The state is asking residents what initiatives aimed to repair harm done by the drug war should be funded with cannabis tax revenue.
The deadline to submit a written comment is Jan. 20 at 5 p.m.
When weed was legalized in New Jersey, a percentage of the tax revenue was slated to go toward social equity initiatives centered around healing the harm from the War on Drugs.The market itself has just begun clearing regulatory hurdles and is now in the process of building out a cannabis market centered around the local business — a promise that has been continuously monitored by community members and drug reform advocates since the current market is an oligopoly of larger companies.
Those companies were given carve-outs by the Legislature and the Governor’s Office with the rationale that they would be the most qualified to get the market started - something those same advocates have voiced skepticism over.Among the most common was what many participants in the last meeting described as a lack of transparency from the Legislature and the Governor’s Office on where the current tax revenue was going and what it was being spent on.
“Last budget cycle was the first time that funding from cannabis revenue was available for community reinvestment,” said ACLU campaign strategist Ami Kachalia in the November meeting. “In almost five months after the budget was signed into law, it remains unclear how these funds were spent and that’s a problem.”
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