Media has Become Theater of the Absurd in NJ with Regard to Legal Weed

This morning News 12 reported that "after some months of deliberations, New Jersey is ready to open their first legal marijuana shop."  

"Some months?"

Look, we all know the media does not like to criticize Democrats or hold them to any standard whatsoever, but Phil Murphy stated during his first gubernatorial campaign in 2017 that "the first thing" he would get done in office was legalizing weed.  That was FIVE years ago, not "some months" ago.

Don't get me wrong, I am not a weed-head and would rather it not be legalized at all (call me crazy, but legalizing a gateway drug when 2021 saw the most overdose deaths in NJ state history isn't smart, in my humble opinion), but Phil failed miserably to get pot legalized.  Technically, he never got it legalized at all; the people of this state did.  After 3 years of failure to get his Democrat-majority in the legislature to legalize weed despite the fact that the governor is the de facto head of his state's party, the weed coalition managed to get weed legalization on the ballot as a question, and the people approved it.

Phil then slowed the process down by appointing a committee, choosing his members by diversity, equity and inclusion, of course, and it took the committee a year and a half to get this done.  Maybe they were all stoned for the last 18 months and worked r-e-a-l   s-l-o-w-l-y.

Of course, come Monday, I expect Phil to take victory lap, bragging about getting this done.  And the adoring media will proudly report this as some great accomplishment for the governor, but again, the reality is that Phil was completely ineffective at legalizing weed and did little to get this done in any semblance of a timely manner.  Kinda like how it took thousands of deaths for Phil to reverse his incredibly moronic policy of forcing COVID patients into nursing homes.  But the media never took him to task for that, either.