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Is Recreational Weed Still in Play with New York State and City Lawmakers?
Village Voice, November 11, 2015
Is Recreational Weed Still in Play with New York State and City Lawmakers?
Last night at a meeting on cannabis policy held by the New York City Bar Association Committee on Drugs and the Law, New York City councilman Rafael Espinal said marijuana prohibition is much more harmful to minority or low-income communities than the actual effects of smoking marijuana could be for any given person. “The war on drugs, the war on marijuana, is a lot more dangerous than actually a lot of people smoking marijuana,” said Espinal, who represents the 37th District, which includes Bushwick and East New York. “[Marijuana] doesn’t create any negative effects in the individuals; the negative effect is the policing that goes on in communities of color.”
