July 22, 2009
Mayor Daley is not interested in talking about the decriminalization of marijuana.
MAYOR DALEY:
We just had a ban on smoking. People say you can’t smoke, they said, ‘Please don’t smoke.’ And now everyone’s saying, ‘Let’s all smoke marijuana.’ I mean, after a while you wonder where America’s going to.
Not sure how the ordinance the Cook County Board proposed, which would give Sheriff’s police the option to write a $200 ticket for possession of less than 10 grams instead of a misdemeanor arrest, means “Let’s all smoke marijuana”.
DALEY brought up the issue of driving under the influence of marijuana, which is a very different thing.
If someone drives down the expressway, if someone’s driving a cab, if someone’s driving a bus, if someone’s flying a plane. After a while, I mean, where do you go?
The ordinance is about simple possession. No police officer is going to give someone impaired from marijuana a ticket and let them drive off.
TODD STROGER is still playing the I don’t know I haven’t read it yet. To override his veto? 14 commissioners.
Though on WGN this morning he said he “didn’t think it’s such a great idea.”
STROGER: I’m not really an advocate of trying to decriminalize the drug that people start before they move on to the higher stuff.
Not sure if that has been born out. Folks smoke marijuana and never progress to “higher stuff” – interesting choice of words. Some smoke marijuana for medical reasons and some smoke marijuana before during and after they use/d other drugs. And some folks smoke marijuana and never smoke it again like Lou Pinella and hopefully Geovanny Soto.
And Chicago’s most famous ex-resident?
barry: “I inhaled, frequently – that was the point.”
Source: Chicago’s Breaking News
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