The CRC says that workers have the right to use marijuana on their off-time but adds that businesses also have the right to keep a drug-free workplace.
“Employers have the right to maintain a drug-free workplace…Employers may require an employee to undergo a drug test upon reasonable suspicion of an employee’s usage of cannabis or cannabis products…” the CRC wrote in its guidance.
In a 3-2 vote on last week, the state's Cannabis Regulatory Commission voted for the sales expansion of Ascend Wellness in Fort Lee, NJ Advance Media reports.
In August, the company began selling recreational marijuana out of its Montclair location, and its Rochelle Park began doing so in April.
A positive drug test combined with documented signs of impairment might be enough for an employer to fire or reprimand a worker who is high on the job, according to guidelines released Friday by the state panel overseeing cannabis.
But a scientifically reliable test showing cannabis in the worker’s body on its own is insufficient to support adverse employment action, the guidelines say.
New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission (NJ-CRC) officials are touting a new user-friendly, comprehensive platform debuting on Sept. 12, noting it enables patients to better manage their care.
Exclusive documents obtained by Bloomberg under New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act show that the state cannabis regulatory commission issued citations to seven companies from January 2020 through mid-April 2022, when marijuana sales broadened from medical to recreational. There were a total of 54 alleged violations.
Excerpt from public documents on New Jersey cannabis citations.
Curaleaf is expected to go before a state panel in two weeks to obtain final approvals to expand its 1 ½-year old medical dispensary in Bordentown Township and begin selling adult recreational weed.
If the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission gives approval at its Sept. 9 meeting, a Bordentown Township official anticipates adult weed sales to commence soon after at the Curaleaf medical cannabis dispensary located at 191 U.S. 130 North.
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In the continuing growth of the retail cannabis business in Jersey City, the council (with Councilman Rich Boggiano absent) unanimously gave their support to four retail cannabis applicants.
The four are Ufoira at 138 Griffith St. in the Heights, Jersey Leaf at 554 West Side Ave. on the West Side, Butler & Baldwin at 75 Martin Luther King Drive in Greenville, and Decades Dispensary at 404 Central Ave., also in the Heights.
Adult users now can buy from 18 dispensaries scattered around the state that also serve medical patients. The CRC has issued 140 conditional legal weed dispensary licenses, but none have opened.
The social equity fees, which are due on each sale of an ounce of recreational cannabis, is at the rate of $1.10 per ounce, according to the CRC and state Treasury Department.
New Jersey collected more than $4.6 million in tax revenue in the first 10 weeks of legal weed sales in the Garden State.
Nearly $79.7 million in total sales of recreational marijuana was recorded between April 21 and June 30, the end of the second fiscal quarter, according to the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission and state Treasury Department.
More than $59.2 million in medical marijuana was sold during the same quarter.
The CRC said retailers and delivery services would not be permitted to sell or deliver more than:
- 28.35 grams (one ounce) of usable cannabis;
- Five grams of solid cannabis concentrate or 5 milliliters of cannabis oil.
- Vaporized formulation containing more than 5 milliliters of cannabis oil.
- Multiple ingestible cannabis products containing more than 1,000 milligrams of THC.
- More than 28.35 gram (1 ounce), or the equivalent, of any combination of usable cannabis and cannabis products.