Jersey Shore Therapeutic Health Care is seeking to convert the former OceanFirst Bank into a dispensary and erect a 40,000-square-foot steel building to be used as a grow facility for the medical marijuana it would dispense.
The application is part of the company's efforts to get a license to operate a dispensary under New Jersey's medical marijuana program. There are currently six dispensaries operating in New Jersey; in July Gov. Phil Murphy said the state would offer six more licenses to expand access for medical marijuana patients.
The fate of the first medical marijuana dispensary at the Jersey Shore is up in the air until November.
Six new New Jersey medical marijuana dispensaries will receive state licenses, doubling the number of existing locations. Mike Davis
The zoning board on Wednesday declined to take a vote on the plan by Jersey Shore Therapeutic Health Care to convert the former OceanFirst Bank on Adamston Road into a dispensary, scheduling another hearing for Nov. 19.
The owners of Jersey Shore Therapeutic Health Care have proposed building a medical marijuana dispensary and cultivation facility at the Adamston Road property.
Under the plans, the bank building would be converted into the "patient services center," the actual medical marijuana dispensary where patients could purchase the drug.
The group has also proposed building a new 48,000-square-foot cultivation center, where cannabis could grow.
For medical marijuana patients in Ocean County, the proposal to open a dispensary in Brick Township is seen as a God-send: a facility that won't require them to drive three hours roundtrip to get the medication that relieves their conditions.
For neighbors of the proposed Adamston Road site for Jersey Shore Therapeutic Health Care, it is a nightmare in the making, a lure for dangerous violent criminals.
A meeting led by the attorney for the Brick company hoping to gain approval to build a medical marijuana dispensary and grow house shed immense light onto the details of the proposed business’s operations, but sometimes turned tense as neighbors faced off against marijuana activists who also attended.
Jersey Shore Therapeutic Health Care has applied to the state for a license to operate a medical marijuana alternative treatment center in Brick, and it is holding an information meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 2, to answr concerns and questions about its plan.
The meeting is set for 7 p.m. at the Brick Township municipal building, 401 Chambers Bridge Road.
A property in Brick that once housed a bank will be proposed before one of the township’s land use boards to operate as a medical marijuana dispensary and grow house, according to sources and documents obtained by Shorebeat.
The facility, owned by Jersey Shore Therapeutic Health Care, was one of those proposed earlier this summer to the administration of Gov. Phil Murphy, who is looking to expand the state’s medical marijuana program.
Plenty of news here in recent months as Anne Davis had hoped to bring a vertically integrated Medical Marijuana operation to Ocean County under the Jersey Shore Theraputic Health Care name. After a few widely attended meetings where voices came out strongly both for and against. Now the more recent news of plans by Brick Township to ban Recreational Sales in the future Jersey Shore THC has decided to change course to now operate only a Cannabis cultivation facility in Brick and look to open a satelite location (presumably in Ocean County?) for the retail component.
