Here is an excellent article on New York City's draconian and counterproductive marijuana laws. Basically, if you get busted for weed by the police in NYC--even for just a joint, you will be spending the night in jail and will be saddled with a criminal record for the rest of your life.
New York City--so progressive, forward thinking and trend setting on so many things, is basically a harsh, punitive third world backwater along the lines of Tehran, Pyongang, or Myanmar with regards to its Marijuana laws.
The question must be asked: why? Especially considering the fact that Mayor Mike Bloomberg has been so good in so many other ways and admitted that he's smoked weed and enjoyed it?
The answer is that since Rudy Giuliani incorporated these rules with regard to weed over a decade ago, 90% of the resulting arrests have been either Blacks or Hispanics, and the numbers of petty crimes in the city have plummeted.
Rich white folks get richer and stay out of jail, while the often industrious folks who provide them with their insatiable desire for weed--which of course be legal, get humiliatingly stopped and frisked for no reason and then rot in jail.
The system is patently unjust. New York City: Marijuana Gulag.
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