“the cannabis legalization law says it must open open a process within 30 days of adopting its initial rules and regulations. That deadline comes this Saturday, Sept. 18.”
How much you wanna bet its not open by Saturday? I am following this LIKE A HAWK. Business plan in the works, with no limit on the number of micro-business / micro-cutivator licenses that will be issued, and my town being one of the few approving all classes of licenses (with 2yr prior residency requirement and an income ceiling as boundries for applying) you can be DAMN sure I wanna pursue a micro-cultivators license!!!
I’m saying 6 months at least. WELL past the Feb 2022 anticipated retail sales dates…
Guess that means big pharms will get first dibs Thanks NJ for looking out for the little guy! (at least theres no limits on micro licenses, but they will all be late to the game)
Hey, it’s hard to let people grow medicine when there are several large pharmaceutical companies headquartered in your state that keep handing you briefcases of cash and gold coins! Makes it hard to concentrate while you’re chilling in your governor’s castle at the beach and riding your taxpayer-funded helicopter to your son’s soccer game.
btw I believe CT’s law has only a stern warning as the punishment for 1st offense of growing weed before 2023 - for non-medMJ people, so it’s basically legal to grow now, unless you’re in a child custody battle with a hostile ex-wife or something
NJ is so blatantly money hungry it’s insane, they don’t even try to hide it. They look at it as anyone growing isn’t paying taxes buying it and they just can’t have that. Then you have Curathief spending money to lobby against homegrow for the same greedy reasons.
Mark my words- at the very least patients will be allowed to grow at some point. The issue is how long it’ll take to get it.
at least CT and NY both allow growing, that increases the odds of it happening in NJ.
The example of Washington state is not good though. DPA and the ACLU of WA state refused to put home growing in their legalization referendum, saying it could be addressed later. It’s now 9 years later the State Legislature has refused all attempts to allow home growing, even though Oregon and CA allow it.
Before NJ legalized the governors of NJ, NY, and PA got together for a “summit”. At this summit they all agreed there would be no homegrow. This was terrifying because if they actually all stuck to their guns it made it easier for the other states to do the same. NY allowing it weakened NJ’s position. There’s a bill written up in NJ for it already, we just need enough legislators to sign on and vote for it. Too bad pro growing can’t compete with anti growing’s deep pockets.
the fascinating part is that NY and CT only got home-growing because of Cuomo being a sexually harassing asshole! some kind of mysterious karma payback kicked in
And… the 18th of Sept has come and gone and no license applications have been posted yet…
I shoulda bet cold hard cash it wouldn’t be ready!
I will say this about NJ and going legal though. There are a few interesting things in the law.
First, no limit on the number of licenses for microbusinesses.
Second, Microbusinesses ARE able to convert to full scale licenses after a year, which are much harder to get currently, as well as they have a limit on how many / a lottery system to get them via direct application (doesn’t appear to apply to microbusiness conversion, seems like a microbusiness might be the “in”).
Third. There are barriers to entry for microbusinesses, i.e. The owners previous years tax returns must be under $200k, and 2yr in state residency requirements. Some municipalities will require 51% of the companies owners live in the municipality or an immediately adjoining municipality for the prior two years as well.
NJ just loves to drag its feet though… but the $200k max reported income requirement, and residency requirements, plus unlimited microbusiness licenses just might open the door for more small scale entrepreneurs… In my own town there’s a major business owner who wanted one of the original 22 licenses the state offered up several years ago. He owns a cosmetics company (several), and has a giant plot of land in town. Back then, the town didn’t approve his application. Under today’s proposed laws I have a better chance of getting a license compared to him, he makes too much money to be considered for the microbusiness side, and the lottery for big business licenses doesn’t guarantee him a shot.
Still slow as molasses in the winter getting laws written for what the people voted on nearly a year ago now!!
I saw the headline that they missed the deadline but it was bedtime and my mind was redlined.
Headline and deadline made me do it I did see the headline though and in about the least enthusiastic and most sarcastic way possible muttered “well you don’t say” and didn’t even bother reading it.
I was kinda hoping to see something posted on the site this morning, maybe auto-posted via schedule. Nope. Same stuff different day. Maybe monday. Its ok, still got half a business plan to finish
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Thanks NJ for looking out for the little guy! (at least theres no limits on micro licenses, but they will all be late to the game)
I did see the headline though and in about the least enthusiastic and most sarcastic way possible muttered “well you don’t say” and didn’t even bother reading it.