The New Jersey legislature began a new session with several anti-NJ cannabis consumer bills and two for legal home grow introduced. Welcome to 2024, when regulated cannabis is expected to be a billion-dollar industry in New Jersey. Every penny of those profits and taxes will be extracted from the pockets of consumers. We should be […]
Bennabis Health and CannaCoverage have launched a program to include NJ medical cannabis coverage under employee benefits. Currently, only prescription medicine is available through employer benefits. Cannabis cannot be prescribed as a traditional medicine and covered until federal prohibition ends. So, Bennabis Health has negotiated a 15% discount off New Jersey medical cannabis dispensary prices. […]
Justice Cannabis Co. opened the 1st medical cannabis dispensary in Ocean County and the 44th in New Jersey in Waretown as Bloc Dispensary.
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) labor union Local 360 announced that workers for the large cannabis corporation Multi-State Operator (MSO) Columbia Care’s Cannabist NJ dispensary in Deptford voted to join them. It’s Columbia Care’s first location to unionize successfully. Deptford Township is in Gloucester County in South Jersey. The Columbia Care Cannabist dispensary […]
RIPT Dispensary opened the first licensed medical cannabis dispensary in Jersey City and the 43rd in New Jersey. Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop (D) cut the ribbon at their Grand Opening. He has been very supportive of cannabis legalization for a while. “We were one of the state leaders advocating for legalization. We were the […]
Eastern Green Dispensary and Yuma Way have opened the 41st and 42nd NJ medical cannabis dispensaries in Voorhees in South Jersey and Garfield in North Jersey. They won licenses during the 2019-2021 NJ medical cannabis license lottery. The pace of openings has increased as the NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission (NJCRC) is eager to increase NJ […]
Silver Leaf NJ, Brute’s Roots, and MPX NJ have opened the 38th, 39th, and 40th New Jersey medical cannabis dispensaries. Pharmacists Open Silver Leaf NJ Silver Leaf NJ did a soft opening of their dispensary at 1743 NJ-27 in Somerset in Franklin Township in Somerset County this week. They were among the New Jersey medical […]
URB’N Dispensary and Restore NJ have opened the 36th and 37th New Jersey medical cannabis dispensaries in Newark and South Jersey. They were awarded in the 2019/2021 licensing round. Both decided to do soft openings where one accepts some customers to ensure there are no problems. It’s usually only afterward that a “Grand Opening” is […]
Holistic Solutions opened as the first Black and woman-owned New Jersey medical cannabis dispensary Friday in Atco in Waterford in Camden County. It is the 33rd medical cannabis dispensary to open in New Jersey since the program launched ten years ago. Their medical cannabis dispensary or Alternative Treatment Center (ATC) had its grand opening today. […]
The State Senate passed a bill last week 38-0 allowing four more New Jersey medical marijuana caregivers to help a child medical cannabis patient. State Senator Nilsa Cruz-Perez (D-Camden) and Nellie Pou (D-Passaic) sponsored the bill S 521, “Expressly authorizes medical cannabis patients under 18 years of age to have up to four designated caregivers.” […]
The New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission (NJCRC) denied the winners of the 2018 medical cannabis RFA lawsuit against the Department of Health (DOH) the licenses they expected. NJ CRC Executive Director Jeff Brown explained the process started July 16, 2018. A Request for Application (RFA) for six permits with two in each region, was opened. […]
The NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission announced the winners of the 2019 medical cannabis applications for cultivation and vertical licenses.
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Chris Goldstein
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