In an opinion piece published on NJ.com on July 24, 2022 (Former AG: Local prosecutors need to step up and shut down New Jersey’s Illegal cannabis market), former New Jersey attorney general Chris Porrino urges rigorous enforcement action against unlicensed cannabis merchants whose “activity is unsupervised, unregulated, untaxed and potentially unsafe.” While criminal laws should be uniformly enforced (if only because the failure to do so breeds contempt for all law), is this not another war on drugs, this time for the benefit of tax collectors and those lucky (or connected) enough to get a license?
Jay Bohn
August 22, 2022