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The Democrats who control the State Assembly, many of them black or Latino residents of New York City, saw a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana as a simple matter of justice: too many black and Latino men were being arrested because, after being stopped by the police, they were forced to empty their pockets.

After having a governor and a president admit that they've done cocaine, Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo's acknowledgment Monday that he "experimented" with marijuana when he "was a youth" seems just plain tame.