Efforts to legalize marijuana in New Jersey are in the air.
Single-engine prop planes — hired by two separate organizations — dragged pro-weed banners through the skies Saturday over the South Jersey beaches. The banners urged state residents to vote yes Nov. 3 on a ballot measure to legalize recreational cannabis use.
Polling shows that roughly three out of five Jersey voters support the measure, which would allow marijuana sales to all adults 21 and over.
The Mile Square City could soon become New Jersey’s Mile High City.
With the legal recreational marijuana on New Jersey’s ballot in November, cannabis companies are rushing to secure places in Hoboken. Colorado-based medical marijuana company Terrapin is the latest company to go public with plans to open a Hoboken dispensary, announcing the move in a Wednesday press release.
While most are hedging their bets on Pennsylvania’s impending recreational legalization, industry insiders know that the real story is happening in New Jersey. According to a recent Clarus report, Pennsylvania is expected to continue building on its rapid growth that has contributed to TerrAscend’s (OTC:TRSSF) foothold as one of the fastest organic revenue growth rates in the U.S. cannabis sector thanks to the strength of its Ilera unit in Pennsylvania (PA). However, New Jersey is the market with a promising outlook as the key revenue driver over the next two years.
Two-thirds of likely voters say that they back a November ballot initiative to legalize the adult-use cannabis market, according to polling data commissioned by the law firm Brach Eichler LLC and initially reported by Marijuana Moment.
Sixty-six percent of respondents — including 77 percent of Democrats, 58 percent of Independents, and 56 percent of Republicans — said that they support adult-use legalization. Those percentages are similar to those reported last month in a separate poll, which determined that 67 percent of those surveyed endorse the ballot measure.
New Jersey voters are strongly in favor of a referendum to legalize marijuana that’s on their ballots this November—and most support of setting a tax rate for cannabis that’s higher than the standard sales tax—according to a new survey.
The poll, commissioned by Brach Eichler LLC, showed that 66 percent of likely voters back the legalization measure, which was placed before voters by the legislature. That’s about five percentage points higher than when residents were surveyed on the issue in April.
The Lacey Township Committee voted unanimously last Thursday to prohibit the sale of recreational marijuana in Lacey. The governing body also voted 4-1 to allow the zoning of a medical marijuana dispensary in the business park.
New Jersey voters will decide in the November election whether to legalize recreational marijuana in New Jersey. Some towns, such as Lacey, have passed ordinances banning its sale in the event that voters choose to legalize it in the Garden State.
The township committee on Tuesday voted 4 to 1 change the township's land use code, allowing for medical marijuana dispensaries in the Lacey Township Business Park.
The committee also voted unanimously on an ordinance to ban recreational marijuana sales, if the ballot measure to legalize weed in New Jersey passes. That ordinance will hold a public hearing on Sept. 10.
With less than 80 days until Election Day, the campaigns for and against New Jersey marijuana legalization have been eerily quiet.
What has been a wall-to-wall media blitz in other states has been barely a blip on the New Jersey political spectrum, ever since the state Legislature last year — after years of Democratic leaders trying to pass a marijuana legalization bill themselves — punted the issue to the voters, placing a proposed state constitutional amendment the ballot.
Newark NJ: NJ CAN 2020, a ballot campaign with the mission of getting to a “yes” vote on adult use cannabis legalization in New Jersey, has started the next phase of campaigning with the launch of NJCAN2020.org, an online clearinghouse for the ballot question and a portal for building grassroots momentum.
This interactive tool will serve as:
The campaign to pass a referendum to legalize marijuana in New Jersey has launched a new interactive website to build grassroots support for the November general election.
NJCAN2020.org is set up as a virtual clearinghouse to help voters learn more about cannabis legalization. The site will also provide a platform for grassroots organizing and a dialogue with stakeholders.