Tonight, Wednesday, June 21, the Gloucester City Planning/Zoning Board will meet to decide on some different requests, including allowing marijuana to be sold from the former O'Donnells' Family restaurant/bar at 401 North Broadway.
A licensed Class 5 retail cannabis dispensary is proposed for the former O’Donnell’s Restaurant/Time Out II Entertainment Pub & Grill located at 401 N. Broadway in Gloucester City.
On June 21, 2023 at 7:30 p.m., the Gloucester City Planning and Zoning Board will hear and consider the application of Blulight CRE Gloucester City LLC to develop the former bar and restaurant into a Class 5 retail cannabis dispensary.
The property is currently improved with a vacant building.
Gloucester Township Council is considering whether recreational marijuana dispensaries should be allowed in the township, and at least one resident is warning against it.
"I've come across many children that are extremely stressed about the circumstances that they're under due to the fact that their parents are substance abuse victims," resident Leslie Soto Munoz said during Monday night's council meeting. "They are on all kinds of different drugs, but mainly stating that marijuana was the drug that springboarded them into other drugs."
Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has been hired on as a “senior advisor and consultant” for Green Leaf Medical, a New Jersey company that is looking to open a 50,000 square foot cannabis production facility and dispensary in Gloucester City’s Southport waterfront area.
The announcement surprised some who remember Nutter’s initially vehement resistance to a marijuana decriminalization measure that he eventually wound up signing into law. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the measure resulted in a 60 percent drop in marijuana possession arrests.
Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is joining the ranks of politicians remaking themselves as marijuana pitchmen.
Nutter told NJ.com late last week that he had signed on to handle community relations for Green Leaf Medical New Jersey. The multistate operator, which is headquartered in Maryland, also has operations in Pennsylvania under the gLeaf brand. Nutter was named senior adviser and consultant for the company.
Submitted by njlegalizeme on Sun, 09/09/2018 - 21:29