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Bloomberg Says He Regrets Marijuana Remarks (2002, he said he enjoyed getting high)
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/10/nyregion/bloomberg-says-he-regrets-marijuana-remarks.htmlBy Jennifer Steinhauer
April 10, 2002
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday that he regretted making an off-the-cuff comment about his marijuana use that led to a full-page advertisement, and he demurred when asked if he believed the drug should be legalized for medical use.
He commented as the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws Foundation began a $500,000 advertising campaign featuring the mayor responding to the question of whether he had ever tried marijuana by saying: ''You bet I did. And I enjoyed it.''
The quotation came from an interview Mr. Bloomberg gave to New York magazine last year before he announced he was running for mayor. Among the advertisements was a full-page one in The New York Times yesterday. ''What I said back then was the truth,'' Mr. Bloomberg said during a news conference in the Blue Room at City Hall.
''In terms of, I had, certainly when I was younger, as I suppose most people in my generation, experimented. I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them. Do I, in retrospect, wish I didn't say it that day so they couldn't quote it? Of course.'' The mayor said that he was ''a believer that we should enforce the laws, and I do not think that decriminalizing marijuana is a good idea.''
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IronLionZion
(45,427 posts)1. Maybe he was high when he said it
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
unblock
(52,196 posts)2. Lol! He doesn't regret doing it, he regrets getting caught!
Usually that's said about something illicit..
In this case, it's about his *talking* about it, lol
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)3. So what if you "tried'' marijuana and liked it. Whose votes are you going to lose?
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
TwilightZone
(25,464 posts)4. The complication is that he doesn't think it should be legalized.
He recently called legalizing it the "the stupidest thing anybody has ever done".
In that context, his stances then and now look rather hypocritical.
Not to mention rather hyperbolic. Trump does something dumber several times a day.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)5. Why he's now entering the race is ''the stupidest thing anybody has ever done''
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)6. And those that sell political advertising
are catering to him, just to hoover up the millions of dollars that he'll piss away on this vanity stunt.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden