"Ciattarelli said in a debate that he supported decriminalization but opposed adult-use legalization. “We could have addressed social injustice with the decriminalization of marijuana, not the approval of recreational marijuana,” he said." (9/22/2025)

"Ciattarelli supports allowing home grows for medical cannabis purposes only, adding that in considering adult-use home cultivation, he wouldn’t want to take “the carpet out from beneath the feet of people who’ve invested a whole lot of money because the Murphy administration failed to consider this particular dynamic,” the New Jersey Monitor reported." (9/22/2025)