Letters to the Editor — April 12, 2023
The Concern: The prioritization of felons over disabled vets within the awarding of licenses to run marijuana shops.
It’s a slap within the face to the women and men who serve this nation that Gov. Hochul is giving choice to convicted drug felons in terms of marijuana licenses (“Fuming at Kat’s licenses for felons,” April 11).
The place is the outrage?
We’re rewarding the drug sellers and felons, and never the women and men who serve this nation. What a shame.
Invoice McCreary
Levittown
No one must be shocked by Gov. Hochul ignoring our disabled veterans in terms of getting the fitting to function authorized hashish outlets.
I suppose it’s not sufficient to have given up a leg or an arm combating for our nation.
The governor solely cares about the place her votes come from, and he or she assumed it wasn’t from this small base, however reasonably the minorities that she panders to.
Oh, sure, and he or she now has commercials on TV that say she is allegedly “powerful” on crime.
This after ignoring the rampant crime in our metropolis for therefore lengthy to pander to her progressive friends.
She is a complete shame.
Saul Mishaan
Brooklyn
I agree 100% with Seth Barron’s probing article on the disastrous hashish implementation program (“Lethal perils of NY legalization,” April 11).
This mess is a basic instance of getting what you requested for.
From the very starting, the progressive geniuses in control of legalization promoted a enterprise mannequin based mostly on racial fairness and victimization, giving licensing precedence to people with a historical past of felony convictions for marijuana.
It’s not shocking that disabled veterans are being ignored, since they’re not a bunch embraced by the “woke” cult operating our native and state authorities.
In the meantime, unlawful pot outlets are opening everywhere in the metropolis, creating an unsafe neighborhood presence with out the advantage of garnering tax {dollars} that had been presupposed to go to the state.
To cite The Put up’s Cindy Adams, “Solely in New York, youngsters.”
Anthony Scro
Whitestone
One take a look at the images on pages 8 and 9 of Tuesday’s Put up ought to give New Yorkers a fairly good perception into what most of the authorized hashish outlets will seem like after they open.
It doesn’t matter what the state legislation is, they may keep open as late as they wish to, promote to whomever they need no matter age and turn out to be a hangout for the dregs of our society.
Gov. Hochul and the legislators in Albany who voted to permit legalized pot outlets in New York Metropolis have executed so for one motive solely — to gather taxes.
They only don’t care what felony aspect would possibly frequent these institutions so long as the cash is available in.
Dick Mills
Bardonia
The Concern: Professor Jeffrey Lax’s column on the exit of Jewish leaders from CUNY.
Effectively, at the very least the anti-Semitic coverage of CUNY is undisguised in efforts to remove something resembling Jewishness (“Anti-Semitism Now Runs Present at CUNY,” Jeffrey Lax, PostOpinion, April 7).
However the place are the Jewish leaders, who additionally promote crucial race principle and variety, fairness and inclusion?
Why is it so tough in historical past for my Jewish brethren to discern pals from enemies? Do the Individuals of the Ebook require tutoring?
Sam Frazer
Fort Myers, Fla.
As CUNY professor Jeffrey Lax eloquently acknowledged, CUNY below the anti-Semitic “management” of Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez, Saly Abd Alla and James Davis has morphed into an ideal recreation of a Nineteen Thirties German college, during which all Jewish persons are evaluated via the hate-filled lens of Joseph Goebbels and his brownshirts.
Richard Sherman
Margate, Fla.
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