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New Jersey Legalization Will Put Pressure on New York

It’s likely that New Yorkers will soon be rushing to the Garden State to pick up legal cannabis upon legalization in New Jersey, which appears to be drawing closer each day.

It’s likely that New Yorkers will soon be rushing to the Garden State to pick up legal cannabis upon legalization in New Jersey, which appears to be drawing closer each day.

Impending legalization in NJ will put pressure on NY– With recreational marijuana sales set to begin in Massachusetts over the summer and incoming New Jersey governor Phil Murphy poised to legalize pot as quickly as possible, there’s a good chance that hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers will soon be doing a sort of reverse commute – driving or hopping a train out to the suburbs to pick up legal weed. For more information, visit http://www.theblincgroup.com/

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