N.J. celebrates its first legal 4/20 by lighting up joints in Trenton
Updated 12:15 PM;
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After years of calling on New Jersey to legalize weed, Garden State activists, entrepreneurs and medical marijuana patients took a victory lap Tuesday — celebrating outside of the Statehouse by lighting joints and taking a sigh of relief.
4/20, the unofficial weed holiday of unknown origins, has a new meaning in New Jersey this year. Two months ago, Gov. Phil Murphysigned laws that decriminalize up to six ounces of marijuana and outline a legal cannabis industry for people 21 and older.
But work remains both to set up the industry and ease access for medical marijuana patients, who have long complained about product shortages and high prices. There’s still stigma, too; many cities and towns are contemplating ordinances that would ban weed businesses in their borders, even though nearly municipality in the state voted in favor of a ballot question to legalize marijuana.