"Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter says the city has more important issue to tackle than decriminalizing marijuana, and he criticized the City Council for bringing the issue to the forefront.
"People in this city ... come up to me all the time asking about jobs, asking about housing, or asking about their children's education, or can we provide more services," Nutter said Monday.
"No one has come up to me asking, 'Can you make it easier for me to stand on a street corner in front of some grandma's house and smoke my joint?' So let's be realistic here," he said.
CBS Philadelphia says Nutter lashed out at the City Council for approving marijuana decriminalization in June. Nutter has until Sept. 11 to either approve the measure or veto it.
City Councilman Jim Kenney, the author of the bill, who is also being looked at as a possible mayoral candidate, has called on Nutter to sign the bill........
Nutter also rejected claims that marijuana arrests unfairly target black men, calling it "bogus."
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"Black people are fighting for the same things that white folks want. They want safe neighborhoods, they want a job, they want their kids to get a great education," he said. "They want to be able to buy a house and have a quality of life and not have six knuckleheads outside their house smoking, having a good time, and destroying the quality of life in those neighborhoods." ABC
As for the crowd pushing for drug legalization.....
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 6:5
We shall see though, whether he vetoes or caves & signs the bill.
