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 […]
Steve is an NJ medical cannabis patient who has found relief from Crohn’s. Despite his initial bias against cannabis, he would now like to grow his own. He didn’t want his last name used. Steve is not the liberal you often find as an NJ medical cannabis patient. On the contrary, he grew up in […]
The State Senate passed bills establishing a program increasing education funding in impact zones via NJ cannabis tax revenue and made medical cannabis telemedicine permanent. S-3213 “Establishes New Jersey Community Learning Program in DOE to provide comprehensive extended learning time programs in certain communities; dedicates portion of State cannabis revenue to support program,” was sponsored […]
Legislation sponsored by Senator O’Scanlon authorizing medical cannabis telemedicine permanently has passed the New Jersey State Senate.
Harmony Dispensary received unanimous support for its plan to open a dispensary from the Hoboken Cannabis Review Board. It’s main competitor Terrapin applied for a license in the 2019 round, which should have been announced 16 months ago. Despite not having a license, Terrapin is protective of their Hoboken turf and sued Harmony Dispensary so […]
Governor Phil Murphy conditionally vetoed a bill establishing telemedicine because he thought it would be too onerous on cannabis patients. Also, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in favor of the patient being reimbursed for medical cannabis in Vincent Hager v. M&K Construction. Murphy similarly conditionally vetoed the expungement bill in 2019 because he did […]
The small cannabis corporation Multi-State Operator (MSO) Terrapin Care Station won when a Hudson County judge ruled that rival Harmony Dispensary must submit to a review board before opening a Hoboken cannabis dispensary. They filed a lawsuit in September 2020. They asked the court whether Harmony Dispensary must comply with regulations after they submitted documents […]
Product recalls of moldy cannabis made by Curaleaf and sold by the GTI Rise dispensary in Paterson and Curaleaf dispensary in Bellmawr have been issued. In their Product Recall, GTI Rise noted the mold was found in two batches of the Banana Foster strain (or cultivar). It was grown by Curaleaf NJ, which they wholesaled. […]
John Bailey of the organization Black Cannabis led a policy discussion webinar on social equity in the industry in New Jersey. “We’re at an interesting time New Jersey, as we always are,” Assistant Commissioner of Medical Marijuana Jeff Brown said. “We’re “on the precipice of something great here. Once the politics are ironed out, we’ll […]
The New Jersey Assembly Appropriations Committee passed a bill to allow medical cannabis coverage in worker’s compensation and car insurance cases. The bill, A 1708, passed the committee 7-4 on party lines. While medical marijuana is not covered by health insurance, should this bill become law, companies paying out worker’s compensation cases would have to […]
A bill formally allowing cannabis telemedicine was approved by the New Jersey Assembly and the State Senate. First-time patients could see the doctor in person for their initial examination and then subsequent appointments via cannabis telemedicine. This is unlike special COVID exemptions. Only patients who have limited mobility would be allowed to have exclusively online […]
Garden State Dispensary is opening a second New Jersey cannabis dispensary in Eatontown in Monmouth County.
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