New Jersey is just a few days away from potentially passing a bill that would legalize recreational marijuana in the state.
Whoopi Goldberg, an Oscar-winning actress and a co-host on The View, is doing her part in helping to make sure the bill pass.
She has called several state lawmakers to help New Jersey’s Gov. Phil Murphy and his fellow Democratic leaders get enough votes to pass the bill on Monday.
According to NJ Advance Media who cited three sources, Goldberg lives in West Orange, had called a handful of women lawmakers who are either on the fence or leaning against the bill.
The comedian also wrote an op-ed about the bill that was published Friday in USA Today as well as other Gannett news outlets.
“As I have grown older, and questionably wiser, I have maintained a healthy relationship with marijuana,” Goldberg wrote. “I now use marijuana, through a vape pen, to relieve headaches from glaucoma.”
“For countless adults across New Jersey, myself included, marijuana has never been about getting high just for the sake of it,” she continued. “And, that’s something that lawmakers on Monday need to remember. The unhinged and dire doomsday prophecies of some simply have not come to fruition elsewhere, nor will they in New Jersey.”
