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Pot and Social Justice in NY and NJ
As the New Jersey legislature gets ready to vote on recreational marijuana legalization, New York continues to work on it.
WNYC New Jersey reporter, Karen Rouse, and Amol Sinha, executive director of ACLU New Jersey, talk about how each state is approaching social justice issues like record expungement and who gets a license to sell.