The wait to purchase recreational cannabis from a legal source in New Jersey continues. And if you’re currently high on weed you bought off the black — or “gray” — market, it’s going to seem even longer.
The Cannabis Regulatory Commission yesterday was expected to approve some of the medical dispensaries already opening to begin selling recreational weed to any adult who wants it in a month. But they didn’t do that. (They did schedule a special meeting for next month, so maybe they'll get around to it.)
It’s been more than a year since New Jersey legalized recreational weed. And while I assumed it would take longer than the “plus or minus six months” that Gov. Murphy predicted, I figured by now they’d have it together by now.
People are frustrated, no doubt. But not necessarily every pro-pot person. “Legal weed advocate Chris Goldstein tweeted that the big corporations that run the medical dispensaries “will have to wait for an equitable opening day - alongside small biz- for cannabis sales in NJ.”