The state Legislature will vote Monday on whether or not to legalize the drug, but Murphy isn’t confident it’ll be an easily won battle.
“This is going to be really close and the senate president, the speaker and I are going to have to lay it out completely to get this thing over the goal line,” he said.
The plan is to make marijuana legal for anyone 21 or over, tax and regulate the drug and clear the criminal records of low-level offenders.
“The big steps forward that have been taken in social justice has really caught a lot peoples' attention,” Murphy says.