VIDEO: Why New Jersey Efforts to Legalize Recreational Weed Have Failed
Michael McQueeney, co-chairman of Genova Burns' cannabis practice group in Newark, joined Cheddar to discuss why the Garden State hasn't been able to turn green.
Michael McQueeney, co-chairman of Genova Burns' cannabis practice group in Newark, joined Cheddar to discuss why the Garden State hasn't been able to turn green.
Kathleen Connelly, an attorney with Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper P.C., said the difficulty from the employer standpoint is the tension between understanding that people see benefits from cannabis in medical treatment but also needing to ensure these individuals aren’t under the influence while performing job duties.
The law makes it clear that employees can’t be intoxicated during working hours, Connelly said, but there haven’t been the test cases in courts yet to be clear-eyed about what will pass for evidence of an employee’s on-premises cannabis use.
“Today’s legislation creates a medical marijuana program that is modernized, compassionate, progressive and meets the needs of patients,” said Governor Murphy.
The changes to the law include:
When the idea was advanced that New Jersey might become the region’s first legalized marijuana marketplace, one of the auxiliary benefits proposed was that it had potential to lift real estate markets that may have gone overlooked.
As businesses hurried to set up shop, a wave of real estate deals would be a boon for all, it was said.
Attorney Gene Markin said that excitement has been fast fading.
The Cannabis Law special committee that was recently created by the New Jersey State Bar Association reminds co-chair Michael Schaff of Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer of another special committee he was a member of more than 25 years ago.
“In the ’90s, I was involved in a new special committee – the Computer Law Committee of the State Bar. That also took off fairly rapidly,” Schaff says. “It was helpful in formulating laws.”
Students enlisting in the minor will take Introduction to Medical Marijuana (GEN 2347), Cannabis Law (GSS 2198), Internship Preparation (GEN 3XXX) (including Cannabis research and a basic understanding of small business operations), and one elective course that can be chosen from a variety of select general education courses. The fifth course is an internship during which Stockton students can intern in a wide variety of disciplines in the field of Cannabis Studies, including energy efficiency, cultivation, retail, social media, and patient research.
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