Chris Goldstein

So many writers warned us about techno-tyranny.

Now it's good vs evil.

During 2025 regulated cannabis is set to become New Jersey's 3rd largest industry.

Weed sales within NJ's borders will surpass the global sales of all the agricultural products produced on every farm in the Garden State.

Val Kilmer was a good human. And a pretty funny guy.

He was also a regular client onboard our Santa Fe, NM Learjet...

Some weeks we'd have separate flights for Val, Gene Hackman, Shirley MacLaine or other celebrities...all back and forth to Burbank.

Thank you Cory Booker!

Truly proud that my votes in New Jersey help send this human to the US Senate.

Always outspoken on cannabis legalization, here's Senator Booker meeting with marijuana reform activists in 2017.

Pennsylvania Taxpayers Spend Billions On Marijuana Criminalization While Neighboring States Reap Benefits Of Legalization (Op-Ed) “People carrying less than one ounce of weed make up 45 percent of all substance possession arrests in Pennsylvania. That amount would be perfectly legal in most surrounding states.” By Chris Goldstei...

my latest OPED for Marijuana Moment and NORML looks at 11 years of marijuana arrest data in Pennsylvania = it's costing taxpayers billions to arrest cannabis consumers with a few grams

www.marijuanamoment.net/pennsylvania...

Price Gouging is Killing NJ’s Medical Cannabis Program | Heady NJ Large companies have no good reason to charge double in New Jersey’s medical cannabis program compared to Pennsylvania or New York.

I just listened to more than a dozen New Jersey medical cannabis patients testify about improving the program to the NJCRC...unaffordable prices were the biggest issue.

Here's some tracking on those product prices across multiple states headynj.com/dispensary/p...

Governor hopefuls say it's time to allow New Jerseyans to grow their own cannabis • New Jersey Monitor Four Dems and one Republican hoping to become governor say medical and recreational cannabis users should be able to grow their own plants.

“Governors now appoint cannabis commissioners and even adjust taxes. Each candidate should have a clear picture for how they will grow and improve the programs,” Goldstein said.

[ newjerseymonitor.com/2025/03/24/g... ]

"When you're going through Hell, keep going." - attributed to improvised wartime rally speeches by Winston Churchill

A tyrant is shutting down our government to loot the public coffers.

The ultra-rich have put our country on a war footing with our friends, while embracing our enemies.

This is the history of humans again and again.

However, America is always The People, never 'government.'

We can do better.

"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. -- it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated."

Thomas Paine - The American Crisis

NJ legal weed joints found with more bacteria, less potency than advertised, study says Members of the Safe Leaf Society sent pre-rolled joints for testing and found higher microbial levels than allowed and less potency than advertised.

What's in your ouid?

Potency levels listed on regulated cannabis labels are not accurate...

www.app.com/story/news/l...

day 60 of living with the first AI-assisted tyranny

Former New Jersey Senator Running For Governor Says ‘It Is Time’ To Let Medical Marijuana Patients Grow Their Own Plants A former New Jersey Senate leader who’s now running for governor says “it is time” to give medical marijuana patients an option to grow their own cannabis plants for personal use. He’s also pledging t...

"New Jersey residents face some of the highest regulated prices in the country and inconsistent product safety. Allowing a few personal gardens won’t hurt the billion dollar industry,” = me about Steve Sweeney supporting medical cannabis home grow

www.marijuanamoment.net/former-new-j...

former NJ Senate President and now gubernatorial candidate Steve Sweeney endorsed medical home cultivation yesterday - this is a big shift as he previously opposed any homegrow legislation

www.instagram.com/p/DHUFsf_B19...

N.J. cannabis fails safety tests, consumer group finds Private labs test weed for contaminants before it goes to dispensaries. Consumer groups charge cannabis companies seek labs that are less likely to fail their products.

“Lab shopping has been endemic in the industry,” = my quote

Cannabis consumers and registered medical patient implicitly trust product labels ... despite little oversight

www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/2025/03...

NEW = independent lab testing reveals serious safety issues with New Jersey's regulated cannabis supply

Pre-rolls had very unsafe mold/pathogens

Pre rolls tested for potency (THC) failed with levels 1/3 or 1/2 of what was on the label

info www.safeleafsociety.com/data-1/proje...

7 leaf clover = extra lucky

Choosing cannabis over alcohol = Going green for St. Patrick's Day!

#StPatricksDay #cannabis #ouidbebetter

Intoxicating Hemp Swindle | Project CBD California lab tests expose massive fraud, illegal products & the cannabis equivalent of ultra-processed junk food

the jig is up on the "hemp" scam

projectcbd.org/hemp/intoxic...

S1393 - a bill that would allow medical cannabis home cultivation in New Jersey just gained another important cosponsor - Senator Nilsa Cruz-Perez of Camden County

Next week will mark a full year since I was invited to the White House by Vice President Kamala Harris for a roundtable on cannabis justice.

By now we would have been working on national, federal legalization with a Harris admin.

So far, Donald Trump has ignored the plant, again.

lazy, ineffective leaders tend to make war on the poor

Tyrants always appear popular, until they are deposed by We The People.

New Jersey: Allow Patients to Grow Their Own Medicine S 1393 will allow state-qualified patients the option to home-cultivate personal use quantities of cannabis.

and support home cannabis cultivation!
norml.org/act/new-jers...

New Jersey: Don’t Recriminalize Cannabis Purchases Contact your lawmakers!

New Jersey residents oppose S4154 - a bill from Senate President Scutari that would restart prohibition

norml.org/act/new-jers...

frankly: All cannabis advocates underplayed their hands under Biden/Harris.

imo our community didn't know how to respond to the first White House willing to work on reform with tangible actions.

Descheduling was possible, the incrementalism lobby won SIII = a dead end smh

Why is Donald Trump so scared of America's most popular flower that he can't speak her name?
- When on the ballot side-by-side Cannabis gets more votes than Trump
- Russian biz people + many Republicans make $$$ on state-regulated cannabis permits

What could be happening:

"President Harris announces plans for national cannabis legalization"

vs what's actually happening...again:

"Donald Trump completely ignores cannabis"

#alt47

Tyranny requires treason.

Freedom requires action.

Don't buy any corporate cannabis today.