The mayors of New Jersey’s two biggest towns won’t allow marijuana dispensaries in their cities unless they are happy with how the legalization bill addresses previous weed convictions. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop joined a handful of other town leaders from across the state Wednesday to call for stronger social justice […]
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N.J. just doubled its medical marijuana program. See where the 6 new dispensaries will be.
After months of delays that exacerbated a marijuana supply shortage for patients, New Jersey has now effectively doubled the size of its medical marijuana program. The state Department of Health on Monday revealed the six medical marijuana dispensaries it picked to add to the program. If those six get up and running, New Jersey would have 12 […]
New Jersey Bill Considers Marijuana Delivery
Door-to-door marijuana delivery? Marijuana cafes? Maybe. New Jersey is inching toward becoming the 11th state to legalize marijuana for recreational use, though a vote this year on a bill to make the drug legal is nearly impossible. The final day of voting in the State Legislature this year is Monday, and it appears the bill […]
New Jersey Legalization Bill Allows Employers To Fire Over Marijuana Use
New Jersey residents eagerly awaiting the chance to use marijuana without fear of arrest will have one more hurdle to pass before they are home free: their employer. The New Jersey bill legalizing recreational marijuana includes an amendment that allows employers to prohibit employees from using drugs, even if it means testing for marijuana. “Even […]
NJ Bill Legalizing Adult-Use Marijuana Gains Committee Approval
Legislation that would legalize adult use marijuana in New Jersey gained the approval of a Senate committee today. Sponsored by Senator Nicholas Scutari and Senate President Steve Sweeney, the bill, S-2703, would legalize the possession and use of limited amounts of marijuana for adults 21 and older and create an organizational and regulatory system to […]
Hearings Set for Marijuana Bill in New Jersey
Local municipalities will have the option of levying a 2 percent tax on weed sales for their own coffers, in addition to a 12 percent state tax on cannabis sales, under a long-awaited bill to make the drug legal for recreational use in the Garden State. That and other components of the proposed bill—sponsored by […]
NJ lawmakers unveil legislation legalizing marijuana
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled their latest proposal to legalize recreational marijuana for people 21 and over. A joint Democrat-led Assembly and Senate committee is expected to discuss the measures Monday. It’s the latest draft in a long-running effort to legalize recreational cannabis in New Jersey, where despite support from Democratic […]
First pass at legal marijuana could roll into New Jersey Statehouse in days, but full vote will require joint effort
New Jersey lawmakers could finally — finally — begin voting on legislation to legalize recreational marijuana in the state within two weeks. But as for when final votes will take place? That’s still up in the air. The top two leaders of the state Legislature said Wednesday they expect legislation making cannabis legal to be voted out of committee by the end […]
Marijuana Legalization Bill Delayed As Legislators Try to Secure Votes In New Jersey
State Sen. Richard Codey has no problem with medical marijuana being legal in New Jersey— in fact, he says he supports decriminalizing marijuana altogether. But as legislators in Trenton work out the details of a roughly 150-page bill to create an entirely new — and legal — recreational marijuana industry, Codey is firm: They won’t get his vote. “It’s […]
Access To Medical Marijuana Continues To Expand Under Murphy In New Jersey
Nearly twice as many patients are able to benefit from New Jersey’s medical marijuana program, compared to involvement in January, and access to the medicine has been eased, with hundreds of additional prescribers available and the wait time for treatment cut in half. That’s the latest from the state Department of Health, which oversees the […]
New Jersey Lawmakers hash out marijuana bill, but can it pass?
Democratic New Jersey lawmakers spent part of Tuesday going over the fine points of a bill that their leaders say is the almost-final, soon-to-pass vehicle for allowing anyone 21 and older to buy and consume marijuana. After missing earlier, informal deadlines for mustering enough votes to pass a bill that Gov. Phil Murphy would sign, Senate President […]
Despite marijuana’s increasing legalization and acceptance, arrests soar in Philly Suburbs and South Jersey
Corey Thornton admits he gave little thought to the marijuana in his car as he drove along Germantown Pike near the Plymouth Meeting Mall in March. He was heading home to Philadelphia, where police have essentially decriminalized marijuana possession — no longer arresting thousands a year for pot but issuing a like number of $25 civil […]
Marijuana Industry Has New Jersey Politicians Seeing Green
State Sen. Nicholas Scutari (D-Linden) likes to tell the story of the dinner party he attended years ago, when he had just arrived in Trenton. “I said to the table, ‘I’m going to legalize marijuana in the state of New Jersey someday, and they laughed at me and laughed,’” said Scutari, who is also the […]
New York Can’t Afford to Concede Retail Cannabis to New Jersey
New York state may see potential tax dollars go up in a puff of pot smoke. With New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy leading a fast-track push to legalize recreational marijuana, pot dispensaries could soon be as close as a seven-minute train ride from Manhattan. Once people start hopping the PATH train to Jersey City to […]
Marijuana Home Delivery Could Be Part Of Legalization In New Jersey
While legislators are still crafting a bill to legalize marijuana in New Jersey, some of the proposed changes could bring legal weed to your doorstep — literally. Legislators are yet to unveil the final version but are “98 percent” done, according to legal weed advocates. But according to a series of proposed amendments from the Senate Judiciary Committee dated […]
New Jersey receives 146 applications for 6 shops as state expands medicinal weed
In another sign of the robust interest in New Jersey’s growing medical marijuana program, the state has received 146 applications to run six new retail shops that would sell the drug to the more than 30,000 people authorized to take it for conditions ranging from anxiety to chronic pain. Would-be operators of the six new […]
New Jersey Could Legalize Recreational Marijuana By End Of September
New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney told POLITICO in an extensive interview that he believes the state could legalize marijuana by the end of September. “I’m confident we’ll get to 21 and 41 (votes),” Sweeney told POLITICO. The Senate needs 21 votes and the Assembly needs 41 votes to pass measures that would legalize recreational marijuana and […]
Medical marijuana user’s boss can drug test him, court says
A New Jersey business does not have to waive its requirement for mandatory drug testing for a worker who uses medical marijuana, a federal court has ruled. Daniel Cotto Jr. of Bridgeton had sued Ardagh Glass citing the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination after the company wouldn’t allow him to return to his job unless he […]
