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Reefer madness: There’s a standoff on State Street over marijuana legalization | Mulshine
Updated Jan 27, 2021;
Posted Jan 12, 2021
Edward Forchion, also known as NJ Weedman, tells a legislative committee about the problems he has with the marijuana-legalization bill at a hearing on Nov. 26. His predictions about the difficulty of implementing that bill seem to be coming true. (Aristide Economopoulos/NJ Advance Media.)NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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“I wasn’t supposed to be there,” Sweeney told me.
The only reason for calling the session, he said, was to pass so-called “clean-up legislation” on the marijuana legalization bill that passed both House last month. But the sponsor had pulled the legislation.
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This could still get you up to five years in prison even after legalization in New Jersey. (Creative Commons)
Marijuana Policy
New Jersey s Marijuana Decriminalization and Legalization Bills Have No Provision for Home Cultivation, Which Remains a Serious Felony. The bills to implement voter-approved marijuana legalization and to decriminalize possession in the meantime have no provisions allowing for the home cultivation of the plant. Under current state law, growing one plant is punishable by up to five years in prison, while growing 10 plants could earn up to 20 years behind bars. That strikes long-time Garden State activist Ed NJ Weedman Forchion as unjust, to say the least. Big guys, corporations, they can violate federal law in the state of New Jersey and grow tons of marijuana, Forchion argued. But a little housewife down in South Jersey
Instead of opposing marijuana legalization Republicans should have pushed for a free market in weed | Mulshine
Updated Dec 20, 2020;
Posted Dec 20, 2020
It will be legal for New Jersey residents to possess pot after Jan. 1, but they may have to wait 18 months before the bureaucracy permits dispensaries to open.
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Aren’t Republicans supposed to believe in free markets?
I fear the Grand Old Party is a bit confused on this issue.
The confusion traces back to the Reagan administration. Back then, the government made great efforts to crack down on the black market in marijuana.
But at the same time the administration was attacking the socialist governments of places like Cuba and Nicaragua for their insistence on shutting down their own black markets, often in necessities such as food and clothing. Consider this passage from a 1985 New York Times article: