New Jersey weighs in on Cory Booker’s marijuana legalization bill

TRENTON, N.J. — An effort to legalize marijuana at the federal level inched ahead as New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker unveiled new legislation to end the prohibition.
But the prospects for legal recreational weed nationwide are as hazy as ever.

Booker’s bill comes as the President Donald Trump’s administration has signaled its hostility toward marijuana even as eight states and the District of Columbia have greenlighted the use of marijuana.

In New Jersey, a leading candidate for governor says he backs legalization even though term-limited Republican Gov. Chris Christie is adamantly opposed to the idea.

Christie, who heads President Donald Trump’s anti-opioid commission, which just called for enacting a public health emergency in a recent interim report, said he opposes Booker’s plan.

“We’re in the middle of an opioid crisis,” he said. “We want to send a message that other drugs are OK to take? I just don’t understand the logic there.”

Booker, who…

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