While New Jersey has touted the now 500-plus conditional licenses approved for cannabis sales — not a single store has opened, beyond medical dispensary expansions.
From the day of its launch, Apr. 21, through June, the recreational weed market delivered $4.6 million in tax revenue to the state, based on $79,698,831 in total sales.
Li Fan Feng is charged with intent to distribute after Bergen County investigators stopped his vehicle in Ridgefield and found 420 pounds of marijuana, prosecutors say.
The state is working through nearly 1,200 license applications for marijuana businesses. About one-fourth have conditional approval, none have final OK.
The Apothecarium in Lodi is open for medical and recreational business along Route 17 — next door to the strip club that was the "Bada Bing" in the iconic HBO series.
The number of New Jersey dispensaries expanding beyond medical marijuana patients, to include adult use cannabis, has been slowly on the rise since spring.