Township officials voted unanimously to ban all marijuana-related business in Mount Olive despite the state's move to legalize cannabis earlier this year.
The ban prohibits the sale, cultivation, delivery and distribution of marijuana within Mount Olive, per the ordinance. The new regulations will take effect later this month.
"Due to the detrimental impacts that permitting one or more classes of cannabis business might have on New Jersey municipalities, and our community in particular, it is at this time appropriate and necessary," read the ordinance, passed Tuesday.
Municipalities have until Aug. 21, six months from when New Jersey officially legalized marijuana in February, to decide whether they will allow sales within their borders or pass an ordinance banning it.