N.J. Governor Signs Sweeping Reform Laws Making the Garden State One of the Most Progressive Marijuana Jurisdictions in U.S. Colin Kalmbacher
New Jersey Gov.
Phil Murphy (D) signed a series of bills into law on Monday that legalize and regulate marijuana in the Garden State clearing the way for long sought after criminal justice reform.
“As of this moment, New Jersey’s broken and indefensible marijuana laws which permanently stained the records of many residents and short-circuited their futures, and which disproportionately hurt communities of color and failed the meaning of justice at every level, social or otherwise are no more,” the governor said during a largely no-frills signing ceremony which belied the grand nature of the action taken in Trenton.