Chirlane: Let’s make pot legal

MAYOR de Blasio may not be ready to support legalizing marijuana — but his wife is.

“I believe we should legalize it because I don’t think people should be penalized and punished for using it,” Chirlane McCray said during a radio appearance on Power 105.1’s “The Breakfast Club” with de Blasio that aired Thursday morning. “But I think it should be highly regulated. I think what’s happening is people see it as a cash cow.”

The city’s First Lady said she was concerned about the sale of edible marijuana in the form of candy and other things attractive to kids — and, counter to what many advocates for legalizing marijuana say, noted she did believe it could be a gateway drug and addictive.

Asked whether she’d had substance abuse issues, McCray said “absolutely.”

“I loved marijuana as a young person, and I know that it can be difficult to stop using. I know that,” she said.