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Latest NJ Medical Marijuana Growing Permit Issued to Justice Grown in Ewing

The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) issued its latest permit for an ATC to grow NJ medical marijuana to Justice Grown in Ewing.

They are a cannabis corporation that is a Multi-State Operator (MSO).

To issue the permit, the NJDOH reviewed the site several times to examine its security and cultivating ability, along with completing background checks on its executives.

“As our program continues to grow, the Department wants to ensure that we also continue to increase access for all patients,” Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said. “This new permit brings the total number of operational medical marijuana cultivation sites in the state to 12.”

New ATC

Justice Grown broke ground on its indoor cultivation facility in Ewing Township in late 2019.  Upon completion, it will contain 34,000 square feet for growing within its 75,000 square feet. The location will also contain their extraction lab.

“It is our mission to bring affordable, top-shelf medical cannabis with a wide range of Indica, Sativa, Hybrid, and CBD strains to the patients of New Jersey,” said CEO Darin Carpenter.

Their dispensary will be at 1761 North Olden Avenue in Ewing, NJ, with two satellite dispensaries afterward.

“We are very excited to bring comfort and relief to the patients, as well as employment opportunities to residents in Mercer County and the surrounding area,” said Todd Johnson, Executive Vice President & Head of New Jersey Operations for Justice Grown.

Once Justice Grown receives its permit to dispense, the NJDOH will alert patients and caregivers by email of its opening.  It usually takes 90 days for plants to grow and be harvested. Thus, it is likely to open in August. Given the pandemic, it might be delayed.

It was one of the ATC licenses issued in 2018.

Cannabis Company Values

Their name suggests they are more social justice-minded than the average dispensary. On Justice Grown, it says, “Our initiatives include assisting with the expungement and sealing of records, rebuilding impacted communities, providing veterans with safe alternatives for healing, and aiding those affected by the opioid crisis.”

Prominent civil rights attorneys founded the company. So those ideas are naturally baked into their ethos apparently. Last fall, Justice Grown helped over 60 individuals start a new phase of life with a clean record. They also work with different veterans’ organizations.

“We will implement ways to give back to the community, whether that’s to veterans or the disenfranchised,” said Michael S. Pizzo, Director of Content & Creative Services, regarding their future charitable work in New Jersey.

Along with New Jersey, they hold medical marijuana licenses in California, Illinois, Utah, Massachusetts, and Missouri. They currently operate two medical dispensaries in Pennsylvania.

According to the NJDOH, there are now 75,468 patients, 2,949 licensed caregivers, and 1,149 doctors in the New Jersey Medical Marijuana Program.

NJ’s 12th Medical Marijuana Growing Facility by Justice Grown

Justice Grown was the last Alternative Treatment Center (ATC) to receive a cultivation permit among those awarded in December 2018. Earlier this year, the NJDOH issued cultivation permits to Verano in Readington, MPX NJ in Pleasantville, TerrAscend in Boonton Township, and Columbia Care NJ in Vineland.

Five other dispensaries have been issued growing permits, including Justice Grown:

  1. Columbia Care will grow and operate in Vineland
  2. Terr Ascend will dispense in Phillipsburg, now growing in Boonton
  3. Verano will dispense in Elizabeth, now growing in Readington,
  4. Be by MPX/iAnthus will dispense in AC, growing in Pleasantville
  5. Justice Grown in Ewing

There are nine ATCs currently dispensing medical marijuana:

  1. Greenleaf Compassion Center in Montclair, growing in Franklin.
  2. Garden State Dispensary in Woodbridge.
  3. Garden State Dispensary in Union Twp
  4. Breakwater ATC in Cranbury.
  5. Curaleaf in Bellmawr.
  6. Harmony Dispensary in Secaucus.
  7. GTI’s Rise in Paterson.
  8. Compassionate Care Foundation (CCF) in Egg Harbor.
  9. CCF in Atlantic City.

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