The Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee gave approval yesterday to Assembly Resolution 183, which urges Congress to pass the federal “Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act of 2017.” According to the resolution, this bill would prohibit “federal bank regulators from punishing banks that service marijuana businesses and by prohibiting federal bank regulators from discouraging banks to do business with marijuana companies”, which would “improve public safety in New Jersey and would allow marijuana businesses to fully utilize the banking services offered in the Stat
Stockton University will be the first in New Jersey to offer an academic program on marijuana — a minor in cannabis studies.
The new program comes as Gov. Phil Murphy wants to legalize recreational marijuana and expand the state’s medicinal program, which now has 30,000 enrollees.
In 2016, New Jersey police arrested some 32,000 people for marijuana possession, more than every state except New York and Texas, despite both of those states having much larger populations.
Data from the FBI shows that New Jersey also had the second highest arrest rate for marijuana possession in the country, behind only Wyoming.
Green Leaf Medical’s CEO Philip Goldberg expects to submit a medical marijuana dispensary application by Aug. 31, the final day for submissions as allowed by the New Jersey Department of Health Division of Medicinal Marijuana’s Request For Applications, announced on July 16.
In its current fundraising efforts to support expansion, the company has raised $6 million toward an $18 million goal.
Green Leaf is one of 14 companies currently licensed to operate a marijuana growing operation in Maryland. It also holds a processing license, awarded by the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission last year.
The company currently operates a 45,000-square-foot cultivation facility in Frederick and a processing lab in Bishopville. The operations produce cannabis flower and concentrate products under the "gLeaf" brand name.
Marijuana users in New Jersey — which is on the verge of legalizing weed — are arrested at the highest rate in the nation by local police departments, some of which report that more than a third of their arrests were for pot, a USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey investigation found.
There were 32,279 marijuana possession arrests in 2016 — more than murder, rape, assault or any type of theft, according to the latest data available from the FBI's Uniform Criminal Reporting program. The FBI tracks nearly all arrests across the nation.
Marijuana users in New Jersey — which is on the verge of legalizing weed — are arrested at the highest rate in the nation by local police departments, some of which report that more than a third of their arrests were for pot, a USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey investigation found.
There were 32,279 marijuana possession arrests in 2016 — more than murder, rape, assault or any type of theft, according to the latest data available from the FBI's Uniform Criminal Reporting program. The FBI tracks nearly all arrests across the nation.
The argument that marijuana legalization will help poor black and Latino people has been made vociferously in New York and New Jersey, where national groups that back legalization, such as the Drug Policy Alliance, have teamed up with clergy and civil rights groups.
Have you ever heard of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)?
Neither had I, until 2011 when I was diagnosed. A progressive disease that affects the autonomic nervous system much like muscular dystrophy, it is characterized by constant and intense pain.
For years, doctors threw opioids at the symptoms. At one point, I was on a potent cocktail of Oxycontin, Dilaudid and morphine, and was spending more time in the hospital due to the side effects of the drugs rather than my underlying condition. I was living in a haze and felt disconnected from the world around me.
There’s a new green monster in town: Legal recreational marijuana sales are about to hit the East Coast for the first time -- a possible tipping point for the surging, multi-billion dollar weed industry.