Chirlane McCray said Thursday that she “loved marijuana” when she was younger and that she backed legalizing weed — putting her at odds with her more uptight hubby, Mayor de Blasio.
“I believe we should legalize it,” she said on “The Breakfast Club” on radio station Power 105.
“There’s a lot of money that’s going in someone else’s pocket. I don’t think people should be penalized and punished for using it, but I think it should be highly regulated,” she said, apparently referring to profits made by pot dealers and the legal marijuana industry.
McCray said she that stringent regulations were needed to make sure that young people don’t have easy access to legal pot.
“I loved marijuana when I was a young person and I know it can be difficult to stop using,” she said, adding that New York “needs to think about how we can legalize it, but make it less accessible” to young people.
Hizzoner does not support legalizing marijuana, but slammed Attorney General Jeff Sessions — an anti-pot zealot — for threatening to crack down on states that have legalized recreational marijuana, accusing him of having a “vendetta against legalized marijuana.”
He repeated his opposition Thursday.
“I’m not there yet,” he said, adding that he wanted to see how legal weed works out in other states that have legalized it.
“It’s not that legalization makes the world a perfect place,” he added.