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New Jersey continues to see more and more cannabis dispensaries officially setting up shop, with Harrison’s first legal storefront launching this week.
San Francisco, Calif.-born cannabis brand Cookies expanded its East Coast footprint with its debut New Jersey store Aug. 16 at 331 Angelo Cifelli Drive, right across from Red Bull Arena.
The flagship shop’s menu includes proprietary flower cultivars, pre-rolls and vapes. It also offers glass, accessories and local reserve apparel that pays homage to both the Garden State and the City of Harrison.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union scored another victory in the legal marijuana market when workers at a San Francisco retail store voted in favor of a UFCW-negotiated contract.
According to a news release, workers at Stiiizy-Mission, located in the heart of San Francisco and operated by the Shryne Group, voted unanimously in favor of a contract that includes “salary increases that average $3/hr over the life of the contract, a pathway to full-time work, employer provided health insurance, and an employer sponsored retirement savings account.”
Lobbyists spent a record $1.9 million in 2019 to campaign on marijuana legalization—half a million dollars more than 2018, according to the report.
Those efforts were ultimately unsuccessful, and the question has since been bounced to voters for the presidential election this November.
“Given the big numbers from other states and the fact that the creation of a lucrative new industry hangs in the balance, it isn’t inconceivable that the fall ballot contest could cost upwards of $10 million,” Brindle said.
The problem, many critics say, is that equity programs suffer from the exact same failings as every other business effort in cannabis. In order to stand a chance of winning a permit—let alone founding a viable business—Black and brown businesspeople must still find well-capitalized partners. Almost always, this means finding white partners—rendering equity programs little more than a cynical example of tokenism at best.
But now, Black Wednesday is starting to get competition from Green Wednesday.
The day before Thanksgiving is also one of the biggest days for cannabis retailers. It's their shopping holiday ahead of Black Friday.
"They're stocking up. They want to be ready to bring something to their Thanksgiving tables or possibly discreetly relaxing before they get to their Thanksgiving tables," says Eliot Dobris of The Apothecarium Dispensary.
Business was brisk here the Apothecarium Cannabis store on Market Street.
Granite countertops? Pendant lights? Chandeliers? If Phillipsburg’s medical marijuana dispensary is like others in the chain, it’s going to be a classy storefront when it opens by year’s end.
The Apothecarium has locations in San Francisco and Las Vegas. In 2017, Architectural Digest ranked one storefront among the seven best-designed marijuana shops in the country.
So how will Phillipsburg – a blue-collar town of 14,500 people on New Jersey’s western border – end up with the first East Coast location of this swanky pot shop?
San Francisco officials plan to expunge more than 9,000 marijuana convictions dating back to 1975, the city's highest law enforcement official said Monday.
It's the culmination of San Francisco's year-long review of past convictions after California voters legalized recreational marijuana throughout the state in 2016. Several California cities are taking on the task of expunging records, but San Francisco is the first one to finish the job, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
So what did spur the era of legalization? People started risking arrest and imprisonment to provide this healing herb to the sick and dying.
The modern medical cannabis movement in America began in San Francisco, in the early 1990s, as a response to the AIDS crisis then decimating the city. Spearheaded by heroic figures like Dennis Peron and Brownie Mary, a tight-knit network of grassroots activists worked tirelessly to change the laws against cannabis via political campaigns and voter initiatives, while simultaneously subverting those very same laws by breaking them openly.
