When Jamil Taylor, CEO of alternative treatment center licensee Justice Grown New Jersey, set up a medical cannabis facility in Pennsylvania, he would host events called Marijuana Mondays: events where community members could show up and ask any cannabis-related questions that came to mind.
The events attracted all sorts of people, he said, across age groups and areas of concern.
“You get a broad range,” he said.
Taylor spoke on a panel alongside four out of five of the new ATC licensees on a variety of topics, including the importance of education around cannabis going beyond just patients: education of the community, education of law enforcement, and education of regulators.
The panel was hosted at Forsgate Country Club in Monroe by NJ Cannabis Media and moderated by its chief contact officer Marc Schwarz. Joy Strand, executive director of the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission, was the event’s keynote.
TerrAscend CEO Michael Nashat, Green Thumb Industries New Jersey CEO Devra Karlebach, CEO and COO of Verano New Jersey George Archos, and Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Columbia Care LLC Adam Goers joined Taylor on the panel. A representative from MPX New Jersey, which has a dispensary planned in Atlantic City and cultivation in Galloway, was not on the panel.