Where do the Rest of New York’s Mayoral Candidates Stand on Legal Weed?
Bill De Blasio
De Blasio also supports decriminalization of small amounts, and has left the door open for potential support of medical marijuana legislation as well. “The current law saddles many young people with a criminal record unfairly and it must be changed,” he said in live chat with the Daily News last month. “I think there are appropriate medical uses for marijuana and I am open to policies that allow for medical use.” He’s also spoken at length about the role racial bias tends to play in marijuana arrests, and has said at that as mayor “will enforce these standards and ensure cases of marijuana found through police stops are treated as possessions, not public displays.”