The Anthony Cumia Show - April 24, 2025


Medical Cannabis in Public Spaces： Lefty from Bayonne ｜ 04-20-25


Episode Stats


Length

11 minutes

Words per minute

164.37

Word count

1,866

Sentence count

108

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

sentences flagged

Toxicity

13

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Hate speech

8

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Summary

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Lefty in Bayonne calls in about medical marijuana use in New York City, and why he doesn't think it's a good idea. Plus, a call from a first-time caller about marijuana use on the streets of NYC.

Transcript

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00:01:00.060 Lefty in Bayonne.
00:01:02.200 Lefty. You can
00:01:03.780 tell it's the New York, New Jersey
00:01:06.020 segment of the program.
00:01:08.140 Lefty, what's up, my friend?
00:01:11.140 Anthony,
00:01:12.060 long-time ONA listener,
00:01:14.080 first-time caller.
00:01:15.520 Whack, whack.
00:01:18.060 The station you're on,
00:01:19.720 I love it. I listen to it all day,
00:01:21.640 every day, for years.
00:01:22.680 Well, this station, every DJ stigmatizes medical cannabis.
00:01:30.600 I'm a medical patient here in New Jersey.
00:01:32.380 Oh, okay.
00:01:33.040 Give me the lowdown, brah.
00:01:37.100 Every DJ on the station stigmatizes the smell of it.
00:01:42.020 Now, how do you know that you're smelling?
00:01:44.080 You're not smelling a disabled vet smoking cannabis for PTSD or a cancer patient or someone with MS. 0.98
00:01:49.700 you got a lot of sick people in there in new york and here in new york in new york at least 0.65
00:01:55.460 you can grow your own weed here in new jersey we got the senate president the democratic
00:01:59.600 senate president scutari who's blocking home grow hearings we can't even have hearing can i can i
00:02:05.760 tell you all right first let me answer your first question how i don't know that it's a vet or
00:02:11.960 someone with a medical problem stuff i i don't think anyone's ever seen me take my my lipitor
00:02:18.620 or any of my other medications that I need to take at my age
00:02:23.240 for blood pressure or cholesterol.
00:02:25.120 I don't walk down the street and just pop them in my mouth and take a swig.
00:02:28.800 I do that at home to remedy my medical issues that I have.
00:02:34.820 I just can't take a medicine seriously if you smoke it
00:02:40.740 while you're walking around with families and children
00:02:43.600 as they're looking at the Empire State Building or the M&M store in Times Square.
00:02:48.620 well where are they supposed to go to smoke it because it's home do it at home for god's sake
00:02:56.740 do you and by the way do you just have to smoke all the time 24 hours a day a joint has to be in
00:03:04.100 your mouth it's like and how about gummies i've heard gummies are very good and you could get
00:03:09.780 those at dispensaries where you could get pot so like how about that you pop a gummy and then you
00:03:15.200 leave your house it just seems like a lot of people are smoking a lot of pot on the streets
00:03:20.260 and they they don't seem to be people doing it for medical issues i'm not a doctor i play one on
00:03:26.240 the radio but i just don't think they're doing it for medical reasons
00:03:30.940 anthony you're gonna love this we're having a hot party on tuesday at an old sex shop in avanel 0.53
00:03:38.000 yeah if you know the old sex shop and i tell you we cleaned it out there's stuff going on in there 0.93
00:03:44.560 that I can't even believe that I'm finding.
00:03:46.640 I don't even know what they are.
00:03:49.540 It's probably herpes or AIDS.
00:03:52.660 I'm going in there with a black light.
00:03:54.320 I'm going to make a video with a black light
00:03:55.820 just to show what happened in there over the years.
00:03:58.980 Light up like Venus.
00:04:02.660 Tuesday, Thursday, and I have an L at the old sex shop. 0.82
00:04:05.320 Come on down. 0.95
00:04:06.300 Well, you have fun, Lefty.
00:04:07.820 I appreciate the call.
00:04:09.060 Thank you, my friend.
00:04:10.520 He goes, Lefty. 0.98
00:04:11.340 yeah i mean i i'm not gonna be like lefty you're an ass but the people walking around 0.99
00:04:20.800 reeking out manhattan are not i don't think they're medical it's not like well let me oh 0.99
00:04:28.280 my prescription let me go to the store and get my prescription and now oh take uh as directed
00:04:35.380 by physician uh twice daily all right let me light up my that's not what's happening
00:04:43.040 and new york city i don't know if a lot of people know this it's a tourism city it's you walk around
00:04:53.260 there are children and parents god knows why they take them there they got to be a little
00:05:00.700 titched in the head i know i see like germans all the time germany people seem to want to i want to
00:05:07.960 go to the times square and you're like what do you what are you out of your mind don't take your kids
