State Trooper Thomas Clardy’s Widow Featured in Massachusetts Anti-Marijuana Ad

Reisa Clardy appears in the latest No on 4 video, which points to drugged driving.

A new video from the campaign opposing marijuana legalization in Massachusetts features the widow of state police trooper Thomas Clardy, who died in a roadside collision in March.

Clardy was stopped at the side of the road on the Mass Pike in Charlton when a vehicle crossed three lanes of traffic and collided with his cruiser. Police believe the man who was behind the wheel of that car, 34-year-old David Njuguna, was under the influence of marijuana at the time.

“Obviously, I was very upset trying to understand how an adult, a grown man, could get behind the wheel after smoking marijuana and think that it’s OK,” Reisa Clardy says in the minute-long clip, alongside photos of her husband, her family, and her husband’s coffin. “With this bill, I don’t feel like we would gain anything from it. I think there’s...

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