South Orange to Hold Meeting Aug 20 to Consider Allowing Medical Marijuana Treatment Center
Message from the Office of the Village President
August 17, 2018
South Orange Neighbors,
Message from the Office of the Village President
August 17, 2018
South Orange Neighbors,
A local boat-maker is looking to get into the marijuana business.
City Council last week approved a resolution authorizing the preparation of a redevelopment plan for the Egg Harbor City Boat Co. building at Philadelphia Ave. and Duerer Street.
Council voted 7-1 to approve the resolution, with Councilwoman Carol Kienzle casting the lone negative vote.
The question on the ballot will read: "Shall the City of Vineland permit the siting of medical marijuana cultivation and dispensary alternative treatment centers within the geographic boundaries of Vineland?"
The measure was approved unanimously and without debate at the City Council meeting on Tuesday night.
In New Jersey, the state government has opened the licensing application process in order to increase the number of medical marijuana companies from six to 12. (Source: “New Jersey launches application process to double medical cannabis licenses,” Marijuana Business Daily, August 13, 2018.)
On top of that, the state is reportedly looking into a recreational marijuana bill that could hit the state legislature as early as next month.
Emmett Vandergrift, a representative of Evergreen Curative Care LLC, a New Jersey-based medical marijuana organization, recently presented Lower Township Council with a request to consider supporting a medical marijuana dispensary in Lower Township. He said that his company would manage such a facility in partnership with Sea Hunter Capital Management.
It would be up to the Planning Board to develop suggestions on how those facilities would be regulated in the zones.
The council took the unusual step of holding a special public comment period for the resolution, during which it heard mostly supportive comments for the resolution.
The comment session as led off by state Assemblyman Joe Danielsen (D-17) who told the crowd about the months of hearings and other research he conducted prior to creating a bill modifying current medical marijuana law.
Stephen Sweeney, New Jersey Senate President and co-sponsor of an ambitious bill to expand medical cannabis access and legalize marijuana for adult use, told reporters that he expects the state Senate to hold a vote on legalizing cannabis as early as September. But exactly what lawmakers will be voting on is still unclear. The current proposal, a combined medical and adult-use bill, still needs revision and debate in committee before it can come to a vote.
Sitting in her office overlooking the Navesink River, Beth Stavola laughs now as she tells the story of a night she spent in Arizona when she first got into the medical marijuana industry.
“I have this vivid recollection of lying in this Holiday Inn-type hotel, staring at the ceiling, asking myself, ‘What are you doing on the border of Mexico, waiting for your approval to operate from the Department of Health?’ ” she recalls.
She had found a place for a dispensary in Douglas, Arizona. Her husband was back home in New Jersey recovering from surgery.
A Calvi Electric executive has applied for a use-variance to open a medical marijuana dispensary at the company’s site on Iowa and California Avenues, should they win approval from the state to operate a treatment center.
The competition is already fierce to win one of the six new medicinal marijuana licenses New Jersey will be issuing later this year.
More than 800 people — a mix of lawyers, consultants, and entrepreneurs from as far as Colorado and as close as Pennsylvania — attended a State Health Department meeting in Trenton to learn the ground rules for the application process.
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