Yes We Cannabis!
Gurbir Grewal wants to reform NJ’s marijuana laws. He was set to issue new prosecution guidelines, a sort of decrim-light, when Jersey City prosecutor Jake Hudnut scooped him.
That delighted cannabis activists but frustrated the Attorney General who maintains the Jersey City model, no matter how instinctively pleasing to reformers, actually diminishes the discretion of law enforcement.
“I can’t have folks prosecuting cases however they wish because of their personal agenda regardless of which way they follow this issue,” Grewal told InsiderNJ, warning that opens the door for an anti-pot prosector somewhere else in NJ.
“And the other piece Jay is that when you do something like this, it has to be done in close coordination with law-enforcement,” Grewal told InsiderNJ. “With all the stakeholders. So whenever I have issued a directive here, it has effects on law enforcement, it affects stakeholders. So I’ve had them at the table and that’s my philosophy. You’ll always have a seat at my table, we may not always agree, but you’ll always be heard out and you always have a voice.”