The Town Council will meet on Monday, June 8, but it has postponed any action on the proposed medical marijuana dispensary until its next meeting on June 22.
On Thursday, May 21, the Town Council had held a presentation by Green Thumb Industries (GTI), which is seeking to open a medical marijuana dispensary at 30 Pompton Avenue in the former Chase bank branch. New Jersey law requires that GTI get the approval of Verona’s governing body to submit to the state Department of Health. When GTI was licensed as a medical marijuana provider in New Jersey in 2018, licensees needed only a letter support from a municipality. But the state amended those rules in 2019 to mandate a resolution for new licensees. Neither a letter nor a resolution was included in the agenda for Monday’s meeting.