The Botanist Opens 9th NJ Medical Dispensary on AC Boardwalk
The ninth medical marijuana dispensary opened in New Jersey as “The Botanist” to the public on Saturday on the Atlantic City boardwalk. This means they opened about a month ahead of MPX. They had hoped to prevent the opening of the iAnthus-owned MPX store named “Be” via legal means, but failed. The Botanist is run […]
Curaleaf Bellmawr Fined for Labor Violations
The Multi-State Operator (MSO) Curaleaf, which operates a medical dispensary in Bellmawr, was severely fined by the federal Office of Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for labor workplace violations. Curaleaf Bellmawr was initially fined $40,000 by OSHA, which later reduced the fine to $26,300. According to Politico, they were found to have seven workplace violations, […]
Canna Care Docs Opens New Location in Woodbury
Canna Care Docs, a chain of doctor’s offices specializing in prescribing medical marijuana to patients, opened their fifth New Jersey location in Woodbury last night. They decided to open it near the Curaleaf ATC in Bellmawr so it’s convenient for patients after an appointment. The city of Woodbury was quite welcoming to them. The Mayor […]
Jeff Oakes: NJ Medical Marijuana Patient and Advocate
Jeff Oakes, a long time-activist with Sativa Cross, is one of the leading figures in New Jersey’s legalization movement. A new effort to pass NJ medical marijuana patient home cultivation or “homegrow” by Jim Miller and others has been dubbed “Jeff’s Law” in his honor. Jeff’s Law has become a leading platform of the NJ […]
NJ Medical Cannabis Patient Coping With Marijuana Charge
NJ Medical Cannabis Patient Brian Powers had his day in court yesterday for his alleged medical marijuana crime. Powers was arrested in New Brunswick in November for cannabis possession although he is a patient who had his proper medical marijuana card and proper medical cannabis from an Alternative Treatment Center (ATC) on him at the […]
New Jersey Cannabis Conference CannaRiskCon Explains Cannabis Insurance
CannaRisk Con 1.0 was a New Jersey Cannabis Conference that explained the nuances of cannabis insurance to an audience that might be held liable in a few worst-case scenarios. Quite often, insurance is an afterthought of entrepreneurs. This can leave them in a difficult situation when things go wrong. Many entrepreneurs in California have been […]
Jim Miller, Longtime Legal Advocate & NJ Weed Homegrow Leader
Jim Miller has been a pillar of cannabis reform activism in New Jersey for years, pushing for medical marijuana reform and home cultivation of cannabis, known as NJ homegrow, five years before medical marijuana reform passed in California. He inspired a wave of leading cannabis activists who inspired others to join the movement. Fighting for […]
TerrAscend Opens Cultivation Operation in Boonton
The NJ Department of Health (DOH) announced that the medical dispensary TerrAscend could start growing cannabis plants at their facility in Boonton, NJ. The harvests are for their dispensary in Phillipsburg, which will be called “The Apothecarium.” According to the NJ DOH, TerrAscend is the fourth Alternative Treatment Center (ATC) to receive a permit to […]
Green Thumb Industries (GTI) Rise Dispensary Opens for Cannabis Sales in Paterson
Green Thumb Industries (GTI) Rise opened the seventh medical cannabis dispensary in New Jersey in Paterson in Passaic County in North Jersey. Because it is so new, they are selling cannabis grown by Curaleaf in Bellmawr, New Jersey, for now. They reported planting their first crop of plants shortly before opening in mid-December. (It generally […]
CBD Products Available at Scarlet Reserve Store
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 […]
Decriminalization Criminal Justice Reform Fails During NJ Lame-Duck Session
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 […]
X-NBA Commish Dead, Said NBA Should Rethink 420 Ban
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 […]