New Jersey might actually legalize marijuana this year
“Sources close to… Sweeney said” the renewed push to get legalization through would come after the November elections, most likely “during the lame-duck session between Election Day and January,” according to the Patch.
That’s a real turnaround for Sweeney, who announced in May that he was ending efforts to pass the bill because he didn’t have the votes for it. At the time, he said the most likely path to legalization was for the state’s voters to decide the issue in a November 2020 ballot referendum. But that would mean another year of pot prohibition.