDT by PLD (It is time the freeloaders leave the white house and go back to the hell hole where they came from..)
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And to think this moron RINO will be reelected again..I think Bloomberg thinks he can collect more taxes on Pot than Big Gulp..


14 posted on 06/05/2012 8:47:22 AM PDT by PLD (It is time the freeloaders leave the white house and go back to the hell hole where they came from..)
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"It’s just that the sellers HAVE TO serve it in two glasses."

Similar to liquor laws in many states, where it is illegal to serve a one ounce shot beside an 8 - 12 ounce beer because that's "two drinks at once."

But it's perfectly legal to pour the shot into the beer, or mix a drink with up to four ounces of liquor in it.
15 posted on 06/05/2012 8:48:29 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: C19fan

Prohibitionists take it in the shorts, again.


16 posted on 06/05/2012 8:48:48 AM PDT by Ken H (Austerity is the irresistible force. Entitlements are the immovable object.)
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[ Let me get this straight. You can walk around with pot but Bloomberg will send the cops after you if you are drinking a 32 oz slurpee??? ]

Munchie Patrol Squad!!!!

Drop the Big Gulp and Doritoes and come out with your cheese dust encrusted hands up!


17 posted on 06/05/2012 8:48:48 AM PDT by GraceG
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Let me get this straight. You can walk around with pot but Bloomberg will send the cops after you if you are drinking a 32 oz slurpee???

"Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while."

18 posted on 06/05/2012 8:50:06 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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No salt, transfats or sugary drinks but drugs are just fine. Bloomberg is certifiably crazy!


19 posted on 06/05/2012 8:50:06 AM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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Only if they have a direct shot.


20 posted on 06/05/2012 8:50:27 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Romney - not Obama - not a Conservative - not a real Christian)
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