The 146 applications were reviewed by a six-person committee consisting of four DOH representatives and one each from the Departments of Agriculture and Treasury. Their expertise included medical marijuana, ATC regulation, lab testing, plant science, diversity and procurement. Prior to scoring the applications, committee members received implicit bias training from the state’s Chief Diversity Officer to ensure an impartial selection process.
Bad relationships with leaders in his own party, a weak response to sexual assault allegations against a staff member and unprecedented fiscal challenges have hampered Gov. Phil Murphy’s first year in office, according to a bipartisan panel of former governors and current academics.
They gave Murphy less than stellar grades this week at the New Jersey State League of Municipalities’ annual conference at the Atlantic City Convention Center, in a popular annual panel.
Weedmaps will be presenting “Greening Up the Garden State: Developing Responsible Cannabis Policy in New Jersey” at this year’s New Jersey League of Municipalities conference.
The event is 1 to 1:50 p.m. Nov. 14 in Atlantic City Convention Center Room 309. In addition, Weedmaps will be at Booth 423 with the New Jersey Cannabis Industry Association during the convention.
South Jersey investors and companies have been working for months to secure growing and dispensing sites, partner organizations, municipal approval, financial resources and more to put forth applications that will be reviewed and scored by state officials.
Those investors include the team of Dr. Ira Trocki, owner of Egg Harbor City Boat Co. and Northfield-based plastic surgeon, and Dr. Jon Regis, CEO and president of Reliance Medical Center.
Acreage Holdings, a New York-based cannabis company, purchased the vacant, multimillion-dollar greenhouse in Sewell last April as New Jersey's medical marijuana program exploded and the state began preparing for a potentially bustling recreational market.
The 135,000-square-foot greenhouse is adjacent to Delaware Valley Floral, a nationwide distributor of cut roses and flowers, and is located in an area of Gloucester County with scattered houses and farms. The greenhouse could become the largest marijuana cultivation center on the East Coast.
A Calvi Electric executive has applied for a use-variance to open a medical marijuana dispensary at the company’s site on Iowa and California Avenues, should they win approval from the state to operate a treatment center.
Jon Regis is a black gynecologist who heads Reliance Medical Group, a medical practice with offices throughout South Jersey. His business partner, Ira Trocki, is a Jewish plastic surgeon who once sewed up boxer Mike Tyson’s right eye after a brutal match in Atlantic City. The pair jokingly refers to themselves as "Salt and Pepper" — a play on their racial differences.
But they’re now hoping to use the interracial nature of their business partnership as a selling point in a new venture: creating a Disneyland for adult recreational marijuana on the Jersey Shore.
The scramble to open new medical marijuana dispensaries and cultivation centers across New Jersey has begun.
Gov. Murphy issued an order allowing a wide range of ailments to be treated with cannabis two months ago and the state’s five licensed dispensaries are now flooded with thousands of new patients.
Compassionate Care Foundation (CCF), a South Jersey dispensary that previously struggled to attract patients, now has ambitious plans to open two satellite dispensaries and expand cultivation by adding a 135,000-square-foot greenhouse that once nurtured a sea of orchids.
RT 40: “What did you learn from your Nevada trip? [about legal cannabis]”
MFG: “Socially, [reform] decriminalized cannabis. That’s important for any urban center because there are so many lives that have been destroyed because they have gotten some kind of blemish for having marijuana.”
RT 40: “Should the licenses be given out in a way that reflects disproportionate incarceration rates for African-Americans for marijuana-related offenses?”
A longtime medical cannabis dispensary in New Jersey has struck a partnership with Acreage Holdings, the multistate marijuana business that last month brought former House Speaker John Boehner onto its board of directors.
According to NJ.com, Compassionate Care Foundation in south New Jersey is teaming up with Acreage to construct a 100,000-square-foot grow operation.
Acreage Holdings and Compassionate Care Foundation have both signed a letter of intent for a long-term management contract for future operations and expansion plans, NJ.com reported.