NJ's Booker urges national talk on legalizing pot
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JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) —
U.S. Senate candidate Cory Booker urged a "national conversation" on
legalizing marijuana as he presented a wish list of reforms for the
nation's criminal justice system Wednesday, including ending minimum
sentences for low-level drug offenders and moving away from privately
run prisons.
"The gross daily waste of dollars
inside our criminal justice system is rarely discussed and it's time
that it was," the Newark mayor said during a news conference at the
Metropolitan AME Zion Church. "Mass incarceration represents an
ever-growing expenditure of taxpayer dollars producing failed results."...
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