The two ordinances were introduced at the last meeting on May 3.
The first ordinance was to make the parking lot at Sea Watch Beach for only cars with a seasonal parking permit. The ordinance would also ban all overnight parking in the lot.
The other ordinance would ban all marijuana consumption on municipal properties, including the beachfront.
That statement was added to the previous versions of the township’s land use and police regulations ordinances.
The amended ordinances remove that statement from the previous versions and replace it with the regulation that pursuant to A-21, “all cannabis establishments, cannabis distributors or cannabis delivery services are hereby prohibited from operating anywhere in the Township of Upper Freehold except for the delivery of cannabis items and related supplies by a delivery service.”
The first ordinance introduced would see the change to borough code regarding smoking on the beachfront, with now anything cannabis-related being on the banned list, with a fine of $200.
I’m a baby boomer/grandmother who lived in New Jersey most of my life — until four years ago when I moved to Colorado to assist family that lived out here.
I am not a marijuana user myself, but I’ve been around people who enjoyed what drinkers might call “happy hour,” which amounted to a bud in a tiny pipe or maybe a joint. It’s never been my experience to see someone “stoned” on marijuana, but rather relaxing after a hard day of work, just like my parents did with their own one-drink “happy hour” at home.
Provided by state Sen. Vin Gopal (D-Monmouth), here are photos of the ribbon cutting at Garden State Dispensary in Eatontown last Thursday.
This is the first medical marijuana shop in either Monmouth or Ocean counties. It is located at 59 Rt. 35, near the entrance to the old Fort Monmouth property.
"This medical facility will play an important role in helping thousands of patients in Monmouth County," said Gopal, who attended the ribbon cutting.
Garden State Dispensary will open the first medical marijuana dispensary in Monmouth or Ocean counties on Thursday, the state's Department of Health said.
The department issued Garden State Dispensary a permit on Monday to open a satellite dispensary at 59 Route 35, near the entrance to the former Fort Monmouth property. The dispensary received state approval to open last year and then had to fulfill the regulatory requirements for the permit.
New Facility is 12th Dispensary Statewide, First in Monmouth County
The New Jersey Department of Health today announced it has issued a permit to Garden State Dispensary to open a satellite dispensary in Eatontown. The Eatontown dispensary is the 12th facility dispensing marijuana for medical use in New Jersey and the first in Monmouth County.
The Eatontown location is set to open Thursday, September 17. Monmouth County has 7,341 patients in the program, the 4th largest enrollment by county. Garden State Dispensary currently has two sites in Woodbridge and Union.
Monmouth County’s first medical marijuana dispensary will be opened in Eatontown on September 17, according to the New Jersey Department of Health.
The county has 7,341 patients in the program. The state has 86,000. The facility will be the twelfth in New Jersey. This one will be a satellite dispensary run by Garden State Dispensary.
“Expanding access to our growing patient population continues to be a high priority especially during these unprecedented times,” said Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli.
The Township Council this week introduced an ordinance that would allow for dispensaries to operate along the Route 9 corridor, one of the only towns in Ocean County to formally endorse medical marijuana.
"It's not that we have somebody who is interested in opening a dispensary. We're just allowing it to happen," Mayor Ken Baulderstone said in an interview. "We have residents whose doctors have given them prescriptions for medical marijuana, and it makes a lot more sense for them to go to a dispensary near where they live."
Researchers said seven counties saw more than 2,000 marijuana possession arrests in 2017: