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New York Reaches Deal to Legalize Recreational Marijuana
- samizdis 6y agoBloomberg report cited in Forbes article: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-tax-report/deal-reached-to-fast-track-legalizing-marijuana-in-new-york-1 https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-tax-report/deal-reached-...
- mikestew 6y agoI wondered how long they’d hold out with everyone around them, including their Canadian neighbors, legalizing it. That’s a lot of tax revenue going somewhere else. And sure enough, that’s pretty much what those quoted in the article said.
- dizzy3gg 6y ago60k jobs can’t hurt post COVID
- LatteLazy 6y agoThe amount for localities (3% of 350m is 10m) seems pretty measly but good news...
- chadlavi 6y agoUseless without restorative justice for incarcerated people with weed raps.
- sokoloff 6y agoWhat is the idea of restorative justice here? There’s no victim for these crimes-at-the-time to be “restored”. Related, I’m in favor of immediately releasing all non-violent possession and non-violent street-level distribution charges (and I doubt my view is uncommon).
- runawaybottle 6y agoI would want at the very least to have it expunged from their record and not count as an arrest/conviction. I think at bare minimum we can afford that.
- sokoloff 6y agoI’m on board with expunging the convictions as well. The arrest is a fact that’s harder to change. Federal security clearance asks about any arrests; it’s still illegal federally; I don’t think lying will work well (lying on a security clearance question is worse than the underlying facts), but that’s a bit of a corner case and no reason not to do the 99% effective action you propose.
- chadlavi 6y agoJust that, release and expungement. The incarcerated person is the victim here.
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