One of New Jersey's largest cities is suing the state to prevent police officers from using cannabis even when they're off duty.
Can you tell us more about the lawsuit? Why shouldn't police officers be allowed to use cannabis when they're off duty? Every other state has a carveout except for New Jersey. So we asked the attorney general to intervene. He didn't. We asked the civil service to intervene. They didn't. So we had no choice but to file a federal lawsuit.What we did in all of the other instances is that we offered them a responsibility within the police department that doesn't entail them having a firearm. And that's what other departments do and other states do.
I mean, the standards to carry a firearm and be a police officer should be very, very high. And so just because there's issues around recruiting, which is broader than allowing somebody to smoke cannabis or not, I don't think that's a valid reason why they should be allowed to, and I think a reasonable person would agree with me on that.