On May 1, 2019, the City of Newark Municipal Council adopted Ordinance 18-1970 (the "Ordinance") by a 7-0 vote amending several sections of the City’s Land Development Ordinance to permit as conditional uses medical marijuana alternative treatment centers, medical marijuana cultivation facilities, medical marijuana manufacturing facilities, and medical marijuana safety compliance facilities (collectively, the “Medical Marijuana Uses”) in specified zoning districts within the City. The majority of the public who attended the hearing were in support of the amendment. Hon.
Nevada faces complaints about secrecy in awarding licenses to sell marijuana in the state's booming legal marketplace, boiling over into lawsuits and legislation that appear poised to pry open the process.
Several companies have sued the state tax department, arguing that no one knows for sure the criteria officials use to award new licenses. They complain the state releases no information about who seeks and receives permission to sell cannabis to adults, many of them tourists, in the nearly 2-year-old market.
Borough resident Josephine Guttadauro asked the council about an application to open a marijuana dispensary at The Galleria saying, “Everyone I’ve spoken with in town has no knowledge of that actually happening. Why would we do that in our community? We have to look at the adverse effects. My question is, “Did you approve to open up a dispensary in Red Bank?””
Adult-use marijuana legalization is likely to be voted on by the entire state Legislature as soon as early next week. But since the bill was finalized Monday night, many lawmakers are concerned they haven’t been given enough time to thoroughly digest and assess its major points.
Lawmakers have said if the legalization bill doesn’t pass on Monday, it’s unlikely the medical marijuana expansion bill would pass, and that it all could be stalled until after the November elections.
That concern is real enough that the administration has a backup plan ready to roll out, NJ Advance Media has learned.
No medical marijuana dispensaries will be coming to Gloucester Township. Gloucester Township Council authorized a resolution to repay five entities that had bid on bringing a dispensary to the township Monday night.
The vote took place after it was revealed that the township was no longer among those being considered for a dispensary. The New Jersey Department of Health recently announced the six new locations in which medical marijuana dispensaries will be set up, bringing the total number of dispensaries statewide to 12.
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.
Three years after marijuana extracts became legally available in New York for medicinal purposes, legal recreational use of marijuana appears to be on the fast track.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced it as one of his priorities for the legislative session this winter, and with both houses of the Legislature now controlled by fellow Democrats, New York has a chance to become the 11th state to legalize recreational marijuana use by adults.
Zoning approval is required because the bank property sits in a residential zone. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the municipal building.
Jersey Shore THC is in a unique situation. The company had hoped to win one of the six new state Department of Health permits to operate a medical marijuana dispensary in New Jersey but didn't have the required zoning board approval.
Instead, the state didn't award a contract to any dispensary operator eyeing the Jersey Shore, giving the two Central Jersey permits instead to proposed locations in Elizabeth and Ewing.
Some Brick residents contacted Shorebeat on Monday, confused as to whether the planned hearing on a proposed medical marijuana dispensary and grow house was still on schedule to be taken up by the township’s Board of Adjustment on Wednesday.
The short answer: yes, the hearing will be held as planned at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Civic Plaza, 270 Chambers Bridge Road.