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NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be featured in an advertising
campaign by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, the
group said Monday.
The $500,000 campaign will feature bus shelter signs and telephone booth
posters carrying a quote from Bloomberg, when asked if he had ever smoked
marijuana, declaring: ``You bet I did. And I enjoyed it.''
Bloomberg made the remark to a New York magazine reporter last year before he
was elected mayor.
The Washington-based group is using Bloomberg as the centerpiece of its
campaign to urge the city to stop arresting and jailing people for smoking
marijuana.
Bloomberg said Monday that the city would continue making such arrests, no
matter what he may have said in the past.
``I'm not thrilled they're using my name,'' he said. ``I suppose there's that
First Amendment that gets in the way of me stopping it.''
The mayor didn't say when he smoked marijuana.
The campaign also will feature radio spots and a full-page ad in The New York
Times, but the group did not say if the Bloomberg quote would appear in those.
.c The Associated Press
campaign by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, the
group said Monday.
The $500,000 campaign will feature bus shelter signs and telephone booth
posters carrying a quote from Bloomberg, when asked if he had ever smoked
marijuana, declaring: ``You bet I did. And I enjoyed it.''
Bloomberg made the remark to a New York magazine reporter last year before he
was elected mayor.
The Washington-based group is using Bloomberg as the centerpiece of its
campaign to urge the city to stop arresting and jailing people for smoking
marijuana.
Bloomberg said Monday that the city would continue making such arrests, no
matter what he may have said in the past.
``I'm not thrilled they're using my name,'' he said. ``I suppose there's that
First Amendment that gets in the way of me stopping it.''
The mayor didn't say when he smoked marijuana.
The campaign also will feature radio spots and a full-page ad in The New York
Times, but the group did not say if the Bloomberg quote would appear in those.
.c The Associated Press
