If New York legalizes marijuana, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday that he wants it to become a small business community-based industry.
While he noted he certainly has concerned about the health and safety aspects of legalized marijuana in New York, he’s more worried about the potential corporatization of the drug.
"My goal is that we avoid the corporatization of the marijuana industry,” the mayor told an audience, including two Albany lawmakers on Thursday.
“We have a chance and these two folks and their two colleagues have in their hands a chance to do something that's never been done before, to literally exclude corporate America and make sure this is a small business community-based industry,” de Blasio said, addressed the two state lawmakers.