New Jersey State regulators have approved the license application for a second company to open a medical marijuana dispensary in Hoboken. The state license, approved earlier this month, is the last step in the process allowing Terrapin to open in the city.
Terrapin filed a lawsuit shortly thereafter claiming that Harmony never submitted an application to Hoboken’s Medical Cannabis Review Board as part of their application. Under regulations established last June, prospective dispensaries have to submit a “favorable report” amid other requirements before opening.
There’s an unsettling sense of deja vu to recent headlines of big cannabis raids in states that have legalized, from California’s Emerald Triangle to Colorado’s Front Range.
The upswing on such raids in the latter recently won some national media coverage, which provides fodder for opponents of legalization — and for those who favor a more restrictive model of legalization, in which there is no right to home cultivation.
Chris Woods:
Every plant here has an RFID tag. And this is logged seed to sale.
John Ferrugia:
Chris Woods is President Of Terrapin Station, a company that cultivates and dispenses marijuana and THC products for both medical and recreational use. And this is what a legal pot business looks like, complete with special grow lighting.
Chris Woods:
There is a perpetual cultivation cycle that is happening throughout this facility.
John Ferrugia: