Joy Hollingsworth, of the Hollingsworth Cannabis Company, checks on a young marijuana plant near Shelton, Wash. Hollingsworth family members own a marijuana farm south of Seattle, where they grow about 9,000 plants and employ 30 people at peak harvesting. Ted S. Warren — Associated Press
By Jeff Edelstein, The Trentonian
If you watched “The Good Place” – and if you didn’t, you should, awesome show, just a delight, moving and hilarious and full of deep philosophical questions – you’re familiar with “Jeremy Bearimy.” For those who didn’t watch the show – it’s on Netflix, what are you waiting for? – “Jeremy Bearimy” is the visual representation of how time flows in the afterlife. It’s called “Jeremy Bearimy” because it looks like the cursive signature of someone by that name. The point being time doesn’t exactly flow in a linear fashion post-death. For instance, the “i” in the last name? It’s described as “Tuesdays, July, and occasionally the time moment where nothing never occurs.”
This came to mind recently when I was looking for a way to describe marijuana in the state of New Jersey, because the route it has taken from illegal drug to legalized substance has been very Jeremy Bearimy-like.
This was highlighted last week when 86-year-old state Sen. Gerry Cardinale, a Republican and longtime anti-marijuana politician, introduced a bill that would allow New Jersey residents to grow their own weed
His rationalization for the bill is the most common-sense statement I think I’ve ever heard a New Jersey politician utter.
“We don’t restrict people from growing tomatoes because it’s a legal substance. We don’t restrict you from growing almost anything that is legal to be grown,“ he told Politico.com. “To make marijuana an exception seems to me to only be able to create a private center for the people who are getting the licenses.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: It turns out that NJ Republican Senator Cardinale’s bill is not the ‘latest’ word in self-grown marijuana legislation. Democratic State Senator Troy Singleton has jumped in with his own version allowing for medical marijuana patients or their caregivers to register as home cultivators and grow up to four mature marijuana plants and four immature plants. It is more restrictive than Cardinale’s bill that would legalize growing up to six plants.
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