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New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot
#19268358 - 12/12/13 10:17 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot huffingtonpost.com
First Washington and Colorado, and now -- maybe -- New York.
On Wednesday morning, New York state Sen. Liz Krueger, a Manhattan Democrat, unveiled a proposal to fully legalize and tax marijuana in the state.
At a press conference at City Hall in downtown Manhattan, Krueger denounced the prohibition of marijuana as a “policy that just hasn’t worked.”
“The illegal marijuana economy is alive and well,” she said, “and our unjust laws are branding nonviolent New Yorkers, especially young adults, as criminals, creating a vicious cycle that ruins lives and needlessly wastes taxpayer dollars.”
The bill represents the third effort in 2013 to topple legal barriers to pot use in New York state. Proposals to legalize marijuana for seriously ill patients and to fix a loophole in New York’s decades-old marijuana decriminalization law both passed the state Assembly earlier this year, but the state Senate adjourned in June without taking action on either measure.
Advocates for pot legalization hope the new bill will fare better, but even they concede that the state’s failure to adopt far more modest reforms doesn’t bode well for the sweeping new proposal.
“It’s unlikely that this bill is passing this year,” said Gabriel Sayegh, the New York director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a group that advocates for the legalization of all drugs.
Still, he added, “it is an important contribution to the discussion that we should be having about our broken marijuana policies in New York.”
About 600,000 people have been arrested for marijuana possession in the state since 1997, according to the Drug Policy Alliance. In New York City, more people are arrested for marijuana possession than for any other offense. As Krueger stressed at the press conference, the vast majority are black and Latino, despite evidence showing that marijuana use is more common among whites.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has expressed ambivalence about legalizing marijuana even for medical use. But he led an effort last year to make possession of marijuana in public view a violation instead of a misdemeanor. Under a state law that has been on the books since 1977, possession of a small amount of marijuana is a minor offense on par with jaywalking. But if you you are caught holding or smoking pot in public view, you can be charged with a much more serious offense -- a misdemeanor punishable by up to three months in jail and a $500 fine.
Civil-liberties advocates say that many of the young black and Latino men who are charged with this offense bring the drug out into the open only after police tell them to empty their pockets. The outgoing New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly directed his department to put an end to the practice last year, but critics of pot prohibition say that broader reforms are needed.
“We’re spending taxpayer money to ruin lives, disproportionately for those from communities of color, with no real public policy goal to be found in any of it,” Krueger said.
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: Ythan]
#19268385 - 12/12/13 10:22 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Please please please!!
“It’s unlikely that this bill is passing this year,” said Gabriel Sayegh, the New York director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a group that advocates for the legalization of all drugs.
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: KingKnowledge]
#19269229 - 12/13/13 03:03 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
KingKnowledge said: Please please please!!
“It’s unlikely that this bill is passing this year,” said Gabriel Sayegh, the New York director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a group that advocates for the legalization of all drugs.

Well then it's a good thing that the year is almost over!
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: Camwritesgonzo]
#19269263 - 12/13/13 03:27 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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well if you let us vote on the thing..
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: Konyap]
#19269798 - 12/13/13 08:41 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anyone know how this will relate to people on probation? I gather since those on probation can't drink alcohol the same will go for pot. Which is just ludicrous. Prohibiting one from something perfectly legal is pretty preposterous.
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: DeadPhan]
#19269818 - 12/13/13 08:50 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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i dunno
people can smoke cigs
cigs are way more harmful
giving people in jail pot would be sort of a step up lol
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: Konyap] 2
#19269869 - 12/13/13 09:07 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Indeed. In fact, I'd say if they let the prisoners smoke weed, I'd bet there'd be a lot less violence in the jails.
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: Le_Canard]
#19269909 - 12/13/13 09:21 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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This would be positively incredible for me as a resident of a town no more than 20 minutes from the NY state line
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: Absent Minded]
#19269912 - 12/13/13 09:23 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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The thing is we don't need legal pot AT ALL
we need less house raids and racist cop a feel tactics by the police
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: Le_Canard]
#19269945 - 12/13/13 09:32 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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ToiletDuk said: Indeed. In fact, I'd say if they let the prisoners smoke weed, I'd bet there'd be a lot less violence in the jails.
Possibly, when I was young all the gang bangers smoked pot.
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: Repertoire89]
#19271114 - 12/13/13 02:43 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss thanks to the based god!
I cant wait for this to pass.
I sware i will smoke weed while doing everything.
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: GodSpores]
#19271123 - 12/13/13 02:46 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Blow smoke at all the asians in college
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: Konyap]
#19271124 - 12/13/13 02:46 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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The darkies blow back
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: Konyap]
#19271154 - 12/13/13 02:55 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Illyabo said: The thing is we don't need legal pot AT ALL
we need less house raids and racist cop a feel tactics by the police
The two are not related. You can be against stop and frisk and for legal weed too. I support the whole drug war ending and everything being legal, that will stop the raids.
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: Konyap]
#19271161 - 12/13/13 02:57 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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As a Canadian living 5 minutes from the New York border I will be supremely jealous if this happens. Pot laws just keep getting harsher and more ridiculous here in the great white north. FUCK YOU STEPHEN HARPER! It seems every other day you lucky bastard americans have a new state to go smoke legally in while our retarded government just keeps bending us over! God I hate the fucking conservatives..
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: Zombi3]
#19271726 - 12/13/13 05:19 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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it's been decriminalized since the 70's but mayor guiliani made it so if you pull it out in public its a crime so a dickhead cop pulling out a bag out of your pocket is a crime lol
the more i think about it the more i think it's just a headline for "librel" media to roll at the bottom as some sort of joke
with all the foreigners, the UN, and 9/11 crap...
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: Konyap]
#19271737 - 12/13/13 05:22 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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look at statistic we do the most percentage of pot arrest and they are always black people we fear putting cops with high IQ's in the force because we think they will quit black people getting beat and shot in their houses
cops love pot here because then they can do all sorts of questioning and feels they put people IN JAIL here to see if anything falls through
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: Konyap]
#19271746 - 12/13/13 05:24 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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so many people here abuse painkillers too it's pathetic it's like a brochure they hand out at schools
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: Konyap]
#19272376 - 12/13/13 08:37 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Wish Texas would consider legalizing, but that's probably a long time from now.
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Re: New York Could Be Third State To Legalize Pot [Re: suniced]
#19272447 - 12/13/13 09:00 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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As far as New York City goes, it's pretty darn easy to get herb... and it's been that way for as long as I can remember.
Not sure there would be too much difference.
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