The borough is the latest to ban medicinal and recreational marijuana within its borders, after getting an increased amount of interest from potential businesses.
"We've been getting requests from business seeing if the town would be objecting to it and were interested in setting up shop here," Palisades Park Mayor James Rotundo said. "We wanted to look into it, and then the calls to set up shop here started to increase."
Palisades Park's ban covers the operation of medicinal and retail marijuana establishments including retail or paraphernalia stores, cultivation facilities, product manufacturing facilities, testing facilities and retail marijuana social clubs.
The push for bans came after the election of Gov. Phil Murphy, who has been an advocate for expanding the medical marijuana program and has been pushing for the legalization of marijuana for non-medical use.