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The governor of New Jersey says recreational marijuana sales will start \u201cwithin weeks,\u201d with certain existing medical cannabis dispensaries set to be licensed for adult-use commerce. He also reiterated that he\u2019s \u201copen-minded\u201d to allowing a home grow option for consumers in the future.<\/p>\n
Gov. Phil Murphy (D) has been under pressure to get the market online since voters approved a legalization referendum in 2020<\/a> and lawmakers passed implementation legislation that he signed into law last year. In an interview with WGBO that was published Thursday, he said the market will open imminently.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I had to predict\u2014I\u2019ve said this before, but I mean this literally in this case\u2014I think we\u2019re within weeks,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cI would hope in March that you\u2019re going to see explicit movement on the medical dispensaries, some number of them being able to sell recreational.\u201d<\/p>\n For a dispensary to get that authorization, it will need \u201clocal approvals\u201d and \u201cthey\u2019ve got to prove that they\u2019ve got the supply for their medical customers first and foremost,\u201d the governor said. \u201cAnd then I hope shortly thereafter, the standalone retail adult-use cannabis operations\u201d will move forward.<\/p>\n \u2014 Marijuana Moment\u2019s Wire Service helps our paying subscribers boost SEO and lets your potential customers know you are watching all the latest key policy developments that affect them.<\/p>\n Now you can publish smart cannabis content on your site without having to hire your own dedicated editorial staff to track, make sense of and synthesize news developments your readers are looking for information about.<\/p>\n Contact Marijuana Moment for pricing information today.<\/a> Murphy emphasized<\/a> that equity in the industry is \u201cincredibly important to us.\u201d And ensuring that equity is centered has made this \u201cmore complicated to get off the ground, but I think it will have been worth it assuming we get this right.\u201d<\/p>\n There\u2019s been tension between certain advocates, stakeholders and the administration over the protracted timeline to get licenses issued, and some have raised concern that communities most impacted by cannabis criminalization are going to be left behind.<\/p>\n New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC) Chair Dianna Houenou recently said that if the state were to open standalone adult-use shops right now, the industry would be \u201cdominated\u201d by large, multi-state operators<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to make sure we\u2019re ready to open to the public, because if we don\u2019t do that and we rush into opening the market, there\u2019s a substantial risk that patients will lose access, there will be long lines and wait times and that could lead to an immediate supply crisis,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n In the interim period that Murphy described, it seems likely that there will be a lack of diversity in the market given that regulators have been unable to say whether there\u2019s more than one black-owned dispensary out of the 44 that are licensed in the state.<\/p>\n Listen to Murphy\u2019s marijuana comments, around 25:15 into the audio below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n A U.S. congressman recently criticized New Jersey regulators about the diversity issue, saying he\u2019s \u201coutraged\u201d over the lack of minority representation<\/a> in the industry.<\/p>\n Also during the interview with WGBO, Murphy was asked by a caller about whether he would be willing to allow adult consumers to grow their own cannabis\u2014a policy that wasn\u2019t included in the implementation legislation that he signed last year, much to the frustration of advocates.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve never been \u2018heck no\u2019 against that,\u201d the governor said. \u201cThat\u2019s something that I haven\u2019t spoken to the legislative leadership about, but that\u2019s something I\u2019d be open minded to.\u201d<\/p>\n The host asked Murphy if he could think of any arguments against permitting home cultivation and he wasn\u2019t able to produce one but said \u201cI\u2019m sure there is\u201d one. When it comes to enacting a policy change to allow home grow, he said that he\u2019s \u201cvirtually certain\u201d it would need to be handled legislatively, rather than approved administratively through the state\u2019s regulatory body.<\/p>\n The governor similarly talked about being open to home grow late last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n He\u2019s also touted the fact that the courts have expunged more than 362,000 marijuana cases<\/a>\u00a0since July 1, when a decriminalization law took effect that mandated the relief for people who have been caught up in prohibition enforcement.<\/p>\n South Dakota Senate Approves Marijuana Legalization And Expungements Bills, While House Defeats Tax Measure<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n Photo courtesy of WeedPornDaily<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post New Jersey Governor Says Adult-Use Marijuana Sales Will Start \u2018Within Weeks\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Marijuana Moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n
The governor of New Jersey says recreational marijuana sales will start \u201cwithin weeks,\u201d with certain existing medical cannabis dispensaries set to be licensed for adult-use commerce. He also reiterated that he\u2019s \u201copen-minded\u201d to allowing a home grow option for consumers in the future. Gov. Phil Murphy (D) has been underContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":458,"featured_media":53171,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53172,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53170\/revisions\/53172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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