Rutherford could soon allow retail cannabis establishments, but with certain restrictions. The proposal stipulates that no retail cannabis setups would be permitted within the Park Avenue, Union Avenue business districts, or any areas west of Route 17. Only adults aged 21 and above would be able to purchase cannabis products, and sales would be subject to state and local municipal tax. The borough stands to gain two percent of all class 5 license sales, if this goes through.
Wood-Ridge Mayor Paul A. Sarlo has organized 10 of his fellow local elected officials in southwest Bergen County in an agreement for a coordinated policy regulating the cannabis industry within their municipal borders.
The Mayors and governing bodies of the municipalities in southwest Bergen County have determined that it is in the best interests of their communities to establish ordinances regulating the cannabis industry within their municipal borders.
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East Rutherford is the latest municipality to ban the sale of recreational marijuana in an attempt to get around proposed state legislation to make it legal.
The council voted unanimously to prohibit any dispensary intended for the sale of non-medical marijuana, or any of its psychoactive derivatives, throughout the borough. Hemp products are excluded.