If Trenton wants more revenue, they are going to have to actually encourage people to smoke pot. As absurd as I find that notion, they shouldn't be hypocrites.
Instead of finding a solution to the tax situation in NJ, the pols decided to create a gimmick that sounded good for a headline, but set us back even further.
Spikes in marijuana roadway deaths, increased arrests among minority youth and increases in hospitalizations all add up to a terrible deal for NJ residents and taxpayers.
Well, here we go again.
The same state senator who was a sponsor of the push to legalize the medicinal use of marijuana is now looking to introduce a bill that would legalize marijuana for recreational use as well.
Senator Nick Scutari of Union County hopes to have lawmakers consider a system similar to how medical marijuana is distributed – in which the product is cultivated and sold here in stat