The right to unionize is baked into the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act as it is in the Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Cannabis Act. The law requires each cannabis business licensee to sign a labor peace agreement with a bona fide labor organization, with parties entering into an agreement that the employer will not oppose unionization and the union - if and when it organizes the workforce, agrees to not strike or otherwise stop work.

Ten businesses nabbed licenses to grow and four received vertically integrated ones allowing them to grow, process, manufacture and sell cannabis flower and products to the state's more than 18,800 medical patients and, eventually, adult use customers.

The destruction will significantly delay the opening of the cultivation center. However, according to CFO Steve Goertz, “Based on currently available information, we do not expect the damage to our operations from these events to have a material impact on our current financial condition."

The 9,546-square-foot outpost is the operator's second location to open this year, after Edgewater Park, and brings it to New Jersey's statewide three dispensary limit.

Yet to be announced is when applications to run businesses - including dispensaries, grow facilities, manufacturing and processing facilities, delivery operations, and wholesalers - can be submitted for consideration.

Wesley McWhite III will lead the Cannabis Regulatory Commission’s office in charge of establishing and administering practices and procedures to bring socially and economically disadvantaged New Jerseyans into the state's medical and adult use cannabis industries.

The deal includes an initial cash payment of $25 million with an additional $25 million payment comprised of a combination of cash and TerrAscend common shares to be paid on or before Dec. 31.

Columbia Care now operates in 12 states, with a third New Jersey location expected to debut by the shore in the fourth quarter.

Cannabis businesses have long struggled to get appropriate insurance coverage due to the product’s continued scheduling under the Controlled Substances Act: Schedule I classification means that any “manufacturing, possession, sale or use of marijuana” is a federal crime, and the conflict between federal and state laws cause issues with respect to criminal liability for insurance providers.

Brick-and-mortar retailers have a job to do: attract customers and to display products so that they sell and can be replaced with more. In that way, cannabis dispensaries are no different from jewelry, clothing or cookware outlets. In Montlcair, RHG Architecture + Design is figuring out how cannabis dispensaries should look and feel, while adhering to state-by-state requirements.

“For decades, our federal government has waged a 'War on Drugs' that has unfairly impacted low-income communities and communities of color,” said Sen. Cory Booker.

The operator of one of New Jersey's original six medical sites is opening its second outpost in the state, and 107th nationwide, in addition to its second Garden State cultivation facility.