8-8-19 in New Jersey

The state's going to pot again.

[Clap...clap...clap-Ed]

Via NJ.Com,:

Just three months ago, state Senate President Stephen Sweeney — New Jersey’s highest-ranking lawmaker — announced he was ending the roller-coaster efforts to pass the bill in the state Legislature because leaders couldn’t muster enough votes. Instead, Sweeney said, it would likely be up to the state’s voters to decide whether to make pot legal here, at the November 2020 ballot box.

But Garden State leaders privately believe there’s still hope, however slim, of convincing enough lawmakers to vote for the bill either during the “lame duck” session at the end of this year or in the first half of next year.

Sweeney, D-Gloucester, told NJ Advance Media on Wednesday: “I’m not going to give up trying."

Read further and reader(s) will see last year more than 34,000 people were arrested for 'marijuana offenses' in New Jersey.

We don't have a strong opinion on Legalizing It either way. Being middle-aged, pot conjures images of lay-about stoners lolling on in our cul-de-sac. We lean slightly against. 

But at some point one has to realize the ship has sailed, the horse is out of the barn, the dog barks but the caravan moves on.

Thirty-four thousand people? Jayson Christ, it ain't worth it.

We haven't gotten flared up or spent some time with Modie as we used to say in our old frat days*, since 1994. We've never missed it.