Municipal officials in Freehold Borough have advanced the possibility of allowing a medical marijuana treatment center to operate in town following a business operator’s proposal to establish such a facility on Throckmorton Street.
During a special meeting on Aug. 19, members of the Borough Council passed a resolution supporting the expansion of the New Jersey Compassionate Use Marijuana Act, which provides legal protection for the cultivation, processing, dispensing and use of marijuana for medical purposes.
The Borough Council voted unanimously Monday to support the first-ever medical marijuana dispensary in the municipality after a group seeking to open a facility made a presentation at a special council meeting.
But that is just the first step as the proposed site still needs approval from the state Department of Health.
Garden State Botanicals, a new corporation formed by pharmaceutical veteran Pat Nasshorn of Margate, will make a presentation to the governing body at a special 6:30 p.m. meeting Monday — being held in advance of a Thursday deadline to apply to the New Jersey Department of Public Health.
Nasshorn told the Press she spent 40 years in the drug industry as a marketer and strategic planner for Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb, and wanted to open the dispensary to help those in need of medical marijuana.