August deadline for N.J. towns to decide if they want legal weed businesses may be extended
Assemblyman Christopher Tully, D-Bergen, introduced a bill Monday (A5921) that gives local elected officials an additional 60 days beyond the Aug. 21 deadline to enact an ordinance either welcoming or banning adult-use cannabis businesses from opening in their communities.
As it stands now under the law Gov. Phil Murphy signed in February, local officials who take no action by the deadline would have to abide by a standard set of rules for five years. The law was written this way in order to allow the potentially multi-billion-dollar industry more opportunities to succeed.