As New Jersey’s residents get ready to vote on marijuana legalization later this year, a Secaucus-based company has finally been given the green light to open a dispensary in a building near the city’s PATH station.
Jersey Digs first broke the news about plans to bring a medical marijuana facility to the Mile Square City last summer. Months of discussions ensued about the local regulation of cannabis before the city eventually approved an ordinance in June clarifying its rules on medicinal pot.
The Hoboken City Council unanimously passed a sweeping medical marijuana ordinance Wednesday, opening the door for two dispensaries near the PATH Station.
It also passed the county’s first resolution opposing NJ Transit’s proposed power plant in Kearny.
The marijuana ordinance expands and amends previous legislation to establish a Medical Cannabis Review Board and a 2% medical marijuana city tax. It also eliminates a previous rule preventing more than one dispensary per city zone.
The city’s planning board will consider an application for a medical marijuana dispensary downtown next week.
Harmony Foundation, a Secaucus-based dispensary, applied to the planning board last year after Gov. Phil Murphy enacted reforms allowing dispensaries to open satellite locations.
The 5,000-square-foot location at 95 Hudson Ave. would be Harmony’s second dispensary after its headquarters at 600 Meadowlands Parkway in Secaucus. If approved, it will be the 10th dispensary in the state and the second in Hudson County, according to the state Department of Health.
A Bridgewater-based doctor is planning to open a medical marijuana evaluation office in Hoboken.
David Boguslavsky, a family doctor in Central Jersey, has been seeing medical marijuana patients for the past few years. And while cannabis isn't a "panacea that treats everything without side effects," he's witnessed the positive effects it can have with his own eyes.
Earlier this month, Harmony Foundation submitted an application to the city's planning board to build out space at 95 Hudson Street into a "state-approved medical cannabis dispensary." It would be their second alternative treatment center in the state, Jersey Digs reported.
The retail dispensary area would occupy 1,168 square feet in the middle of the building, while the rear of the property would consist of a 1,124-square-foot "lounge" dedicated to on-site consumption, Jersey Digs reported. (Read the full article)
While an effort to legalize marijuana in the Garden State went up in smoke earlier this year, it’s still been an eventful summer for pot in Hudson County. Just last month, we broke the news about a medical marijuana manufacturing facility that’s coming to Jersey City and now a building near Hoboken’s main transit hub could be getting a little “greener,” so to speak.
Legal weed in Hoboken, medical marijuana and a possible cannabis improvement district will be among the topics at a public forum on Thursday, Feb. 7.
Hoboken Councilman Mike DeFusco is spearheading the "community discussion on medicinal marijuana," which will include updates on the city's tabled recreational marijuana ordinance and the prospect of having dispensaries in the Mile Square City.
The Mile Square City is set to get together Monday evening to figure out what will be going in and where if and when New Jersey lawmakers move ahead with recreational marijuana legalization.
Mayor Ravi Bhalla's current plan calls for three establishments, whether they be a retail store, dispensary or a cultivation facility, in the more industrial parts of town. They would be prohibited from going in any residential zones.
City officials will hold a community meeting on Monday to discuss the local regulation of marijuana if -- or, more accurately, when -- state officials legalize the drug.
The community meeting will be held at the Jubilee Center at 601 Jackson St. on Monday at 6:30 p.m. Members of the council's zoning subcommittee requested the meeting be held before voting on an ordinance introduced by Mayor Ravi Bhalla's administration in order to gauge public opinion on the matter.
The ordinance, originally on the Oct. 17 council meeting agenda, was pulled.
As the Garden State looks to legalize cannabis, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has two priorities: a greater bite of revenue for municipalities and social justice.
In a recent interview with NJ Cannabis Insider, Baraka shared his thoughts on what he believes is necessary to get larger cities on board.