TrentonMetro's CEO, Tracey Syphax, a local entrepreneur, community activist and author, and SH New Jersey Holdings LLC have joined forces to establish a safe, efficient, and world-class medical marijuana cultivation, processing and dispensing facility for the production of high-quality, low-cost and medically-effective cannabis products in the City of Trenton.
The minority-founded company wants a highly sought-after license to operate a medical marijuana facility in New Jersey, specifically in Trenton.
“We believe that we can make a difference not only for the residents there through jobs and opportunity but to the community itself,” said Syphax, adding that the company will also teach residents how to own their own business.
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From 146 to six.
That’s the task ahead of Jeff Brown, the assistant commissioner for the Department of Health in charge of the medicinal marijuana program, as his department must review the applications for the new licenses that will be granted for six new alternative treatment centers (ATCs).
It’s not all on him – there will be a committee that will comb through the 146 applications from 105 organizations over the next two months and evaluate the several hundreds of pages of information in each application. The winners are scheduled to be announced in early November.
A Trenton man who once spent time behind bars for dealing drugs is now in the running to become a medical marijuana dealer in the Garden State.
Trenton City Council is expected to introduce an ordinance Tuesday that would designate a section of the city as a medical cannabis area.
"Who's in a better position to sell drugs than a drug dealer," said Tracey Syphax, founder of new company TrentonMetro, a health care-focused marijuana organization that filed for an application with the New Jersey Department of Health last week.
A Trenton businessman who had his drug possession and distribution charges legally erased has formed a new company hoping to get licensed to sell legal pot.
Tracey Syphax has submitted an application with the New Jersey Department of Health seeking to obtain a highly coveted license to operate a medicinal marijuana dispensary here in the capital city.
The competition is already fierce to win one of the six new medicinal marijuana licenses New Jersey will be issuing later this year.
More than 800 people — a mix of lawyers, consultants, and entrepreneurs from as far as Colorado and as close as Pennsylvania — attended a State Health Department meeting in Trenton to learn the ground rules for the application process.
In the three weeks since the state put out a request for applications for the six new medical marijuana dispensaries it will be licensing, the Department of Health said it received approximately 530 questions about the application process.
The department attempted to answer those queries at a mandatory meeting for all Alternative Treatment Center applicants Thursday morning in Trenton.
Applicant eligibility, municipal approval and financial requirements were among the hot topics at the session.
There’s no law against rubbing people the wrong way, but it seems the Mercer County prosecutor put Ed “NJWeedman” Forchion on trial for it, twice.
Sure, the prosecutor will say that’s not why Forchion, 54, marijuana activist and Pemberton native, was arrested and imprisoned for 15 months, and was unsuccessfully tried twice for witness tampering.