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.
No one is laughing at Scutari now. Having also authored the bill that made medical marijuana legal in New Jersey in 2010, he's now the industry darling, and it shows in the amount of money lobbyists, cannabis companies and doctors have poured into his election campaigns.
In the last three years, the marijuana industry has contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Scutari and other elected officials who are leading the charge on legalization, according to data filed with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission.
Luckily for us, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union on an international level represents thousands of cannabis workers across multiple states. Like current UFCW Local 152 members, these workers in the cannabis industry across the country also wanted representation, and it is our mission as a labor union to set the highest standards throughout the industry and fight to make our member’s lives better. Wherever cannabis is legalized, it is our mission to build a successful industry with a thriving, diverse, and skilled workforce.
I attended Cannagather with much trepidation. Held at Jersey City’s Zeppelin Hall—site of numerous fundraisers for Steve Fulop, in the midst of one of JC’s fanciest neighborhoods (the Pyongyang of Jersey City, if you will)—I expected the event to be packed full of venture capital-types half my age whom I would reflexively hate. The VC guys were there, but the crowd was much different than I expected.
Lifelong Franklin resident, Assemblyman Joe Danielsen (D-17 Middlesex/Somerset), chairman of the Assembly Oversight, Reform, and Federal Relations Committee is leading discussions regarding legalized marijuana in New Jersey.
Danielsen's committee heard testimony for several hours regarding the impact of expanding legalized marijuana Monday, March 5. Currently, in New Jersey only medical marijuana is legal.