The township held a cannabis forum Monday night — offering information on what allowing weed businesses may look like for Cherry Hill while also hearing from the public. About 10 members of the public spoke, sharing a wide range of views — some for, some against and others unsure.
When New Jersey legalized recreational cannabis in 2021, Cherry Hill opted against allowing weed businesses, including dispensaries, into the township. Officials wanted to wait and observe the impacts of legal recreational cannabis in the state.
Should Cherry Hill get in on the weed industry? The township will hold a forum Monday evening to discuss cannabis businesses within the municipality.
The forum will immediately follow Monday's Township Council meeting and start no earlier than 7 p.m. The council meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in the Municipal Building.
The cannabis forum will include a short presentation before officials listen to public feedback. Officials will not take formal action on cannabis during the meeting.
While cannabis businesses have emerged around South Jersey since recreational legalization, Cherry Hill officials opted to keep the township out of the industry — for the time being. But the public can help determine Cherry Hill's next steps at an upcoming meeting.
The township will hold the meeting July 10 in the Council Chambers — following the Township Council meeting that begins at 7 p.m.
Officials will provide a short presentation before listening to public feedback, said Township Business Administrator Erin Knoedler.
So when Sage Diner in Mount Laurel closed after Gus and Stella Roustas filed for bankruptcy in 2017, I'm sure a lot of regulars were sad. The building has sat empty ever since. It was purchased in April 2019 by Giannakaris Enterprises and if the plan ever was to renovate and reopen as a new diner you can bet a pandemic hitting less than a year later would have put that on a back burner.
So all these years later having sat vacant and unused the building that was Sage Diner off 73 might be coming back to life. But not as a diner. Not as a condo, either.
The family operators of a Mount Laurel amusement park and a Cherry Hill country club want to offer another form of relaxation here — a weed shop.
Evesham’s planning board recently advanced the proposal after hearing Randy Lahn and Alex Lahn describe a new use for a gutted office building on Old Marlton Pike near Route 73.
The board acted weeks after approving a separate proposal to sell cannabis products at the former Marlton Diner on westbound Route 70.
To David Fleisher, it's about the fine print. Or, in this case, the missing fine print.
Fleisher, president of Cherry Hill Township Council, last week said the "quirkiness" of New Jersey's new law decriminalizing marijuana means municipalities deciding whether or not to welcome recreational marijuana businesses to their towns must do so without seeing the rules.
To create a business in an industry that is still in its infancy and because of the vagaries of the laws from state to state, the blueprint for success doesn’t necessarily exist.
“I scratched my head when I first got into it – the more I dug in I determined that I needed to come up with the blueprint for myself,” say Coleman, the chief executive officer of PG Health, LLC.
That blueprint includes a female- and minority-led team that will pursue cultivating and manufacturing licenses in the next round of applications for medical marijuana facilities.
To meet the rising demand for state-approved cannabis, the state Department of Health is reviewing 146 applications for six licenses by Nov. 1, including 51 applications vying for two licenses that will be granted in South Jersey. Four of the state's existing medical marijuana facilities, known as Alternative Treatment Centers, are also requesting state approval to add satellite locations.
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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.