New Jersey is poised to become the latest 420-friendly state in the Union as voters are overwhelmingly supportive of the measure legalizing the plant’s recreational use that appears on Tuesday’s ballot.
Governor Phil Murphy said he’s confident that the measure will pass after voters hit the polls.
“I’m highly confident that today we will achieve a great milestone, and it is overwhelmingly a step toward, at long last, social justice,” said Murphy during an interview on Hot 97. “When I came into office, the widest white/non-white gap of persons incarcerated in America and the overwhelming reason was low-end drug crimes. And please, God, we will finally wrestle this to the ground. It’s taken longer than I wanted, but I believe we’ll get there when we have the results from today.”