And for the faint of heart, it's easy to find a place to hide when so many sloppy arguments are flying around in defense of the status quo.
More car crashes, if you twist the data so hard it screams. Children lured into the abyss, as if they don't have access to weed today. Edibles that dangerously turbo-charge the high, as if it's impossible to mark the dosage.
At a climactic hearing on Nov. 26, Sen. Ron Rice, D-Essex, called legalization a "slap in the face" to people of color, based on his own special logic that I can't begin to understand, given the army of young men of color who wake up every morning inside metal cages, courtesy of the current laws.
Sen. Gerry Cardinale, R-Bergen, cited rock hard proof that even moderate use of marijuana leaves permanent brain damage. "Is the tax trade-off going to be sufficient to have a lot of people walking around with major portions of their brains knocked out?" he asked. "I don't think so."
Do I need to comment on that one? Is it possible Cardinale sipped on a nice safe martini before delivering this unhinged rant?