N.J. Legal Cannabis Sales Unlikely To Start In February
State may miss key deadline
While promising to open New Jersey’s legal cannabis consumer market, the state may not meet a self-imposed deadline originally set for late February.
Jeff Brown, the executive director of the state Cannabis Regulatory Commission, said a number of factors are still in the way before the doors can open, including lack of municipal buy-in.
“There’s still a lot to be done,” Brown told NJ Cannabis Insider ahead of today’s CRC meeting, scheduled to start at 1 p.m. “Feb. 22 is not a concrete date to open. There is no firm commitment on timing of when recreational sales will begin.”
State legislation, S-21, directed the CRC to begin allowing sales on that date — six months after rules and regulations were established by the commission.
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