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NYC Mayor inhaled . . . AND enjoyed.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/41283.htm
quote:
April 9, 2002 -- Being mayor can be such a drag.
A pro-marijuana group is using a pot-positive quote uttered by Mayor Bloomberg last year, in a new $500,000 ad campaign to be unveiled today.
"Great. I'm thrilled," Bloomberg quipped sarcastically yesterday when asked about the ad after a joint press conference with the Fire Department.
Bloomberg bluntly admitted to New York magazine in April 2001 he had smoked marijuana in the past - and definitely inhaled.
"You bet I did, and I enjoyed it," Bloomberg said at the time.
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws plans to plaster the ads throughout the city, urging the NYPD to stop locking up pot smokers.
"I'm not thrilled they're using my name," Bloomberg said yesterday. "I suppose it's that First Amendment that gets in the way of me stopping it."
NORML spokesman Nicholas Thimmesch said the group is not trying to embarrass the mayor.
"This is not, ‘Gotcha!' We are very happy that the mayor expressed his experience with marijuana and said it in a favorable light. We're saying, ‘At last, an honest politician,' " he said.
The Washington-based group wants the NYPD to stop cuffing and jailing people caught with less than 28 grams of pot.
The users should get only a citation instead, Thimmesch said.
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