New Jersey’s Black Caucus could be the state’s biggest obstacle for legalizing weed
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has made legal weed one of his pet issues, pitching it as a social justice issue and promising to legalize the drug in his state by the end of this year.
If he succeeds, the state would become the ninth state (not including Washington, D.C.) to legalize the drug and just the second state to do so legislatively, since it will be decided by the state's congress instead of voters.