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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBloomberg Calls (Marijuana) Legalization 'Stupidest Thing Ever Done'
Buh bye Bloomberg
https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/bloomberg-calls-legalization-stupidest-thing-ever-done
Heres one way to stand out in a crowded pack of Democratic presidential candidates: Go on the radio and shoot yourself in the foot.
Former New York mayor and one-time presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg blasted cannabis law reform efforts Tuesday. Bloomberg went on the radio station WBNG and said taxing and regulating cannabis instead of locking mostly young people of color up for it is perhaps the stupidest thing anybody has ever done.
We could think of stupider things, like mulling a presidential run after calling most voters stupid for supporting legalization by 61 percent in the US, and 75 percent among Democrats. Ten states have ended the marijuana war. More than one in five Americans live in a legal adult-use state.
More dangerously, Bloomberg tied liberalization of cannabis which has no lethal overdose level to Americas opioid overdose epidemic, echoing former Attorney General Jeff Sessions talking points. Last year, in 2017, 72,000 Americans ODd on drugs, Bloomberg said. In 2018, more people than that are OD-ing on drugs, have ODd on drugs, and today, incidentally, we are trying to legalize another addictive narcotic, which is perhaps the stupidest thing anybody has ever done.
That might be a catchy radio sound bite, but it misleads citizens. First, cannabis is not a narcotic. Studies conclude cannabis carries less risk for psychological addiction or physical dependence than more toxic, legal drugs such as nicotine and alcohol, let alone legal opioids (which are narcotics). Still, the federal government deems cannabis more medically useless and far riskier than opioid drugs like vicodin and codeine.
TeamPooka
(24,232 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,108 posts)was making that statement Mr Bloomberg. Well, right behind inserting a criminal for president.
Mosby
(16,320 posts)Is pot a narcotic? Of course not, and it's not an analgesic either.
CharleyDog
(758 posts)your stupid anti-worker, anti-progressive views!! Tone deaf locked in his billionaire bubble.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Yeaahhhhh just a bit!
Who the hell can be so anti cannabis with the information we have on pot now?
I mean you have to question the intellectual capacity of an adult that is an anti pot warrior these days.
I guess if Bloomy is so against pot he must be 1000% against cancer causing, life destroying, alcohol, right?
Right??
https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html
Nooooooooooooo of course not!
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)Nothing worse that a person talking extensively about something about which they have little knowledge.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)He's not getting my vote anyway.
2naSalit
(86,664 posts)sarisataka
(18,679 posts)He changed the letter after his name to (D) again....
doompatrol39
(428 posts)He'll be able to cut through the gridlock!
Blues Heron
(5,938 posts)FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)...once the field clears.
I think it's a misread of the level of engagement and support of a move Leftward by the party and the country, the kind of misread a person of rare wealth might make.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)And the majority is lined up against him. Not smart politically.
earthshine
(1,642 posts)This from the man who wanted to criminalize soda.
Mosby
(16,320 posts)Liberals/progressives used to support this sort of thing.
shanny
(6,709 posts)Also too, apparently stupid, clueless or both.
aidbo
(2,328 posts)Response to TeamPooka (Original post)
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akraven
(1,975 posts)not that anyone paid attention due to it's already widespread use and cultivation! But spouse has a degenerative hip joint problem, and would be downing Vicodin like aspirin without his pot. (I don't care for it, never have, and make him smoke outside..)
Safe, effective, and harmless except for the smell.
aikoaiko
(34,174 posts)This ignorant anti-weed statement by Bloomberg is really challenging me.
tenderfoot
(8,437 posts)no one can afford the live there anymore.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)I just read this today in my stocks news feed. Canadian pot corporations are way ahead of us in the biz.