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Here’s @MarijuanaMoment’s comprehensive look at the cannabis record of presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, from overseeing hundreds of thousands of arrests in NYC to calling legalization “the stupidest thing anybody has ever done.”

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@MarijuanaMoment “Today incidentally, we are trying to legalize another addictive narcotic, which is perhaps the stupidest thing anybody has ever done.” — @MikeBloomberg on marijuana.

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@MarijuanaMoment @MikeBloomberg “Yeah, right, medical, my foot. Come on. There’s no medical—this is one of the great hoaxes of all times.” — @MikeBloomberg on medical cannabis.

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@MarijuanaMoment @MikeBloomberg “In lots of places in the Far East, they have signs up, ‘Death to drug dealers.’ Think about the number of people who die from drug use here… Executing a handful of people saves thousands & thousands of lives” — @MikeBloomberg on death penalty for drugs

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@MarijuanaMoment @MikeBloomberg “I couldn’t feel more strongly about it, and my girlfriend says it’s no different than alcohol. It is different than alcohol. This is one of the stupider things that’s happening across our country.” — @MikeBloomberg on marijuana legalization

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@MarijuanaMoment @MikeBloomberg .@MikeBloomberg’s marijuana arrest record as New York City mayor:

More cannabis busts than the three previous mayors—including Rudy Giuliani—combined.

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@MarijuanaMoment @MikeBloomberg "I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little. It’s exactly the reverse of what they say.” - @MikeBloomberg on criticism of his stop-and-frisk policing policy that put thousands of black men in handcuffs for marijuana.

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@MarijuanaMoment @MikeBloomberg AND YET!

“You bet I did—and I enjoyed it.” - @MikeBloomberg on his own past marijuana use

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@MarijuanaMoment @MikeBloomberg Michael Bloomberg is the only other Democratic presidential candidate besides Joe Biden who opposes marijuana legalization.

And unlike Biden, he hasn’t even backed simple decriminalization or modest federal rescheduling.

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