During Prohibition the Jersey Shore surprisingly held the crown. Jersey being Jersey everything's done by the municipality. The police departments represent/represented the retiree natives who pay their salaries via NJ's burdensome municipal property tax patchwork. Thus, many shore towns' finest used weed busts to simultaneously wield an iron first over unruly teenaged partiers (tbh you'd feel the same way if your neighborhood had to host those mamooks) and
enforce pre-existing racial castes.Even now the legalization act's provision mandated private consumption thus banning smoking on the beach itself and I believe most shore municipalities still nominally forbid dispensaries. Granted, the entire endeavor amounted to p1ssing in the wind given the Seaside Park boardwalk routinely exuded a fresh skunk smell and anyone with 2 brain cells figured out they could chief off their balcony but it's an affront the cops even tried in the first place.
