Inside the warehouse of Compassionate Care Foundation near Delilah Road, a 20-foot white shipping container sat to the left of a large, square room made of tarp-like material taking up most of the cavernous space.
While orange light peeked out from the seams of the main grow room, bright white lights illuminated the inside of the smaller container, providing artificial sunlight to 580 cannabis plants that formed two leafy green walls in the super compact vertical cultivation space.
John Lehmann, consultant and founder of LoFade Laboratories, is a southern Oregon medical grower and processor and a New Jersey native. He has spent the last seven years designing processes that blend efficiency and scientific understanding into the cultivation and harvesting process. These include irrigation methods, building soils, automatic fertilization methods, composting, sustainable practices and more.
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.
There were lawyers, bankers, CPAs and hopeful future entrepreneurs, all meeting in New Brunswick and talking about one business: the legal sale of marijuana.
The gathering of the New Jersey Cannabusiness Association at the Blackthorn restaurant in New Brunswick on Wednesday attracted a diverse crowd, with some dressed in neat blue jeans and others in suits and ties.
Among the approximately 70 people were young professionals in their late 20s and early 30s as well as a few older men with their long gray hair pulled back in a pony tail.
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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.
Take that, North Jersey: Your towns may get more state aid than similar ones in South Jersey, but we have one a "biggest" and "busiest" distinction that you don't. Not even New York City, that bastion of all things commerce, comes close.
The biggest legal dispensary of marijuana on the whole East Coast is -- ready for it? -- in an industrial park in Bellmawr.
A New York-based cannabis corporation has signed a letter of intent to help Egg Harbor Township medical marijuana dispensary Compassionate Care Foundation expand to meet increased demand.
The agreement to enter into a long-term management contract must be approved through New Jersey’s regulatory approval process, Acreage Holdings said in a statement.
Former Speaker of the House John Boehner's cannabis firm is planning to dramatically expand New Jersey's medical marijuana industry, a signal of the country's gradual but steadily growing acceptance of cannabis. Acreage Holdings, a New York-based cannabis firm operating dispensaries as well as cultivation and processing operations in 11 states, has announced a partnership with Compassionate Care Foundation, a south Jersey medical cannabis dispensary, to break ground on a new cultivation facility.
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.
Current law permits medical marijuana to be prescribed only for certain debilitating conditions.
The Assembly health committee approved the measure, with Democrats supporting it and Republicans opposed. Three Democratic members didn't vote and two Republicans abstained.