Its store in Paramus will be reserved for medical-use sales only, she said. Green Thumb’s dispensaries in Paterson and Bloomfield — both of which are within 15 miles of Manhattan — will be open for medical and recreational sales, she said.
Each medical-marijuana company in New Jersey is permitted to operate as many as three dispensaries, although not all do. The companies authorized on Monday to begin selling cannabis to all adults have dispensaries throughout New Jersey: Acreage CCF New Jersey; Ascend Wellness; Columbia Care; Curaleaf; Green Thumb Industries (GTI); TerrAscend; and Verano.
In northern New Jersey, companies approved for expanded sales also operate dispensaries in Elizabeth, Maplewood, Montclair and Rochelle Park. Nearer Pennsylvania, there are stores in Bellmawr, Bordentown, Deptford, Edgewater Park, Phillipsburg and Vineland.
Last month, the commission put off making a decision about whether to permit medical-marijuana shops to begin selling products to all adults, citing supply constraints and other concerns. The delay led to criticism from lawmakers eager to open the adult-use recreational market.
Nicholas Scutari, a Democrat who is the president of the State Senate and has pressed for years to legalize marijuana, threatened to hold public hearings if recreational sales did not start soon.
“We need to get the legal marijuana market up and running in New Jersey,” Mr. Scutari said in a statement. “This has become a failure to follow through on the public mandate and to meet the expectations for new businesses and consumers.”
In November 2020, New Jersey voters approved a referendum in support of legalizing marijuana; several months later lawmakers adopted a bill making certain quantities of the drug legal and laying out broad parameters for the new industry.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/11/nyregion/marijuana-sales-nj.html
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