Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (CSE: CURA) / OTCBB: CURLF) (“Curaleaf” or the “Company”), a leading vertically integrated cannabis operator, today opened its fourth dispensary in New York State. Located at 255 Glen Cove Road in Carle Place, Long Island, the new location will provide medical cannabis patients in Nassau and Suffolk counties easier and more convenient access to necessary medicine. This new location will be the company’s 36th dispensary.
A Joint Appropriations Committee of the Legislature heard from 100 witnesses, mostly about the legalization of adult use cannabis, in a marathon session last week. But the bill that contains changes to the state’s medical marijuana program is the one that will have the most immediate impact on the state.
The bill makes some significant changes to the program:
The Brick zoning board of adjustment will hear continued testimony on Jersey Shore Therapeutic Health Care, which hopes to open the first medical marijuana dispensary at the Jersey Shore and build a new 48,000-square-foot marijuana growing facility behind it.
Zoning approval is required because the bank property sits in an otherwise-residential zone. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the municipal building.
Jersey Shore Therapeutic Health Care is seeking to convert the former OceanFirst Bank into a dispensary and erect a 40,000-square-foot steel building to be used as a grow facility for the medical marijuana it would dispense.
The application is part of the company's efforts to get a license to operate a dispensary under New Jersey's medical marijuana program. There are currently six dispensaries operating in New Jersey; in July Gov. Phil Murphy said the state would offer six more licenses to expand access for medical marijuana patients.
A medical marijuana facility to be located on Route 22 in Union was unanimously approved by the Planning Board at a recent meeting.
Compassionate Care Research Institute, LLC, doing business as Garden State Dispensary, will be located at 2536 Route 22 East. According to testimony at the Planning Board meeting, Compassionate Care’s Woodbridge site is currently one of only six alternative treatment centers licensed by the State of New Jersey to dispense medical marijuana to patients.
The ordinance would amend the town’s zoning code to prohibit selling, growing, and distributing recreational marijuana. It would not impact medical marijuana, legal in the state since 2010, nor would it impede on recreational marijuana use, should the New Jersey state legislature legalize it. Secaucus currently has one medical marijuana dispensary.
New Jersey’s plan to expand the medical marijuana business in the state has drawn 146 applications from would-be providers, more than 24 times the number of new dispensaries expected to open.
Applicants had to identify which region of the state they hoped to operate their Alternative Treatment Center: 50 applications came from the north, 45 in the central part of the state and 51 in the southern area, the Governor’s Office said in a news release Wednesday.
As Massachusetts moves to open the East Coast’s first adult-use cannabis dispensaries, a new ruling from Bay State Attorney General Maura Healey will guarantee that medical marijuana patients can access their medicine locally, no matter how much individual towns might oppose legal weed.
Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday that the state Department of Health received 146 applications from 106 organizations looking to join the state's growing medical marijuana program.
Officials announced July 16 that the state was requesting applications for six new medical marijuana dispensaries to add to the existing six operational ones, including Compassionate Care Foundation in Egg Harbor Township.