As big-dollar political donors recently gathered at a Manhattan wine bar to honor one of the country’s most powerful black state lawmakers, protesters converged outside.
Black lawmakers and activists are blocking a push to legalize recreational marijuana in New York, warning that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal could perpetuate the racial inequality that it purports to fight.
As big-dollar political donors recently gathered at a Manhattan wine bar to honor one of the country’s most powerful black state lawmakers, protesters converged outside.
Ten states and Washington, D.C., have legalized recreational marijuana, and as lawmakers elsewhere consider their own laws, they seem intent on not repeating what they see as other states’ mistakes.
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