Verano in Readington, MPX New Jersey in Pleasantville, and Columbia Care New Jersey in Vineland were granted medical cannabis cultivation permits, the New Jersey Department of Health announced Tuesday.
This marks the permitting of five of the “new six” medical cannabis businesses awarded licenses by New Jersey in December 2018. There has been movement in this space multiple times in the last two months.
With Green Township continuing to weigh the future of an ordinance allowing medical marijuana cultivation in the township, the state announced Tuesday the granting of medical marijuana growing permits to three more companies.
The committee voted 5-0 five months ago to close Trinca Airport, which opened in 1939 and uses a turf runway, effective Sept. 1.
Green Township bought the airport in 2002 for $2.28 million in order to held off a private developer’s plan for a large housing development at the site.
Phillips previously said that financial and safety factors drove the decision.
Three medical marijuana dispensaries in New Jersey moved closer to opening their doors.
Regulators awarded permits to grow medical marijuana to three more companies, the state health department said Tuesday:
- Columbia Care NJ.
- MPX NJ.
- Verano.
The cultivation licensing round advances a process that began more than a year ago in an effort to stimulate the state’s MMJ industry.
The Company's first medical dispensary in New Jersey is expected to open in Atlantic City in the first quarter of 2020. The 1,300-square-foot facility, located just off the boardwalk on S. New York Avenue, will open as a Be. retail store and will service Atlantic City's estimated 24 million annual visitors. The Company is slated to open a larger Be. flagship facility in the same location pending adult use legalization. The locations of the Company's additional future dispensary sites in New Jersey have yet to be determined.
The New Jersey Department of Health this week issued permits to three additional companies to begin growing medical marijuana. This brings the total number of cultivation permits issued as part of the Medical Marijuana Program (MMP)'s awards in December 2018 to five.
These permits were issued after comprehensive reviews including several site inspections, background checks of corporate officers and reviews of security operations and cultivation facilities.
iAnthus Capital Holdings, Inc. (“iAnthus” or the “Company”) (CSE: IAN) (OTCQX: ITHUF), which owns, operates, and partners with best-in-class regulated cannabis operations across the United States, is pleased to announce it has received approval to commence operations at its Pleasantville, NJ cultivation campus. MPX New Jersey, an affiliate of iAnthus, is the ninth Alternative Treatment Center (ATC) in the state to receive a cultivation permit. This marks the tenth state in iAnthus’ operational footprint.
The township’s medical marijuana law will be discussed Monday by the Green Township Committee but only during the committee’s executive session, which is closed to the public.
After a highly-charged public hearing on Wednesday on revisions to the township’s ordinance permitting a medical marijuana cultivation business, the Township Committee tabled the ordinance for further review.
Following the municipality’s approval to conditionally permit medical marijuana manufacturing in its AI-10 zone in July, the Green Township Committee will hold another public hearing to further amend the zoning, during its regular meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday.