New Jersey regulators approved the first 18 annual adult-use cannabis business licenses for the state’s marijuana market.
According to a Thursday news release, the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC) approved eight applications for annual licenses and another 10 applications to convert existing conditional permits to annuals.
Conditional licenses are an important step for those new businesses to work on securing real estate and financing, gaining municipal approvals and, ultimately, receiving annual licenses.
“With the awarding of eight cultivation licenses and three manufacturing licenses we are setting good groundwork for New Jersey’s cannabis market,” the commission’s chair, Dianna Houenou, said in a statement.