NYC Mayor de Blasio tells police to end arrests for marijuana smoking

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN




By Sonia Moghe and Susannah Cullinane, CNN

Updated 1:32 AM ET, Mon May 21, 2018

NEW YORK (CNN) - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has told top brass at the city's police department to stop arresting people who are caught smoking marijuana in public, according to a City Hall aide.

Currently, smoking in public can lead to arrest, while possession of small amounts of marijuana can lead to a summons.

This weekend, the mayor told the NYPD to issue summonses for smoking pot in public, instead of making arrests. The NYPD has already begun a working group to evaluate its marijuana enforcement procedures and present its recommendations within 30 days, at the mayor's request. The mayor made it clear this weekend that ending public marijuana smoking arrests is one of the changes he wants.

Any changes to NYPD's policy on smoking in public would not take effect until the end of the summer.

Read more: https://us.cnn.com/2018/05/21/us/new-york-de-blasio-marijuana/index.html

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[Pluvious]

2. No more need to smoke and hide, when you know you're take'n a legal ride

Bush Doctor Peter Tosh also had a dream.
--

So there'll be
No more smokin and feelin tense
When I see them a come
I don't have to jump no fence

So there'll be no more
Police brutality
No more disrespect
For humanity
Legalize marijuana

Eliminate the slavish mentality
There'll be no more
Illegal humiliation
And no more police
Interrogation

So...
Legalize marijuana

[flibbitygiblets]

3. This is huge. The smell of pot is very easy to identify, which means it's easy to then

harass the first "suspicious looking" people nearby (and whom do you think that might be?).

Next step is to release all people from jail who are there for minor pot possession charges. I'm going to take an educated guess that the vast majority of them are also people of color.

[christx30]

4. Yeah, pot is a federal thing.

I should be handled on the federal level. It should be legal. But until it is, stated and cities should have a hands off policy.