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Your tax dollars at work . . .

Your tax dollars at work . . .

https://nypost.com/2022/12/09/new-york-gets-ready-for-home-delivery-of-marijuana-and-edibles/

“Hey . . . Jose . . . bring me a lid of Colombian Red to 724 evergreen terrace”

Wait . . . is this actually legal? Apparently yes. And New York is ramping up an entire “regulatory body” to monitor door-dash style home delivery of marijuana. See link above. It's really, really true.

NYC of course, is the place with a $3 Billion budget deficit this year. But thank God they found enough money to launch and administer pot deliveries, eh?

NYC also has a homeless population of +/- 100,000. How do they even count this? And can you get uber-pot if you sleep in the subways? Just asking.

Okay – homelessness doesn't do it for you? How about NYC's murder rate – it hit a 20 year high this year. A bunch of those were in subways. Wait – sorry – I agreed to drop that topic. So, so sorry.

Well, NYC is also the place with an “official” high school graduation rate of 75%, but only a 7% dropout rate. Where are the rest of the public-school students? Missing and presumed dead? Lost in the subway system? Okay . .. okay . . I'm done with the murders on the subways. It's over.

Back to the pot deliverers. If you had told me that the city was setting up a bureaucracy to administer liquor deliveries, I'd still be outraged, but at least able to process this. There are a bunch of rappers, Hedge fund operators, and politicians who might need extra bottles of Cristal for a "Succession" style gathering but find it inconvenient to send Greg from their party out to fetch it. Deplorable, but understandable. But you can zip right around this inconvenient speed bump in your quest for living large, and get pot delivered straight to your penthouse. Or your rent controlled, slumlord-owned walkup.

My take? This is possibly the unfortunate end result of people who refuse to come back to the office and work. You can't spark up in your cubicle, for sure.

How does the NYC government even find itself in the middle of this crap? Not by accident, I guess. There probably were “smoke filled room” meetings between pot dispensary moguls and politicians where “something” was offered up as an inducement to legalizing same day home delivery of Aurora Cannabis Inc (listed on the NY Stock Exchange - ticker symbol "ACB"). If only we knew what that was, and who paid it, eh?

Hmmm . . I guess some things are just unknowable. Like the cosmic nature of dark matter, and dark energy. Now . . . dark pot delivery deals.

Maybe the weed delivery persons could be tasked at keeping an eye out for murders in progress, or those tens of thousands of missing public-school students? So the tax dollars spent "regulating" this farce won't be totally wasted (pun alert), eh?
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OggggO · 36-40, M
So, are you deliberately misrepresenting this, or did you just not understand the when the article said "State regulators unveiled new rules Friday allowing newly licensed retailers to make home deliveries of weed and THC-infused edible products — even before their shops open for business." that means that private business can get a license to make such deliveries, not that the government will be delivering it themselves?

And follow up, do you understand the difference between New York, a state, and New York City, a municipality?
SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F
@OggggO you are evidently reading impaired. and i even provided a link. NOWHERE do i claim "the government" is making the deliveries. i was CLEAR that the governments role was "regulatory".

or were you stoned when you read this, lol?
OggggO · 36-40, M
@SusanInFlorida
But thank God they found enough money to launch and administer pot deliveries, eh?
Between that and the scare quotes around regulatory body it definitely read as if you were saying the government would be the one doing the deliveries.

Now, speaking of reading impairment, do you or do you not understand the difference between New York, a state, and New York City, a municipality?
SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F
@OggggO it says no such thing. go back and read it again. this is why i think public schools need to be brought up to a higher standard. most people have reading comprehension problems.
OggggO · 36-40, M
@SusanInFlorida Setting aside for a moment that your implications are fairly clearly regardless of your denials, do you intend to ever answer my question?
SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F
@OggggO i love it when someone keeps retreating behind "implications" when they are called out on the facts. have you considered that your mental processes might be the cause of your misperception of implications? or is the entire world crazy, and you're the only sane one?
OggggO · 36-40, M
@SusanInFlorida I’ll ask again, do you or do you not understand the difference between New York, a state, and New York City, a municipality?
SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F
@OggggO of course. do you not understand how wildly inappropriate it is to use taxpayer dollars (or more government debt) to set up a bureacracy to aid and abet drug deliveries? why are you trying to hijack this thread? are you a pot company shareholder?
OggggO · 36-40, M
@SusanInFlorida So, if you understand that difference, why do you spend most of your post making complaints about NYC that would be irrelevant even if this was being done by them rather than New York State?
SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F
@OggggO still hijacking, lol.
OggggO · 36-40, M
@SusanInFlorida Don’t have an answer?