New Jersey's recreational marijuana market opens for business

[brooklynite]

Source: CBS News

New Jersey's recreational marijuana marketplace is open for business. Recreational sales of cannabis for adults 21 and older are scheduled to start Thursday, with the first alternative treatment centers opening at 6 a.m. in part of the state.

"It's a huge event. It's a moment in time in American history where prohibition 2.0 is lifted," said Ben Kovler, the chairman and CEO of Green Thumb Industries, which has two facilities opening Thursday, one in Bloomfield and another in Paterson.

The start of the recreational market comes a a week after Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy announced that state regulators had cleared the way for recreational sales at seven "alternative treatment centers" that had already offered medical cannabis. The seven centers operate 13 facilities across the state.

New Jersey is among 18 states, plus the District of Columbia, with legalized recreational marijuana markets. Thirty-seven states, including New Jersey, have legalized medical marijuana.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marijuana-in-new-jersey-recreational-medical-weed/

[EYESORE 9001]

1. Too bad it couldn't have happened yesterday

but today works too.

[twodogsbarking]

2. Unless I am wrong it is still illegal to grow it in NJ.

[LiberatedUSA]

3. Out of curiosity for the legal states...

…when the weed stores first open, how long are the lines? Like how many weeks or months does it take before you can realistically expect to just walk in without a huge line and the supplies won’t be out or low?

Edit:

Or is it like Chick-Fil-A and they are always swamped?

[womanofthehills]

4. Second weekend NM rec stores had half the visitors of first weekend

NM has lots of dispensaries - probably depends on number of stores. Most have websites- so you can see their menus online.

[Wicked Blue]

5. I wish my brother was alive to see this

He would have been so happy.
He lived in NJ and wrote letters and signed petitions for legalizing recreational marijuana. His last email to me was about the status of the law. Alas, he died in mid-January.