The Bordentown City Commissioners on Monday night named the final three appointments to the City's Cannabis License Review Committee as the City takes steps to prepare for the entering of cannabis businesses into the municipality.
The membership of the Committee is made up of Mayor Jennifer Sciortino, City Chief Financial Officer and Administrator Margaret Peak, Chief of Police Fred Miller and Planning Board Chairman Dan Kennedy. The three other members are to include a City resident, a business owner and a member of the City’s Economic Development Advisory Committee.
The Bordentown City Commissioners on Monday unanimously approved an ordinance to allow recreational marijuana sales in the City.
The number of cannabis cultivators, manufacturers and retailers permitted within the City will be set at a maximum of two each. One cannabis delivery service will be allowed under the ordinance. The ordinance prohibits wholesalers and distributors in the City.
Marijuana might be legal in New Jersey, but residents of most area municipalities will have to travel to another town if they want to buy some.
Only four communities in Mercer County—Ewing, Lawrence, Pennington and Trenton—are set to allow the retail sale of cannabis within their borders. Also on that list is Bordentown City in Burlington County.