Some New Yorkers may have wondered what Mayor Michael Bloomberg was smoking when he proclaimed he has his “own army� and admitted he “smoked up” in college during an unscripted speech at MIT Tuesday.

During that speech, Bloomberg let down his guard on a wide range of topics � including his own drug and alcohol use in the 1960s.

�I don�t know where you went to school, but we were too smoked up and drunk to carry a gun,� Bloomberg said, after describing a conversation with an Oklahoma lawmaker about legislation banning guns on college campuses.

The �smoked up� comment came after Bloomberg described how powerful his job is.

�Where else would I run an organization with 330,000 employees? I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh-biggest army in the world,� Bloomberg said.

He added, �I have my own State Department, to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the UN in New York, so we have entr�e into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have.�

Bloomberg made the comments as he gave the keynote address at MIT�s Collaborative Initiative Conference, on the tech campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Bloomberg�s spokesman said there was �nothing new� about Hizzoner�s puzzling statements on Tuesday.

Stu Loeser said �he was speaking a bit euphemistically to a bunch of college students.�

Bloomberg also raised eyebrows when he said it wouldn�t be so bad to double class sizes as long as the teachers are capable, and said the reason students aren�t allowed to bring their iPads to class is because they would download pornography, causing lawsuits.

�This is Bloomberg unbound,� political strategist Dan Gerstein said. “He doesn�t have to run for reelection. I think you�re actually gonna see more of this over the next couple of years until he leaves office.�

(Source: NBC New York)