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Monday, February 18, 2013

Bloomberg Says No More Jail Stays for Minor NYC Marijuana Busts

In his final state of the city address Thursday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that people caught with small amounts of marijuana in the city will no longer be subjected to overnight stays in the city's jails, but will merely be taken to the precinct for a desk appearance and then released.
The move is in response to increasingly loud criticism of the city's extremely high marijuana arrest rates, which are taking place despite New York state having decriminalized pot possession more than three decades ago. The NYPD managed to get its pound of flesh from marijuana users by intimidating them into removing baggies from their pockets, then charging them with the misdemeanor of public possession of marijuana, not the infraction of simple possession, and then making them sit in holding cells for up to 24 hours.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Make more money putting fines on them.

Anonymous said...

Be careful you might go to jail if you are caught wit 64oz soda drink

Anonymous said...

About time!

Anonymous said...

As a good liberal he could impose the same $5.00 per pack cig tax on every gram of pot. He would be an instant hero to the libs.