recreational marijuana

NJ to miss another deadline for recreational weed sales

Even though New Jersey's eventually legal products will theoretically only be sold to adults, they could and likely will find their way into the hands of younger residents.

The majority of owners and employees at entry-level microbusinesses must be from the town or neighboring town of where the business would be located.

The new Institute for Cannabis Research, Policy, & Workforce Development aims to inform public health officials and create jobs under New Jersey's newly legalized recreational marijuana marketplace.

In November, we will decide who will be in the White House for the next four years, and in New Jersey, recreational marijuana remains on the ballot. Yet this election cycle has not dominated our lives like in 2016.

A proposed constitutional amendment will be before voters next November, after it barely achieved the needed three-fifths supermajority in the Legislature.

Supporters of marijuana legalization outnumbered opponents, as the Legislature held two public hearings in advance of Monday votes on a ballot question.

It's not clear when, or if, the Legislature will vote again.

In a survey from the New Jersey Society of CPAs, 53 percent said the drug should be legalized for recreational use — a move Governor-elect Phil Murphy said he'd make within 100 days of taking office in January.

Yesterday I cited an article our Kevin McArdle had written as to the plan to raise the tax rate on e-cigarettes, which would be brought in line to reflect the tax on regular cigarettes. If the idea of smoking the e-cigarette is all about replacing the regular cigarette, the dangers of which are already documented, then doesn’t it follow that were we to make the taxes the same on e-cigarettes, one