Mayor Colleen Mahr told this week’s work meeting of the Borough Council that discussions will begin on whether to allow the licensing of cannabis in the Borough.
When the recreational sale of cannabis to adults in New Jersey became legal in 2021, municipalities were given six months to either opt in or out. If municipalities did not act within those six months, any class of cannabis establishment or distributor would have been permitted to operate in the municipality and, depending on the type of establishment, be considered a permitted use in certain zones.
The Borough Council voted to opt out in 2021 to understand what the extensive rules would be for the industry. Those rules had not been set and the Council wanted to see how municipalities were advancing this idea. Since the Borough opted out during the established time back in 2021, it can now opt in at any point.