Plenty of folks don’t support cannabis legalization still in 2019 and that includes quite a few lawmakers from Trenton. But to qualify for this list, the who’s who of prohibition fetishists, you must be emphatically driven to preserve the War on Drugs status quo.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Trenton’s pantheon of pot prohibitionists:
CHRIS CHRISTIE
Sure, he’s been out of office for a while, but Chris Christie brought an uncommon zeal to cannabis prohibition, a lasting burden on the 45,000 people in NJ’s medical cannabis program. If you’ve ever had to drive 2 ½ hours (both ways) just to get your medicine, you’ve had 5 whole hours to contemplate Christie’s enduring influence over the cannabis debate. If you’ve ever paid way too much for medical cannabis, you’re intimately familiar with Chris Christie’s powerful, enduring anti-pot legacy. if you’ve ever paid sales tax on your medicine, you know firsthand that when a republican says he thinks government is too big, he might be fixin’ to make it bigger
Christie wanted to be president and his “tough on crime/Just say no” persona was part of that pitch. But that gambit failed along with his White House ambitions. Chris Christie left office last year with the lowest approval rating in the history of New Jersey politics, no surprise to the growing number of NJ residents who support drug reform.