The New Jersey legislature voted to legalize the sale of marijuana on Thursday in a move making New Jersey the first state in the region to legalize the drug.
The New Jersey legislature voted to approve the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act (S21). The vote is in line with the majority of New Jersey electors voting in favor of a constitutional amendment to legalize marijuana. S21 legalizes the use of marijuana for certain people, decriminalizes possession of small quantities of marijuana and removes marijuana as a Schedule I drug. Given that S21 regulates marijuana similarly to how alcohol is regulated, only persons aged 21 and older could use and buy marijuana.