00:05:14.480 there but they do and you just see these people drug addicts pot by the way is the least of the
00:05:24.180 worries you see them cut they're shooting up constantly shooting heroin right there on the
00:05:33.440 sidewalk as as little little tots are walking by uh trying to see you know the uh uh i can't even 0.96
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00:06:02.420 know what country my accent is supposed to be from but uh yeah what are you doing don't take
00:06:09.640 your kids and i'm sorry lefty this isn't a medical thing that isn't the weed we're smelling
00:06:16.000 that's not the weed we're smelling is from some medical problem oh my god jay another new jersey
00:06:26.980 and jay from the amazing city of newark new jersey jay how you doing tonight what's going on buddy
00:06:35.960 Hanging.
00:06:36.560 First of all, you're hanging in there.
00:06:39.240 Yeah.
00:06:39.700 First of all, just listen to his message.
00:06:41.940 You blocked me on Twitter.
00:06:43.560 You got to unblock me, bud.
00:06:44.660 But here, listen, about the weed here, the whole situation with the weed.
00:06:48.340 Yeah.
00:06:49.520 Go into a Chinese restaurant.
00:06:51.920 You want to enjoy your meal.
00:06:53.440 Yeah.
00:06:53.680 You take your eight-year-old son, you and your wife,
00:06:55.780 want to have a nice dinner out, right?
00:06:57.420 Sure.
00:06:58.500 You have a couple come in.
00:07:00.600 You know where they're probably from, and when you see them sit down,
00:07:04.200 they order their meal um as they're waiting for their meal they go back up to their car smoke a
00:07:10.160 giant blunt blow the whole place out with weed you can't even breathe in this place you're just
00:07:16.340 trying to enjoy a meal and they just want to get stoned just to eat their their their you know
00:07:21.480 their their ramen or whatever they're gonna do you know so they blow the whole restaurant out
00:07:26.240 just because it's all about them and nobody else yeah and it smells like i smoke weed all the time
00:07:32.380 And guess what?
00:07:33.100 I can go to the store.
00:07:34.300 Guess what? 1.00
00:07:34.700 My wife drives all the time because she doesn't like my driving. 1.00
00:07:37.740 And we go out to go shopping, and she's the chauffeur.
00:07:40.980 And I'll hit that weed the whole time on the little vape, and nobody smells a thing.
00:07:45.280 Dude, you did.
00:07:45.960 And there's no arguments.
00:07:47.520 Everything's great.
00:07:49.020 All right. 1.00
00:07:49.840 You never fight with the old lady, you know? 0.96
00:07:51.860 I'm going to completely change the subject here. 0.99
00:07:57.240 Sure.
00:07:57.600 But it involves what you said.
00:07:59.920 I do the same thing. 0.99
00:08:01.240 i don't drive unless i have to drive somewhere myself my girl drives that's the way to roll and
00:08:07.300 but but how many times to like pulling into a parking space do you go like
00:08:12.980 you like make noises and they go what what are you saying why are you why are you mad at me
00:08:20.020 dude the invisible brake pedal is a great right it's frightening i swear to you yeah there are
00:08:27.500 times i'm like i'll see a yellow light and i'll be like you don't want to go stop because then
00:08:34.180 they yell so i'll just make a noise you don't want to say anything though because it's going
00:08:37.540 to create an argument all hell breaks loose yes all hell breaks loose i don't know i never
00:08:43.880 hear the end of it and by the way this is only because there isn't a good car out these days
00:08:51.580 i would buy a good car i bought the mustang the years ago i bought the oh yeah yeah there's a
00:08:57.480 snake yeah i remember all that yeah dude i've been looking around for a car because i don't want
00:09:01.820 i don't want my girl driving me around i want to drive myself but i don't want to drive like
00:09:07.760 the driving the gmc around and stuff and i'm just like yeah drive you drive whatever
00:09:13.400 and then i find myself yeah with the invisible brake pedal and stuff but i cannot find a good
00:09:19.120 car there's nothing now that i see that i go god i want that listen well here here's the deal listen
00:09:25.820 And I was called, before all this stuff went down,
00:09:28.860 I was called every name in the book by every liberal ever.
00:09:32.600 Yep.
00:09:33.060 Oh, yeah.
00:09:33.720 Oh, yeah.
00:09:34.240 I was taking it all over my face, buddy.
00:09:37.280 All right.
00:09:38.520 Yeah.
00:09:39.080 So all this stuff happened.
00:09:40.560 Now, all of a sudden, what happened now?
00:09:42.740 Because my wife drives a Model Y, Tesla.
00:09:46.300 And guess what?
00:09:47.260 I don't have to do brakes on it.
00:09:49.080 I don't have to do oil changes.
00:09:51.620 You got to try on that.
00:09:53.340 No, ain't going to happen.
00:09:54.600 I want internal combustion, vroom-vroom-sounding motors.
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