The Sunday night murder inside a Harlem “smoke shop” near the corner of 125th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard — the second shooting in the neighborhood in the last year — is a savage reminder of the state’s stupendously disastrous legalization of marijuana.
It’s hard to identify another policy rollout — even in the era of bail reform — that was so misconceived and poorly executed.
However you feel about the repeal of marijuana-prohibition laws, New York went about it in an asinine manner. Instead of timing possession decriminalization to the licensed legalization of sales, the state embraced a Wild West approach, virtually eliminating the entire criminal code pertaining to marijuana overnight.
Instead of building in a speedy protocol to license the legal sale of pot, progressive state lawmakers, besotted by a woke vision of the pursuit of equity, decided to reserve the first retail licenses for felons and other “justice-involved” individuals.
Legal marijuana would be, first and foremost, a vehicle for reparations.
The same thing is going to happen in Maryland!
WEED should still be ILLEGAL everywhere in America !!! What’s next Cocaine ??
Fentenyal will kill the weed business !!!!!!
Cartels are STUPID to use Fentenal & kill their customers off !!! DUGH What sense does that make ????
No customers = No $$$$ !!!!