In its lame duck session, the New Jersey state legislature has an important vote regarding whether to allow the question of adult cannabis use on the November 2020 ballot and from what I learned this past week, not only is much of the nation watching, but at least one of our neighboring states may have some hidden hopes that the legislation will fail and no referendum will be allowed.
I am really just a citizen observer regarding the happenings in Trenton and although I am relatively new to this area of the law, this legislation is of importance to me professionally. My involvement with this issue has come relatively recently when I joined a delegation from New Jersey in the summer of 2018. During that very well-organized visit, the participants were given tours of all variations of businesses which make up the medical and recreational marijuana industries in Nevada.
Shortly thereafter, I was chosen to be local counsel for Columbia Care which was awarded one of the six licenses in the last round for the cultivation and dispensing of medical marijuana in Vineland. Since that time, I have been retained to consult for another national company determining if it wants to make the significant capital contribution required for a vertically integrated project.