At an event in East Windsor over the 2020 budget late Wednesday afternoon, Gov. Phil Murphy said he had not quite digested everything about Senate President Steve Sweeney’s announcement earlier in the day of the recreational marijuana legalization effort’s discontinuation for 2019.

Sweeney said lawmakers would suspend efforts to pass legislation legalizing recreational use of marijuana for those 21 and over, but go ahead with bills that seek to expand the state’s medical marijuana program and provide for expungement of criminal records for minor marijuana offenses.

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