Ken Wolski is Executive Director at the Coalition for Medical Marijuana of NJ.
“We support this legislation despite our concerns,” Mr Wolski told InsiderNJ. “On balance the good that this bill does outweighs its limitations including a sales tax, no home grow, and the creation of the Cannabis Regulatory Commission” to oversee the program.
“This imposes another layer of bureaucracy with over a half million dollars in salaries for a program that’s already being administered by the Department of Health which is handling the program pretty well,” Wolski added.
Carly Wolf coordinates state policies for NORML, the National Organization for the Reformation of Marijuana Laws, based in Washington DC. She was back in her home state with a reminder that the sky hasn’t fallen in the dozen or so states with legalized cannabis.