NYPD Commissioner Has Some 'Extremely Dubious' Claims About Marijuana
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said on a local radio show over the weekend that marijuana is responsible for the “vast majority” of New York City’s violence, adding that it makes him “scratch [his] head” as to why states want to legalize marijuana.
“Interestingly enough here in New York City, most of the violence we see — violence around drug trafficking — is involving marijuana,” Bratton said. “Here in New York the violence we see associated with drugs, the vast majority of it, is around marijuana, which is ironic considering the explosion in the use of heroin now in the city.”
“I have to scratch my head as we are seeing many states wanting to legalize marijuana, or more liberalization of policies.”
Morgan Fox of the Marijuana Policy Project told ThinkProgress that Bratton’s claims are “extremely dubious,” and would be highly dependent on how “involving marijuana” is defined.
“It seems to...
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