As you may know, April 20th (aka 4/20) is the unofficial holiday for cannabis users. So if you smell something skunky this weekend, you know why. But cannabis activists in New Jersey were in no mood to celebrate yesterday when they staged a “die in” at the Trenton state house.
Their goal: to represent all the dead medical cannabis users in NJ who are no longer with us.
So on a day when PSEG demand (and received) a $300,000,000 tax payer-funded subsidy, medical cannabis patients are begging for scraps.
“People are suffering and dying and our government is trying to exploit and tax us,” Sanjay Chaudhari told InsiderNJ, referring to NJ’s $500/oz price point + 6 5/8% sales tax. “Instead of saying ‘here is this healing medicine that many doctors have said is good for you” we’re gonna tax you and exploit this.”
Allowing medical cannabis patients to grow their own is permitted in most other states. But not in New Jersey where a very small number of political-connected gatekeepers get rich while the rest of us go broke trying to keep up.