The recreational use of marijuana in New Jersey could soon be legalized, and while Camden Mayor Frank Moran doesn’t care if residents decide to toke up or not, he does care if its sold in his city.
In an interview with TAPinto Camden on Tuesday, Moran said that he is not in favor of the sale of the drug for recreational use in a city where the illegal drug trade has, as the mayor described, “literally wreaked havoc” for decades.
“I’m not a big proponent of marijuana shops up and down our business districts in exchange for $100,000 a year that goes into our operating fund, to do what? … it might work in Colorado, but every town is unique and Camden is unique,” Moran said.
“You are going to have folks that are now going to come in and be businessmen that are selling [marijuana]. When on the streets, if you were caught with a few bags [of marijuana] you were in jail for two years. And you are black or brown. How does that look? Not in my town,” Moran said.