Another month has gone by, another "deadline" has been missed and another state has voted to legalize weed before New Jersey.
Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester, set a goal of voting on legal weed by Oct. 29. It was the fourth "deadline" missed by the Legislature, which creeps closer to missing Gov. Phil Murphy's vow of legalizing marijuana before year's end.
Now, legislators are targeting the Monday after Thanksgiving as the next milepost in the push for legal marijuana in New Jersey.
But don't bank on it.
Since the last missed deadline, another state has joined the legal weed ranks: Michigan voters approved Proposition 1, which will legalize marijuana and charge a 10 percent tax on sales, which are expected to begin in 2020. And in Utah and Missouri, voters passed measures to expand medical marijuana access.