Today is the first-day cannabis cultivators, manufacturers, and testing lab license applications to operate in the NJ adult-use cannabis market are accepted. The application portal on the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission’s (CRC) website opened this morning at 9 am. Almost 500 individuals and entities established accounts in the first four hours. The CRC started […]
Lawyer, educator, and businesswoman Sarah Trent’s Middle Valley Partners was the NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission’s (CRC) top pick for a New Jersey medical dispensary license. Doing Business as Valley Wellness, they will open the first medical cannabis dispensary in Somerset County in Raritan Borough. “We put so much effort into that application in 2019,” Trent […]
Colorado-based Terrapin Care Station has beeen allowed to operate a medical marijuana store in Hoboken, New Jersey. They were among the 30 companies awarded a medical cannabis dispensary license. The NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC) announced it this week. Their primary location will be in Hoboken at 86 River Street across from the PATH station. […]
The New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC) released a webinar detailing the upcoming application process for an adult-use cannabis license. Commissioner Maria Del Cid said that they seek to “ensure a safe and equitable industry in our state.” She said they want the application process to be “as smooth as possible for prospective applicants.” The […]
Postpartum depression (PPD) is a debilitating condition that negatively affects many expecting mothers and can be treated with cannabis. I know because it helped me. Combined with a worldwide pandemic, a woman can really get tested. I am really being tested. I am 38 years old, with an almost one-year-old, still processing the stress of […]
Governor Phil Murphy (D) has won re-election, becoming the first Democratic New Jersey Governor to do so since 1977. Thus the NJ cannabis market will be developed by his appointees. His opponent, former Assemblyman Jack Ciatrelli (R), was against cannabis legalization. The race was surprisingly close. While Murphy had a double-digit lead in the polls […]
Hillview Med won a license in the 2019-2021 medical cannabis license Request for Application (RFA). So they are poised to be the first medical cannabis cultivator based in New Jersey to open. The current New Jersey cannabis cultivators also grow medical marijuana as part of their vertically integrated license, where they control the whole supply […]
A class-action lawsuit against increased cannabis penalties in school zones was amended to help immigrants with expungement problems since the federal government does not recognize state legalization. The suit Drayton v. State of New Jersey was filed in the Superior Court in Mercer County. South Jersey attorney William Riback amended it to include Anthony Wellington, a […]
Governor Phil Murphy has signed into law a bill allowing entities to own up to 35 percent of seven minority, women, and disabled veteran-owned medical cannabis dispensaries to provide them with capital. The law is A-5179/S-2875. It says investors offering financial assistance to businesses applying for NJ medical cannabis dispensary permits can own up to […]
The NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission announced the winners of the 2019 medical cannabis applications for cultivation and vertical licenses.
The 2019 medical cannabis license Request for Applications (RFA), a process that began 27 months ago, is going resolved on Friday according to the NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission ( NJ CRC). It has been one of the biggest impediments to New Jersey cannabis. NJDOH Issues Inherited by NJ CRC One hundred and ninety-six applicants responded […]
The New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC) is now allowing Physician Assistants (PAs) and Nurse Practitioners (Advanced Practice registered Nurses or APNs) to enroll MMJ patients. Thus, they can write the recommendations MMJ patients use to buy cannabis at dispensaries. “Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are an integral part of medical practices and are involved […]
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