The State Bar Association held a virtual cannabis conference with presentations from some of the state’s leading cannabis lawyers for lawyers and NJ cannabis license applicants. NJ State Bar Association Conference Advice Assemblyman Raj Mukherji (D-Hudson) addressed the crowd. He has sold his stock in Garden State Dispensary, which Ayr Dispensary now owns. Mukherji noted […]
A decision in the 2019 cannabis lawsuit favors the NJ Department of Health (NJDOH) against those who said their applications should be considered for a license. Assistant Commissioner for medical marijuana Jeff Brown continued his policy of not commenting on the story. Judges Fisher, Moynihan, and Gummer ruled in the case arguing that the problems […]
A cannabis prohibition lawsuit threatens to stop New Jersey’s cannabis legalization after the law passed the state by 67 percent and the legislature. Long-time prohibitionist David G. Evans is heading this effort. When asked who was paying for the suit, he said there was no corporate money behind the suit. There are multiple corporations and […]
MPX NJ is suing their parent company iAnthus over their license to operate their cultivation facility in New Jersey in Monmouth Superior Court. MPX NJ Unhappy With iAnthus While owned by iAnthus, MPX NJ seems to be bristling at the way iAnthus is doing business. They believe that iAnthus is operating under an agreement not […]
Ed “NJWeedman” Forchion is contesting New Jersey’s cannabis legalization in a federal lawsuit against New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy. Only “regulated cannabis,” defined as cannabis sold by a dispensary licensed by the Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC), will be allowed in the marketplace. But individuals possessing and selling underground cannabis will still be violating the law. […]
The 2018 dispensary lawsuit regarding the six medical cannabis licenses granted by the NJ Department of Health (NJDOH) has been won by the applicants who brought the suit. “Numerous indisputable anomalies in the scoring of the appellants’ applications prevent us from having sufficient confidence in the process adopted by the Department or its results for […]
The lawsuit brought by medical cannabis applicants in the 2018 ATC lawsuit got their day in court on Tuesday. Six medical marijuana vertical licenses for an Alternative Treatment Center (ATC) were awarded in 2018. Applicants who brought the suit said the grading of the 2018 applications for the six licenses were not consistently graded “It […]
It was announced today that the Supreme Court Justices denied the Supreme Court cannabis case Washington v. Barr a full trial. Had it been successful, the Supreme Court cannabis case would have removed cannabis from the Controlled Substance Act, where it is a Schedule I drug, said to be worse than drugs that actually kill […]
A cannabis lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of prohibition is set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. The plaintiffs argue it is unconstitutional that cannabis is illegal as a Schedule I drug since the government “does not believe, and upon information and belief never has believed” that cannabis meets the requirements for a Schedule […]
The NJ Division of Consumer Affairs won their case that allows them to examine the classification of cannabis as a Schedule I drug. Thus it would not further pursue its appeal from a decision of the Appellate Division of the Superior Court on cannabis being a Schedule I drug. The court ruled that the Division can […]
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