Sentences with phrase «calls about marijuana»

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He talked about educating people about the dangers of the drug, decried marijuana as a gateway drug, and called for a «one - penny fee on every milligram of opiates that are produced and sold in America» to be collected for treatment.

As we've written about before, more and more advocates are calling for measures to decriminalize marijuana and reform the criminal justice system, as advocates say that not only are the current laws unfair, but they are also expensive and ineffective at stopping crime.

Asked about the call from his primary opponent, Cynthia Nixon, to legalize marijuana, Cuomo insisted New York is not, in fact, dragging behind other states on this issue, pointing to the study he commissioned in January to look at full legalization.

The Times reported that blacks in the city are eight times more likely to be arrested on low - level marijuana charges as whites and that the difference can not entirely be attributed to more residents in predominantly black neighborhoods calling police to complain about marijuana.

Off topic question topics included whether the mayor and his wife have smoked marijuana inside Gracie Mansion, a Daily News call for the mayor to «accept responsibility for inflaming the police», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction ending.

Under scrutiny for a huge racial gap in marijuana busts, NYPD brass said they're making arrests in neighborhoods where residents are calling to complain about public weed smoking.

Asked by a reporter earlier this year why he was «kind of a stick in the mud about recreational marijuana,» Gov. Cuomo called it a «gateway drug.»

earlier this year why he was «kind of a stick in the mud about recreational marijuana,» Gov. Cuomo called it a «gateway drug.»

The Wall Street bust anecdote came after Bratton was asked about marijuana policy by a member of a marijuana advocacy group called «Occupy Weed Street.»

Schumer says that federal statistics show 2,300 emergency room visits in a two - month period were related to synthetic marijuana use and that poison control center calls about the drug are surging around the nation.

O'Neill said that over the past four years, top charge marijuana arrests citywide are down 32 percent, while the issuance of summonses is up 57 percent, and that overall calls for service from the public about marijuana are up 26 percent.

The action plan that the task force has put together calls for identifying and boycotting local businesses that sell synthetic marijuana, organizing a town hall meeting about the drug, and reaching out to and providing services for Bronxites in The Hub who are using drugs.

In addition, while marijuana is a hodgepodge of about 64 different substances, Sativex is composed mainly of two ingredients: THC and another cannabinoid called CBD.

Set in the woods of Northern California in an off - the - grid town called Willits, a «haven for marijuana growers, meth addicts, and conspiracy theorists», the story is about a group of teens who get mixed up with a local pot farmer.

The Pet Poison Hotline has reported a 200 % increase, over a five year period, in calls asking about marijuana and pets.

The Pet Poison Helpline has seen a 330 percent increase in calls involving pets and pot in the past five years with about two - thirds of the calls involving food or oils laced with marijuana or one of its active chemicals.