Unfortunately, Bill S10 has fallen victim to the acrimony between Gov. Phil Murphy and state Sen. Steve Sweeney, both of whom are Democrats. Will the governor and senate majority leader play nice for once and pass it into law? Their track record suggests not.
Despite Gov. Murphy’s and Sen. Sweeney’s shared leadership with the state party in power, they’ve accomplished very little in the post-Christie era, thanks in large part to their personal clashes. Sen. Sweeney insists on tethering medical cannabis reform to the larger, more complicated adult-use legalization debate.
After winning his re-election bid last year, Mayor John Ducey held a party. Many political allies and operatives were in attendance, but one man slipped by anyone’s attention until now. According to irate residents one of the attendees at last year’s victory celebration was Joel Allcock. According to Brick Shorebeat, Allcock is the Chief Operating Officer of Jersey Shore Therapeutic Health Care, the company lobbying township officials to build a marijuana dispensary in the township.
Despite failing to gain a license in the recent first round of expansion of New Jersey’s medical marijuana program, a Brick company will still seek zoning approval to operate a dispensary and construct a 48,000 square foot grow house.
As one of the largest medical marijuana operators in the nation, Columbia Care knows what it takes to launch its newest operation in New Jersey, the 14th state in which it will have a license.
The Brick Township Board of Adjustment is scheduled to resume hearing a proposal for a medical marijuana dispensary on Jan. 9.
The hearing is set for 7 p.m. at Civic Plaza, 270 Chambers Bridge Road in Brick, zoning board secretary Pamela O'Neill confirmed. Jersey Shore Therapeutic Health Care is seeking permission to turn the former Ocean First bank on Adamston Road into a medical marijuana dispensary.
And finally, the fate of a proposed marijuana dispensary at the site of the former OceanFirst Bank on Adamston Road is still unknown since a second Board of Adjustment meeting scheduled for December was postponed since the crowd was too big for the meeting room.
The meeting would be rescheduled for a larger venue at a later date.
The state is allowing six treatment centers to be opened in New Jersey: two in the north, two in central Jersey and two in the south.
Devra Karlebach, CEO of GTI New Jersey, understands that winning one of the six Alternative Treatment Center licenses from the Department of Health was actually the easy part.
“Now the real work begins,” says Karlebach of building and opening facilities in Paterson during an interview with NJ Cannabis Media.
The immediate steps are zoning.
State officials have denied applications from several entities that were seeking to open and operate an alternative treatment center (ATC) in Eatontown.
In New Jersey, an ATC is a location where medical marijuana is sold to individuals who have certain medical conditions and have been prescribed that course of treatment.
Pennsylvania and New Jersey took steps to open more MMJ dispensaries, the latest sign that the East Coast cannabis market, in particular, is gathering momentum.
While Pennsylvania’s new permits are simply regulators fulfilling what that state’s original 2016 MMJ law intended, New Jersey’s move is a distinct expansion of a system that has been in place since 2010.
Both developments underscore how the cannabis industry is ballooning as patients and doctors continue to realize the medical benefits of marijuana.
TerrAscend Corp. (CSE: TER; OTCQX: TRSSF) (“TerrAscend”) is pleased to announce that its majority owned subsidiary, NETA NJ, LLC (the “Applicant”) was awarded a permit to apply for a vertically integrated license in Phillipsburg, NJ. TerrAscend’s minority partners in the Applicant are BWH NJ, LLC and Blue Marble Ventures, LLC and its operations will include cultivation, processing and retail.