The Scarlet Reserve boutique store recently opened in South Amboy on Rt. 35 North with a great variety of CBD products and those derived from hemp. Owned by partners Will Rivera and Eric Jiang, it currently carries both full and broad-spectrum CBD (full spectrum means it has .3 percent THC as well as CBD, and […]
NJ decriminalization criminal justice reform, whereby 50 grams or less of cannabis would be treated comparable to a parking ticket, is dead in the lame-duck legislative session between the November election and the new Assembly’s swearing-in next week. The current NJ Assembly session ends next Tuesday, January 14th, at noon. There will likely be votes […]
The New Jersey Department of Agriculture announced that the USDA approved New Jersey’s hemp farming program.
Former National Basketball Association (NBA) Commissioner David Stern died on New Year’s Day at the age of 77. He had been suffering from a brain hemorrhage for a few weeks. Stern recently said the league’s ban on cannabis should be addressed in the next collective bargaining agreement negotiation. Former NBA Commissioner Dead He was Commissioner […]
As of January 1, 2020, the purchase and consumption of adult-use cannabis are legal in the state of Illinois. Illinois Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton was one of the first customers to purchase cannabis at the Sunnyside Lakeview dispensary. It was the first time a Lt. Governor publicly purchased cannabis. Passage of cannabis reform was a […]
MJ BizCon is the largest gathering in the cannabis industry. Thus it’s a perfect place to get an overview of the cannabis market as it stands. MJ BizCon and the Cannabis Industry According to MJ Business Daily which operates MJ BizCon President Chris Walsh, the legal market states and New York have the biggest domestic […]
Amidst a busy day in Trenton that saw the statehouse be filled to capacity with activists for a variety of causes, both chambers of the New Jersey legislature passed a bill that puts the cannabis legalization ballot question up for a vote in November 2020. The Senate passed SRC 183, Cannabis personal, non-medical use by […]
This past year has been a big one for the legal cannabis industry gathered at MJ BizCon. Formerly confined to the shadows and a few western states, the legal cannabis industry has become a big business with all the benefits as well as the problems associated with it. MJ BizCon Reports According to MJ Business […]
Last week 35,000 people from 75 countries gathered at the mammoth Las Vegas Convention Center at MJ BizCon, the premier global cannabis industry event where Mike Tyson was featured. MJ BizCon focuses on the business and industry of cannabis. For those who have been dreaming of cannabis being legal and treated like any other commodity, […]
With legal New Jersey cannabis legalization legislation thought dead, the Legislature moved ahead with the bill to make cannabis legalization a ballot question next year. It would be an amendment to the state constitution. Advocates making up the New Jersey United for Marijuana Reform (NJUMR) coalition testified in favor of the bill. It easily passed […]
Dahlia Mertens has been building her cannabis topicals business Mary Jane Medicinals for 10 years and has seen a lot of change in the industry. Mertens was initially involved in the theater until she moved to the small town of Telluride, CO in the southwest part of the state, and became a massage therapist. After […]
Garden State Hemp had its Grand Opening as an NJ CBD store on Millburn’s main thoroughfare on Saturday, known as Small Business Saturday. Garden State Hemp is a subsidiary of Green Passion Industries (GPI), which is a partnership between Carl Burwell Jr. as CEO and Jonathan Rojas as Chief Operating Officer (COO). “I’m excited there’s […]
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