They don’t want to pass grass.
A mob of some 100 angry residents angrily ripped plans for a pot shop in Islip Monday — and demanded that local leaders ban marijuana sales, which they fear will turn kids in the Long Island town into a bunch of doped out zombies.
Most speakers slammed the Town Board for even considering the proposal and argued the potential tax revenue — projected to be millions of dollars — is not worth the consequences of promoting what they described as a gateway drug.
“I’ve attended at least 10 funerals for young people lost to addiction, children that I watched start smoking marijuana in middle school and high school and went on to abuse harder drugs,” resident Corrine Winter said during the Town Hall.
“Youth marijuana use rises in communities with legal storefronts. Why? Because they lower risk perception,” Winter added.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2025/04/09/us-news/plan-to-open-pot-shop-in-long-island-town-gets-smoked-by-angry-residents/
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