As mass protests over police killings of black Americans continue across the U.S., there’s a renewed push in New York to pass a package of criminal justice reform legislation that includes marijuana legalization.
The Safer NY Act is a collection of five bills that have been previously introduced and largely focus on policing reform, but it also contains legislation to legalize cannabis for adult use.
Sen. Julia Salazar (D) said in a press release this week that legislators should take up the package right now in order to “help increase police transparency and help increase accountability to New Yorkers’ most common encounters with police.”
Part of that means “legalizing marijuana with strong attention paid to ensuring that resources are reinvested in communities most harmed by prohibition,” the release says.
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