At least one of the nearly 150 applications made to the New Jersey Department of Health for licenses to operate six new medical marijuana dispensaries is interested in setting up shop in Burlington County.
Fresh Harvest Group, a Delaware-based company linked to a New England-based cannabis operation known as Nature’s Remedy, has a letter of intent to lease 46,000 square feet of space in a warehouse/office building off Veterans Drive in the Commerce Square section of Burlington City for an alternative treatment center where medical pot will be grown, processed and sold.
The deal is contingent on the company being selected by the Department of Health for one of six new dispensaries being licensed under an expansion of the state’s medical marijuana program.
Fresh Harvest may also need approvals from the city Land Use Board and City Council to operate in the building, since the existing zoning does not specify medical marijuana growing, processing and sales as a permitted use. The city owns the land where the building is located, so the council’s approval is needed, city officials said Monday.
If the business receives the state license and local approvals, it would become the first medical marijuana dispensary to open in Burlington County since the state launched its medical cannabis program.