Top Five Wholesale sells THC edibles branded the same as the candymaker's Nerds and Trolli products, which the lawsuit alleges is likely to cause consumer confusion.
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Green bargaining
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.
Read More »A decision two years in the making: CRC announces winners of 2019 RFA
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.
Read More »Nearly built Acreage production facility severely damaged in Sewell
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."
Read More »Curaleaf opens Bordentown dispensary
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.
Read More »After Cannabis Regulatory Commission releases regs, some questions remain
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.
Read More »McWhite appointed D&I director for NJCRC
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.
Read More »MSO TerrAscend Corp. acquires additional 12.5% stake in TerrAscend NJ
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.
Read More »Cannabist dispensary opens in Deptford
Columbia Care now operates in 12 states, with a third New Jersey location expected to debut by the shore in the fourth quarter.
Read More »Saving green
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.
Read More »Creating calm within regulations
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.
Read More »Booker, others draft federal cannabis legalization bill
“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.
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