Mayor Bloomberg got huffy and puffy yesterday discussing medical marijuana, describing efforts to legalize it as one of the greatest health scams in history.
“Medical, my foot,” the mayor said. “There’s no medical. This is one of the great hoaxes of all time.”
Bloomberg is concerned that recreational users would game a system intended only for those with medical needs.
“The bottom line is I’m told marijuana is much stronger today than it was 20, 30 years ago,” Bloomberg said on his weekly WOR radio show. “That’s one problem. No. 2, drug dealers have families to feed. If they can’t sell marijuana, they’ll sell something else.”
While running for office in 2001, he admitted to experimenting with pot in his younger days.
“You bet I did — and I enjoyed it,” he boasted.
State Sen. Diane Savino, who’s pushing legislation to legalize medical marijuana in New York, offered to bring cancer patients to City Hall to demonstrate the need for weed-based relief.
And doctors blasted Hizzoner’s attack.
“Mayor Bloomberg’s statement that medical marijuana is a hoax is tantamount to saying that the moon landing was faked,” said Dr. Sunil Aggarwal, vice-chair of New York Physicians for Compassionate Care.