Assembly members Benjie Wimberly and Annette Quijano introduced
A 5211, which “updates and clarifies recent legislation passed by both Houses of the Legislature addressing cannabis legalization, and marijuana and hashish decriminalization.”
On Thursday, the
Senate Judiciary Committee released an identical bill,
S3320, passing it 7-3.
The discussion in the Assembly lasted less than 15 minutes. The first comments came from
Joe Johnson of ACLU-NJ, who began by saying, “I had prepared remarks this morning to express our opposition to the scheme on how to deal with minors caught with possession of cannabis. Fortunately, it seems that the amendments that we were just given access to kind of clear up a lot of our concerns.”