Somerset County

It’s another cannabis market win for Central Jersey.

Leaf Haus will have a grand-opening celebration Aug. 17, as it becomes the third legal weed shop to open to customers 21 and over in Somerset County.

The store is located at 900 Easton Ave, Suite 18 in Franklin Township’s Somerset Village shopping center, next to H&R Block.

Leaf Haus is a small store with a large product selection to choose from.

SilverLeaf Wellness will be hosting a grand opening on Tuesday, May 16 at 1743 Route 27 in Somerset. During its first week open, customers can get 25 percent off.

The dispensary will offer a wide range of medical cannabis products to patients with qualifying medical conditions.

A new marijuana dispensary is coming to Somerset County.

Cloud Nine Cannabis Dispensary, owned by Cloud Nine Dispensary LLC, was previously approved for the location at 513-527 Route 22 West in North Plainfield by the Borough Council. And signs for the new dispensary were recently posted this month.

The resolution by the Council said the dispensary's location is "appropriately located" in a commercial and business zone and not in a residential zone.

Employees at a Somerset County medical dispensary have joined a growing number of workers in New Jersey’s cannabis landscape who have opted to unionize.

According to the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 360, workers at Valley Wellness in Raritan voted to organize as members of the union, which represents hundreds of thousands of cannabis industry workers in dispensaries, labs, manufacturing, processing, delivery and grow facilities across the U.S.

A new marijuana dispensary in Somerset County has recently been approved to allow recreational cannabis for adults.

Bloc Dispensary, at 1075 Easton Ave., Somerset, officially opened for medical use only in December 2022. The dispensary was able to expand its cannabis offerings for recreational use as of March 2.

Unity Rd., the first national cannabis dispensary franchise in the United States, will open its first New Jersey recreational marijuana shop in the township in the first half of 2023.The shop site will be located in a strip mall at 441 Elizabeth Ave.

Dishen Patel, owner of the shop, has received approval from both the state and the township, to open the business.

Patel has spent the past decade in private equity investing in consumer-driven brands, including several franchise restaurants.

Medical marijuana has helped Sarah Trent immensely with her anxiety and sleep but finding a dispensary nearby was an issue.

"Medical patients where I live in Morris County have to drive over 45 minutes to get medicine," said Trent, a Morristown resident and Princeton graduate.

Trent is opening Valley Wellness at 405 Route 202 North in Raritan near the Somerville Circle. She is sharing a building with the appliance store Uneeda.

Middle Valley Partners will be appearing before the borough Planning Board on April 27 with a proposal to open a dispensary on Route 202.

The 2,476-square-foot dispensary is proposed to share the building at 405 Route 202 with Uneeda Appliance.

The dispensary is planned for the western portion of the 8,751-square-foot building.

Uneeda, the longtime independent appliance store, would occupy 6,275 square feet of the building. Uneeda used to be located on West Main Street in Somerville.

The smoke has finally cleared.

Municipalities in New Jersey had until today to decide whether they would welcome or block future legal cannabis businesses.

Many, like New Brunswick, have opted to take advantage of their ability to regulate and restrict where cannabis businesses, manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and deliverers could set up shop within their town limits.

Others around the state, including Princeton, Livingston, Caldwell and Middletown – to name a few – voted to ban the sale of marijuana in their borders.