If the state government enacts legislation to legalize and regulate recreational cannabis, there would be yet another roadblock that could stifle the growth of a potentially budding industry: the stigma around marijuana.
That was the red flag coming from the Thursday-evening panel “Cannabis — After the High” at the Westin Governor Morris Hotel in Morristown, hosted by the Association for Corporate Growth New Jersey.
The four-member panel featured Stacey Udell, director of valuation and litigation services at accounting firm HBK; Ashesh Shah, founder and CEO of Solo Sciences, a company that provides patent verification to certify the authenticity of a product; Peter Kelly, a partner at law firm Fox Rothschild LLP; and Brian Staffa, a partner and chief operator at BSC Group, a cannabis operations consulting firm.